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

Limitations of Samsung Data Migration (SDM): The source or destination disk cannot be changed

Samsung Data Migration (SDM) is a convenient data migration tool designed for Samsung users to quickly and securely migrate operating systems, applications, and user data from existing hard drives, such as HDDs, to new Samsung SSDs. However, SDM has some limitations: it does not allow changes to the source disk and only supports migration of data to a specific Samsung SSD family. Many users have reflected this problem on the forums, and SDM cannot detect certain SSDs, even if these hard disks are recognized in disk management.

Why can't Samsung Data Migration select a drive?

According to the system requirements and limitations in the Samsung SSD data migration user manual, SDM can only clone the system disk that supports the operating system to another Samsung SSD. It does not support cloning data disks, so you cannot change the source disk to a disk with the OS that is not installed. Additionally, SDM only supports specific Samsung SSD series listed as target disks, and none of other brands of SSDs or unlisted Samsung SSDs are supported. If your target drive is not detected by SDM, it cannot be changed.

MiniTool ShadowMaker: More powerful disk cloning tool

Given the many limitations and potential issues of SDM (such as failed cloning, stuck at 0%, 99%, or 100%, etc.), we strongly recommend using professional hard disk cloning software such as MiniTool ShadowMaker.

MiniTool ShadowMaker provides the "Clone Disk" feature, allowing you to clone system disks or data disks to any hard disk, whether SSDs or HDDs, regardless of their brand (including Samsung, SanDisk, Intel, Western Digital, etc.). This operation is easily done on Windows 11/10/8/7 systems and supports cloning dynamic disks containing only simple volumes.

Steps to Using MiniTool ShadowMaker:

1. Download and install MiniTool ShadowMaker.
2. Open MiniTool ShadowMaker and click "Continue Trial".
3. Go to the Tools page and click Clone Disk.
4. Select the source disk and the destination disk. (Note: Make sure there is no important data on the target drive, otherwise data loss will occur.)
5. Start the cloning process. (The time required depends on the data size.)

After the cloning is complete, you can close the computer, open the chassis, remove the original disk, and place the SSD in its original place. The computer can then boot from your SSD.

Summarize

This article explains why Samsung Data Migration cannot select source and target disks. To easily and unlimitedly cloning hard drives to another hard drive, MiniTool ShadowMaker is a great choice. We recommend that you use MiniTool ShadowMaker instead of Samsung Data Migration.

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