HDD to SSD Very slow data migration speed

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duncaaaaaan

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Hi I just bought a Samsung SSD 500GB and I'm currently trying to migrate everything over to it but it's very slow, only 2 MB/s and it's been like this the last hour. At this rate it will take 51 hours. This can't be right?

My SSD is connected directly to the motherboard, I don't have a SATA usb adapter, would one of these speed it up?

 
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By hook or crook you must correct whatever problem(s) exist with your HDD boot drive so that the drive boots to the OS without incident and thereafter functions problem-free. When that is accomplished you can go ahead with the disk-cloning process to migrate the data from the HDD to the SSD. Everything else is conversation, OK?
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ArtPog

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Well, 51 hours is a trifle long. So what's the total amount of data you're cloning from the source disk?
Ordinarily the fastest speed one would get during a disk-cloning operation is when both source & destination drives are connected internally in the system as apparently yours is. You're not working with Win XP, are you?
 
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duncaaaaaan

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Nope I'm on Windows 10. It's now said cloning failed and recommended I restart and check disk. So i did and now everything is <Removed>, and I have to do a system restore. Total amount of data I'm migrating is a little over 300GB.

No idea what I have done wrong. Could defragging my HDD help?

 
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ArtPog

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1. Forget about defragmenting HDD.

2. In order to undertake a successful disk-cloning operation your source drive should be problem-free in that it boots to the Win 10 OS without any problems and then functions problem-free. Capiche?

3. If that is NOT the case and you're cloning garbage, garbage is what you'll get.

4. You infer that there are problems with your source drive. If that IS the case, you must correct them in order to carry out a successful disk-cloning operation. Otherwise you're just down there whistlin' Dixie. Capiche?
 
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And now windows 10 is stuck in the blue screen system restore loop. There was nothing particularly wrong with the HDD that I noticed, other than it was booting up a bit slow.

edit: so it seems that after the cloning failed and rebooting the computer, my OS has just completely disappeared, and I have absolutely no way of turning the computer on, it just says 'reboot or select proper boot device'.
 
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By hook or crook you must correct whatever problem(s) exist with your HDD boot drive so that the drive boots to the OS without incident and thereafter functions problem-free. When that is accomplished you can go ahead with the disk-cloning process to migrate the data from the HDD to the SSD. Everything else is conversation, OK?
 
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