Windows 10: SSD question

Samsung Magician isn't Win 10 ready.
Can I uninstall it? Will Win 10 properly manage my SSD without Magician?

Sometimes my PC will not shut down. It powers off, but a few seconds later reboots. I suspect Magician and Windows incompatibility.

Early reports of Win 10 is that it manages SSD's well. I also notice that under System / Power that Win defaulted to Balanced and Samsung, while available, wasn't checked.

I sense a dissconnect between Win 10 and my SSD, or at least Samsung Magician software.

:)

 

HDD to new SSD Question

I'm going to upgrade my laptop with a SSD along side my HDD which currently has windows 10 on it, or course. My question is, is it possible to move that version of windows 10 on the new SSD and boot it from there or do I just have to run a clean version
from the SSD?

 

HDD to new SSD Question

Hi Rodrick, I am Rob, a volunteer and a 10 time and dual award MVP specializing in Windows troubleshooting and Bluescreen analysis. Please remember as volunteers we are not responsible for the development of Windows or the computer hardware and drivers.

You can transfer a System Image or do a Clean Install.

How to Create a Full-Disk Backup of Your PC with Macrium Reflect

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/7363/macrium-re...

A Clean Install then it would be activated with the Digital Entitlement.

How to Prepare Bootable Install Media for Windows 10 - DVD, USB or SD Card

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

Start fresh with a clean installation of Windows 10

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-downlo...

Clean Install Windows 10

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki...

Please let us know the results and if you need further assistance.

 

1. Magician is still good to have for your SSD's firmware updates, it also provides SMART(Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)information, and you cam check the status of the disk(AHCI on or what "Optimization settings you are currently using) You can right click the system tray icon and remove it from start up if you wish(what I did), but yes you can uninstall it if you so wish.

2. Check your Advanced Power settings in Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options




3. Windows 10 has Optimize drives to force Trim or does it automatically after approximately 28 days.

4. I don't understand what you mean here*Confused

 

You do not need Samsungs software to get the most out of your SSD. Windows as everything it needs built in.

 

Just ignore Samsung magician, it's a complete waste of time and very irritating utility IMHO.

 

With the magician software you can enable Rapid mode, which isn't available currently without some err tweaking of the registry.

Rapid mode takes a small section of the ssd and makes it a cache for the ssd much larger than the ram cache they have and uses that to increase speeds to 1000mb/s + read/write.

 

How do you see that Magician is not Win 10 ready? I have Magician 4.6 and it seems to run normally under Win 10. I only run it when I want to check things, I don't use "run at boot".

 

I will not be installing it until it states it works with Windows 10.

 

I have it running on two Win10 machines. No problems with here.

 

Thank for everybody's help, but I am still confused:
Per this screen shot Magician 4.6 isn't recognizing Win 10. Rapid Mode isn't working and the OS is not Recognized.




And under Control Panel / Power Options I see this




Windows gives me a Samsung High Performance option.

I'm not sure if Windows is trying to use Magician's settings, or is this a Windows option.

 

That's just the Power Settings you can create with it.

 

But the settings don't agree. Concerning the Sleep and Hybernation settings, The Magician settings don't match the Windows settings. I don't think Magician 4.6 is accurately modifying Windows 10. At least with my install.

This is why I'm zeroing in on Magician as a possible explanation for my shut down problem.

 

Try changing to normal High Performance with these settings:

 

I just booted 5 times and all went well.
What I did was delete all accounts but my own. ( that was ok because the other accounts haven't been used)
not sure this worked, but I did notice when I went to delete one account, Windows stopped me. Windows said that account was logged in. Could be an old left over from an improper shut down in Win 7. But I got it deleted.

So far, five shut downs without errors.