Solved: Samsung Data Migration Not Enough Space

Want to migrate data via Samsung Data Migration but be told “not enough space”? Here you can learn how to solve Samsung Data Migration not enough space problem quickly.

Posted by @Cherry December 17, 2024 Updated By @Cherry June 12, 2024

Scenario

“I just bought a Samsung 840 and tried to use their data migration software with a standard USB 2.0 external enclosure (it didn't come with the USB cable it's supposed to). It gave me the attached results. Does anyone know why it thinks 405GB (or 437 with the additional 32GB it requires) is greater than 465GB? Cause I was told Samsung Data Migration not enough space, and it tells me to delete files to make space.”

Error: Samsung Data Migration not enough space

Many Samsung users would meet problems during cloning with Samsung Data Migration. “Not enough space” is one of the errors that you may face. Well, what should you do when Samsung data migration cloning failed with this error?

Solution: How to fix Samsung Data Migration not enough space?

Samsung Data Migration (SDM) is a software that is designed as a simple solution for users who need to upgrade from their existing drive to their new Samsung SSD. It is an extremely simple tool for transferring over all existing files and programs from a current HDD or SSD to a new Samsung drive.

Although it allows you to clone a larger capacity drive to a smaller Samsung SSD, you may still receive the error “Samsung Data Migration not enough space”. Actually, many Samsung SSD users use Samsung Data Migration to transfer data but end up with various error codes, like “Not enough space”, “Target Disk has been disconnected”, etc. The Samsung data migration cloning failed.

Under this circumstance, you can change a disk cloning software to migrate data from your current hard drive to Samsung SSD/HDD more flexible. And here we highly recommend you AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional.

Samsung Data Migration alternative

AOMEI Partition Assistant is a professional disk cloning software that offers Windows users 3 methods to migrate data to Samsung, Kingston, Intel, SanDisk, Seagate, WD, or other brands SSD/HDD:

Migrate OS to SSD wizard: It will migrate Windows OS to SSD or HDD, after that, you can boot from the cloned SSD/HDD.

Disk Copy Wizard: It will copy all data and partitions on the hard drive to another SSD/HDD. If you are coping system disk, you can also boot from the cloned hard drive.

Partition Copy Wizard: It allows you to copy a single partition to another hard drive.

Besides, AOMEI Partition Assistant provides copy disk quickly, which allows you to clone larger hard drive to smaller SSD/HDD. Or you can choose sector-by-sector copy, which will make an exactly same disk.

Here we will introduce you how to use AOMEI Partition Assistant to migrate data from your current hard drive to your Samsung SSD.

Free download to have a try. Windows 10/8/7 is supported. If you are Windows Server users, you should use AOMEI Partition Assistant Server Edition.

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.

Conclusion

With AOMEI Partition Assistant, you won’t encounter the problem “Samsung Data Migration not enough space” or other error codes. The operation is easy. Besides cloning hard drive or migrate data, AOMEI Partition Assistant can also help you manage your hard drive, such as resize partition, delete partition, create partition, etc.