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   On Sun, 1/4/2026 8:53 PM, Jeff Barnett wrote:   
   > On 1/4/2026 6:38 PM, Alan K. wrote:   
   >> On 1/4/26 4:47 PM, Steve wrote:   
   >>> The holidays are over and I should have time to continue the project I   
   >>> was working on 2 weeks ago.   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm trying to switch to my new Samsung 870 EVO SATA 2.5 inch drive. The   
   >>> paper in the box said to use Samsung Magician to clone the data. I'm   
   >>> starting to believe that it doesn't work with a SATA drive!   
   >>>   
   >>> People suggested I use a different cloning tool. I dismissed that idea   
   >>> because, certainly, Samsung Magician would work after I got my computer   
   >>> to recognize the new drive. Well I did that. It's now showing on File   
   >>> Explorer as drive (J:) and I have formatted it. I tested it by copying a   
   >>> file with several pictures inside to (J:). It went right in and the   
   >>> pictures opened just fine. I formatted again to empty it.   
   >>>   
   >>> I looked at you tube videos about using Samsung Magician. They all   
   >>> showed a ssd that did not look like my SATA drive.  Samsung Magician   
   >>> seems to have 2 ways to get to "Data Migration". One way pops up a   
   >>> message that the drive isn't compatible. I originally feared that it was   
   >>> warning me that the new drive wasn't compatible with my computer. Going   
   >>> in the other way, it shows my C: drive as the source drive but it   
   >>> prompts me to connect the Samsung SSD. It doesn't see it even though it   
   >>> IS there and it works.   
   >>>   
   >>> What cloning software is going to work with my SATA SSD?   
   >>   
   >> Will macrium work to clone.   
   >> Worse comes to worse, make an image of C:  then re-image J: with that   
   image.   
   >   
   > SSD have more sever alignment issues than do HD. If you are using, ask them   
   > whether your version of there product will do what you want. I think they   
   have   
   > forums. I'm a paid user and find them to always give me intelligent feedback   
   > when I contact them.   
      
   Partitions have been 1MB (1048576 byte) aligned starting with Vista.   
      
   WinXP was MSDOS CHS aligned, so the numbers were divisible by 63, which is   
   a bad choice for an SSD (or for that matter, for 512e drives with internal 4K   
   sectors).   
      
   Macrium does the right thing. Macrium, if you click the back button, you can   
   use the partition properties, and it actually has an alignment option. Notice   
   how it is showing Vista right now. Vista = Vista/W7/W8/W8.1/W10/W11 alignment.   
      
   https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/download/attachments/4194325/i   
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      Paul   
      
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