Brandie Tarvin (10/13/2015)

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TomThomson (10/13/2015)

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Brandie Tarvin (10/13/2015)

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GilaMonster (10/13/2015)

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Put the keyboard down, pet the cat. Priorities!

Now she's hissing at me because I made the mistake of trying to move my other hand to the keyboard. And now she's off the lap and chewing cables to show how unhappy she is.

Sigh. I can't do anything right today.

Good news is that I got my Samsung Evo 1TB SSD the other day. Bad news is that I can't seem to get my Windows 7 Business 32 bit cloned to it for some reason. The drive just doesn't like me. Samsung magician doesn't want to recognize it from an external housing, which means I can't check for a firmware update to see if that will help.

POUT.

Is that an EVO 840 or an EVO 850? What sort of box have you put it in and how are you connecting that box to the computer? Aren't those SSDs supposed to be for internal use, not external? If you are using something other than SATA III - if for example your housing converts from SATA III to USB3 or (perish the thought, it would be pretty awful) to USB2 - can magician handle it?

EVO 850. I'm not using the drive as external. I'm just housing it in an external eSATA / SATA / IDE casing to do my cloning, then I'm going to plug it into the laptop. Magician wants to have the drive plugged INTO the laptop, which would cause all sorts of issues since nothing is on it yet. And I don't want to install an OS only to have the drive bricked if the firmware update doesn't work.

Samsung's data migration tool isn't recognizing the partitions I created (and aligned) via the Windows disk management tool. It's trying to clone across the entire drive. Which is frustrating. So I think I'm going to use the EaseUS Todo tool to do my cloning because it does recognize the partitions and just accept that there will be no firmware update prior to cloning.

If you need a magician update, just run Samsung Update - it should find any updates whether needed or not if it works the same way on Windows 7 as it does on Windows 8.1 and 10 - but then you have to tell it to install what its found.

I wish a Magician update would work, but I've found plenty of evidence that everyone is having this problem. Magician doesn't want to work without a direct SATA connection (even though the instructions clearly indicate that a connector would work, apparently it doesn't). So I guess I'm stuck.

Or has the cat chewed through the connecting cable? I used to have a cat that liked to dance on the keyboard (especially when I was trying to edit long and complicated half-yearly R&D progress reports to persuade the funding bodies to keep on paying, or doing my annual tax return) but never one that chewed computer cables.

Cat likes to chew on all sorts of cables, not just computer cables. We've gotten wire guards (that corrugated plastic stuff) to slip on everything that's exposed in the main house. She likes to sneak into the office though, which is less protected because the door is always closed. When she's on my lap, everything is fine. As soon as she starts chewing, though, she gets disinvited from the room. Sometimes forcibly, sometimes I trick her out with treats.

It took me a while to figure out the reason why my laptop power supplies kept dying (and I had to keep buying new ones) was that she chomped right through the cord in one bite. Once I figured that out, everything got a sheath and life has been much better since.