Samsung Laptop Recovery Partition Windows 7

I bought two of these for two different older Win10 computers with spinning hard drives that were degrading, making the computers very slow. First was my wife's nearly 9 year old laptop. First attempt at cloning drive failed because the computer shut itself off during the process. Be sure to go into power settings and disable automatic shutdown or sleep mode. Once I did that the cloning succeeded. Second PC was a desktop with a 250GB spinning drive. The SSD is 1 TB. Using the cloning wizard, it wanted to create a 217 GB Windows partition (same size as it was on the spinning drive) and it wanted to blow up the recovery partition to well over 700 GB. Well, that's stupid! It should have kept the recovery partition the same size and increased the Windows partition as much as possible. So I halted the cloning and restarted it in manual mode, which allows changing the partition sizes. In manual mode the cloning software made the correct suggestion: it kept the recovery partition and two small mysterious partitions the same sizes that they were on the hard drive, and it increased the Windows partition to 871 GB. So I accepted those sizes and did the cloning. Why couldn't the wizard have figured that out? Bottom line - pay attention during the cloning process to make sure the wizard isn't doing something dumb. Both computers are now running much faster than before. My wife is delighted with her new laptop. She says it is now super-fast. B&H sale price was great with free two day delivery.

I bought it to upgrade our Samsung laptop. It fits and I was able to install Windows 10 with no problems.

windows 8 recognize automactly onluy you have to do the partition and format and worl flawesly

..first 24 hours..used only 7%..couldn't ask for anything better...

worked like a charm created 2tb partition for me and 2tb partition for wife and did a system image for both of us. no problems at all on windows 11 build 22533.

I upgraded my Windows 7 machine from a 1TB to a 2TB hard drive it was easy to install. I used Clonezilla Live to transfer an image of my old drive to the new one and then expanded the 1TB partition to a 2TB partition using AOMEI Partition Assistant pro.

Drive comes with software for managing it on Windows and (I think) Apple, but I deleted the partition(s), threw a BTRFS on it, and it was happy as a clam.

Using the Mac Disk Utility, I was able to easily create both a Mac and a Windows partition to back-up raw footage and other video files. I always trust Western Digital and this product will probably not let me down either. It's sleek, quiet, and extremely fast with the USB 3.0. Would definitely recommend to anyone!

I brought this internal SSD for external storage. The set up was easy and I was able to partition the drive with Windows 10.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] It is indeed a great high speed SSD with affordable price, however I would suggest to Samsung to make their SSD a little over the listed data size as I bought 2 TB I only got 1.8 TB so I lost 200 GB! Also if Samsung can improve their cloning software (Data Migration/Magician) as in my case it was not able to clone my SSD 100% and was missing on health partition and OEM/Recovery partition