Samsung SSD Data Migration software only supports data migration between its own SSD products, it doesn’t perform full disk migration, along with other limitations, some user starts to looking for an alternative program, Partition Expert Migrate OS Wizard would like to help
Here’s the limitation page from the PDF official guide, some of the hight-lighted statements are the main reasons driven people to the alternative
Those limitations can be summarized to:
And it will take 18 steps to reach the final step if you don’t meet any error in the process.
Partition Expert Migrate OS wizard, the alternative program, however, has the following features:
And Partition Expert only takes 3 steps to migrate, easy to understand and operate
Samsung Data Migrate Software is more like a file-migrate, or file-cloner, it only deals with data on the source disk, it will scan the drive first and ask you to filter files to migrate, that’s why it takes longer time than other backup software, what’s more, it doesn’t migrate the Operating system, if you’re about to switch to a larger SSD, you’ll have to reinstall the OS
Macrorit Partition Expert Migrate OS wizard and Macrorit Disk Clone Wizard will clone the entire disk and make the target disk also bootable, our Migration program deals with both the operation system and the data, it’s the disk-level backup, thus it’s faster than file-level backup. And there’s also another function call Copy Volume available for users who just want to copy personal stuff from one drive to another
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