What to Do If Samsung Data Migration Cannot Select Source Disk?

Samsung Data Migration Cannot Select Drive

Samsung Data Migration (SDM), is a specialized data migration tool that enables you to easily migrate all the content including the current operating system, app, and user data quickly, safely, and easily from the existing disk like HDD to a new Samsung SSD. For Samsung users, Samsung Data Migration is a good cloning software.

However, you are not allowed to change the source disk when transferring data. This issue has been talked about by many users on some forums. Besides, this tool doesn’t allow you to select the target disk. You may find Samsung Data Migration not detecting SSD although the hard drive can be recognized in Disk Management.

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Why Samsung Data Migration Cannot Select Drive

Why Samsung Data Migration cannot change source disk or target disk? If you read Samsung SSD Data Migration User Manual, you can find the answer under System Requirements and Limitations.

When you see the Source Drive item, you can see the requirement – HDD or SSD with a supported operating system installed. This means this tool can only clone a system disk to another Samsung SSD and it doesn’t support cloning a data disk, so you cannot change the source disk to a disk without an operating system installed on it.

Besides, you can see all the supported target disks by Samsung Data Migration and these drives are all the Samsung SSDs. That is, you can only transfer data to an SSD from the listed Samsung series. Other brands of SSD and other unmentioned Samsung SSDs are not supported. If your target drive is not detected by Samsung Data Migration, you cannot change it.

Use MiniTool ShadowMaker for Data Migration

As mentioned above, you know Samsung Data Migration cannot select drive including source and target disk. In addition, this tool has many other requirements and limitations. You can find more details from this user manual. Besides, this tool always works improperly, for example, Samsung Data Migration cloning failed, Samsung Data Migration stuck at 0%, 99%, or 100%, etc.

To clone a hard drive or migrate the entire disk data without any limitations, we strongly recommend using professional hard drive cloning software. Here, MiniTool ShadowMaker is a good option.

This software offers a feature called Clone Disk that allows you to clone a system disk or data disk to any hard drive which can be an SSD or HDD of any brand. That is, you can select any hard drive you want and all disks including Samsung, SanDisk, Intel, Western Digital, and more are supported. You can do this operation in Windows 11/10/8/7 with simple steps. Besides, MiniTool ShadowMaker supports cloning a dynamic disk with only simple volumes.

To clone your hard drive, firstly download MiniTool ShadowMaker and install it on your PC. Just click the following button to get this tool.

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Then, follow the step-by-step guide to start disk cloning without encountering the Samsung Data Migration not working issue.

Step 1: Open MiniTool ShadowMaker and click Keep Trial to go on.

Step 2: Go to the Tools page to click Clone Disk.

Step 3: Choose a source disk and target disk. Note that make sure no important data is saved on the target drive, or else, data loss will occur.

Step 4: Then, start the cloning process. Depending on the data size, the time is uncertain.

After finishing the disk cloning, you can shut down the PC, open the computer case, remove the original disk, and put the SSD in the place. Then, the machine can run from your SSD.

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Conclusion

From this post, you know why Samsung Data Migration cannot select drive including the source drive and target drive. To clone a hard drive to another one easily without any limitations, MiniTool ShadowMaker is a good assistant. Just get this tool rather than using Samsung Data Migration.

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