Q:“I bought the Samsung 840 Evo SSD upgrade package, and after installing the software, when I opened the data migration icon, a warning popped out saying “cannot locate a disk with a Windows OS installation” I just want to migrate the data and OS from HDD to SSD, and replace HHD with SSD on my laptop. Is there any alternatives to achieve the goal?”
 

 
Are you experiencing such a similar case? Do you know what can cause Samsung Data Migration cannot locate a disk with a Windows OS installation? As a matter of fact, this error only comes up if your disk is set to dynamic. Is it possible to fix this issue? Of course.
 

How to Solve Cannot Locate a Disk Error?

 
Dynamic disk is the main factor to this issue. You can check your OS disk in Windows Disk Management to make sure it is basic but not dynamic. Otherwise, you are unable to use Samsung Data Migration. Well then, the best way is to convert the dynamic disk to basic disk.
 
Disk Management can be the first choice. However, this free tool requires you to do this conversion after deleting all the volumes, which can lead to data loss. But, it is a piece of good news that the third-party partition manager called MiniTool Partition Wizard. It is designed to do disk and partition management well, such as resize/extend/shrink/format partition, clone disk, convert GPT to MBR and vice versa, migrate OS and more. Besides, it enables you to convert dynamic disk to basic disk without data loss to fix cannot locate a disk issue.
 
Step 1: Get the Professional Edition of this partition management tool on your computer.
Step 2: Choose the target disk, and select “Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk” from the right-click menu.
 

 
Step 3: Execute this change by hitting “Apply”.
 
MiniTool Partition Wizard can easily fix Samsung Data Migration cannot locate a disk with a Windows OS installation error by the conversion from dynamic disk to basic.
 
Besides, this dedicated partition magic can also be used to migrate OS from HDD to SSD or clone a disk. In the example at the beginning of this post, this user wanted to use Samsung Data Migration to do OS migration but cannot locate a disk error happened.
 
Thus, just launch MiniTool Partition Wizard to perform OS migration operation to fix Samsung Data Migration not working. Then, click “Migrate OS to SSD/HD” feature in the toolbar and do as the following instructions show.