IFW 3.06a Samsung 850 EVO success backup and restore
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 12:01 am
All,
I bought a new Samsung 850 EVO to be my Windows 10 Pro C drive.
I am posting today to help others.
I resolved my issue and was able to backup and restore, and boot successfully from the Samsung 850 EVO SSD with IFW 3.06a.
PROBLEM:
I used Samsung Data Migration to migrate to the SSD from my system runing on the HDD.
I then imaged with IFW 3.06a and restored with IFW 3.06a TBWinRE.
The restore always froze after a small number of MB and the expected time to completion climbed up.
I read all posts available on the forum and internet and saw some folks with the same issue.
RESOLUTION:
1) Backup with disable TRIM.
2) Backup with Align on 1 MiB boundary.
3) Restore with Align on 1 Mib boundary
Validate byte by byte worked on the backup despite the warning of the Samsung SSD does not support DRAT.
Disable TRIM during backup prevented this issue. Disable TRIM is mentioned in the IFW documentation as being good for SSDs.
Use of Disable TRIM should be encouraged in the KB articles and posts about migrating to a SSD, backing up restoring to a SSD.
On a 500 GB SSD, restore took ~5 min with IFL 3.06a boot disk and ~ 15 min with IFW 3.06a.
I have been a long time happy user of TB Unlimited IFW and am happy to be able to use it with the Samsung 850 SSD.
I bought a new Samsung 850 EVO to be my Windows 10 Pro C drive.
I am posting today to help others.
I resolved my issue and was able to backup and restore, and boot successfully from the Samsung 850 EVO SSD with IFW 3.06a.
PROBLEM:
I used Samsung Data Migration to migrate to the SSD from my system runing on the HDD.
I then imaged with IFW 3.06a and restored with IFW 3.06a TBWinRE.
The restore always froze after a small number of MB and the expected time to completion climbed up.
I read all posts available on the forum and internet and saw some folks with the same issue.
RESOLUTION:
1) Backup with disable TRIM.
2) Backup with Align on 1 MiB boundary.
3) Restore with Align on 1 Mib boundary
Validate byte by byte worked on the backup despite the warning of the Samsung SSD does not support DRAT.
Disable TRIM during backup prevented this issue. Disable TRIM is mentioned in the IFW documentation as being good for SSDs.
Use of Disable TRIM should be encouraged in the KB articles and posts about migrating to a SSD, backing up restoring to a SSD.
On a 500 GB SSD, restore took ~5 min with IFL 3.06a boot disk and ~ 15 min with IFW 3.06a.
I have been a long time happy user of TB Unlimited IFW and am happy to be able to use it with the Samsung 850 SSD.