I don't own a Beomaster 5 but I do know a few things about storage devices so maybe I can help.

If you are cloning the drive sector-by-sector there is no need to format it in advance, this is because the filesystem (which is what formatting creates) will be copied over too.  There issues with cloning the drive this way, for example if the original drive was 500GB and the new one is 1TB, you may still be limited to 500TB usable space (because the original filesystem was only 500GB in size).

It is more likely that the cloner is unable (or refusing) to copy because the drives are of a different capacity.  Other things that could be coming into play include block size (the HDD was almost certainly 512K, the SSD is probably 8K).  Many older devices have problems with drives that report > 512K block size.  The Beomaster could be such as device.

I did write a response but it seems the stupid forums lost it.  I'll try again tomorrow.

I have tried many different cloning software, the best result  from EaseUS - the drive worked for few days.

The problem must be in the drive Samsung 256G or 1TB for sure will fail, even doing restore. Reading in the forums, some say that only Crucial MX100 500G works with B&O BM5 - I do not have one and do not want to spend few hundreds to try.

My problem is that my BM5 gets sluggish after while, this can be fix by going to Windows and defragmenting the files, but  is troublesome.

Regards

Makes sense. EaseUS cloner has an option to clone "sector by sector" and this is probably why drive lasted working for a while.

Hi Andy

Thank you for the advice. It looks as the problem is getting too serious for my knowledge in computers. I will try to get support from a local specialist - as you mentioned it has not much to do with B&O, but Windows XP.

cheers Rudolf