Samsung Evo 850 Pro - Cannot using over provisioning?

Mikoyan

Mikoyan

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Hi all,

Having an issue on this drive, when loading Samsung Magician if I select the Over Provisioning it just errors with:

Magician could not complete the operation. You can try to set the OP Manually using [Computer Management - Disk Management - Shrink Volume]

I have tried the shrink but it just chops the OS partition in two and errors exactly the same. Used OP on the 840 no issues...

Any ideas?:)
 
when you try and to the shrink manually using disk management what error does it give you?

i had to do it manually on my 840 to get it working, 23.29GB and then the software started working.

when it errors manually does it still shrink the partition or does it not?
 
Thanks ED, after your post I went back into Disk Manager so a 17GB partition which wasnt created by windows...I deleted it and then re-scanned the SSD using Magician...it then allowed me to OP! :)

Cheers for your help!
 
not a problem the partition needs to be unallocated and just left there before the software will pick it up but once done it should be good to go :)
 
Cheers, wierd what the other partition was and where it was created before deletion..other thing I did was update Magician from 4.4 to 4.5 but honestly not sure on the ordering but hey ho...its working now :D
 
yeah the main thing is that its working. its a shame as 24GB odd is a fair bit to loose when you only get a 250GB drive.

I wasn't aware of this before I brought my SSD but hey I just need to keep an eye with whats installed lol
 
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