How to: Solve Samsung Data Migration Cloning Failed 00001 [ffffffff]

• Samsung Data Migration reports cloning failed 00001[ffffffff]
• How to fix Samsung Data Migration cloning failed error?
• Alternative to Samsung Data Migration software
• Wrap things up

Samsung Data Migration reports cloning failed 00001[ffffffff]

“Try to clone my 500GB hard drive to a Samsung 250 850 EVO SSD via Samsung Data Migration software, but I only get an error message: cloning failed -00001[ffffffff]. My computer is Dell Inspiron and it is running Windows 10. Is there anyone can tell me how can I clone my 500GB hard drive to Samsung 250GB SSD successfully? Thanks!”

How to fix Samsung Data Migration cloning failed error?

It is difficult to find out what is the exact factor of Samsung Data Migration cloning failed 00001[ffffffff] error, but you can try some simple and common solutions given below:

1. Delete all unnecessary data and uninstall needless applications on the original hard drive. If the source disk is HDD, defrag it.

2. Run chkdsk on the source hard drive and target Samsung SSD to check whether there is bad sector on them.

3. If your source hard drive is BitLocker encrypted, decrypt BitLocker before cloning: Go to Control Panel > System and Security>BitLocker Drive Encryption, locate the drive that you want to decrypt, and click on Turn off BitLocker. After cloning, you can choose to encrypt it.

4. Disable antivirus software to see whether you can clone successfully. After cloning, you can enable the program.

5. Reboot your computer and shrink or extend system drive.

Alternative to Samsung Data Migration software

Or try to employ another data migration tool like to clone hard drive to Samsung SSD. AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional is highly recommended due to highlights listed as follows:

✔ It can clone BitLocker-encrypted hard drive without unlocking through the sector-by-sector clone method.
✔ It allows you to align SSD partitions to improve SSD’s performance during the cloning process.
✔ It is capable of cloning hard drive to Samsung SSD and other SSDs belong to different brands.

A detailed guide on cloning hard drive to Samsung SSD

Now, download AOMEI Partition Assistant; connect Samsung SSD to Windows based computer and make sure it can be detected; then see how to use it to clone hard drive.

Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, click "Clone" in the main interface and select "Clone Disk".

Step 2. Choose the hard disk that you need to clone as the source disk and click "Next".

Step 3. Select the destination disk to store the data on the source disk, and then click "Next".

Step 4. Then, you can check the source and destination disk in the next window or change to “Sector to Sector clone”, and click the "Confirm" button to continue if there is no problem.

Here, you can also click the "Settings" button to adjust the partition size on the destination disk or tick "4k alignment" to improve the reading and writing speed of SSD if the target disk is an SSD drive.

Step 5. At last, click "Apply" and "Proceed" in the main interface to start cloning the hard drive.

★Tips:

Clone Disk Quickly method requires that the capacity of the target disk not smaller than the used space on the source disk; Sector-by-Sector Clone method demands that the size of the destination hard drive larger than or equal to the size of the source disk.

During this process, all data will be erased on the destination hard drive, thus you can backup necessary files in advance.

AOMEI Partition Assistant also allows you to migrate OS related partition only, extend C drive, split partition, format 64GB USB to FAT32 and etc.

Wrap things up

When Samsung Data Migration cloning failed 00001 [ffffffff] occurs, you can try the methods mentioned above to fix this error. Or you can turn to an alternative to Samsung Data Migration to complete cloning.