Over Provisioning is greyed out in Samsung Magician

[volkmaestro]

After last two updates of Samsung Magician i can't change over provisioning partition size. Can't even delete it.

And now i have 528MB recovery partition which wasn't there before.

Please help.

[pppm1112]

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@bolabuga wrote:

1 diskpart
2 list disk
3 select disk "x" (where x is the number of the disk you want)
4 list partition --> to see partitions
5 select parition x --> choose the recovery partition
6 delete partition override --> this will delete the selected recovery partition

You can, then, refresh overprovisioning, remove the unallocated overprovisioning, and configure it again, if you desire.

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Thanks alot man

[FitoUK]

I am unable to set up overprovisioning in spite of having 20% of the drive specifically unallocated. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

[woodsielord]

Same. It's been the same for ages. The diskpart trick doesn't work. Recreating and deleting a new OP doesn't work. 20% cannot be changed, cannot be cleared.

[Qodri]

Alternative solution that works for me

1) Type “advanced system settings” in search bar.

2) On system properties, go to advanced -> performance, click “Settings…”

3) On performance options, go to advanced -> click “Change….”

4) On virtual memory, uncheck “Automatically manage paging file size for all device”

5) Select “No Paging File” -> click Ok then Apply.

6) Restart your pc.

7) Check if you can set custom OP now.

[Freakshow 85]

This is annoying.  This USED To work... no matter what.  It just always gave me the ability to enable or disabled.  I don't know if it's because Samsung NEVER updates their software and I'm on W11 24H2 or what, but I've had the exact same Samsung Magician with no updates for... what, 2-3 years?  

Guess I'll just leave it off.   It's not like it gives any performance boost.  I just need to stay aware of how much memory I'm using on my 2TB Samsung Evo Plus, then.  It's just that I WANTED to throw a 10% provision in there and not worry about running out of space.  I mean, I have over 7TB of storage space on my PC, so I can move things around, but still.  

It's not like I'm the only one with this issue.

And what burns me up is that I'm a Samsung guy.  There are certain types of hardware that I ALWAYS aim for.  ASUS motherboards, ASUS GPUs when possible along with other Asus products.  And then Samsung for my phones, televisions and ANYTHING to do with memory when possible.  I always like to get Samsung memory on my RAM and I ALWAYS trust Samsung storage.  But this is ridiculous.  I don't want to overreact, because the hardware, itself, is top notch.  But why can't something as simple as provisioning work?  It USED to work.  I have plenty of free space for it to work.  

If Samsung 970/980/990 M.2 NVMEs weren't so fast, I'd just go with something else, but I like to have the best.  I may just end up moving to Kingston, Crucial, Corsair and MAYBE even PNY.  Seagate makes decent solid state storage, too.. unlike their horrendous HDDs.  Kingston has been around for decades, too, and make super reliable storage.

If you can't keep your software working, you can't keep updates rolling out, you can't release any Firmware, maybe ONCE every year or more, then yeah... 

[Freakshow 85]

I tried that and it didn't work for me.  I tried some other methods mentioned above that people said worked for them and it also didn't work for me.  I'm using around 900GB of my 2TB drive, too, so I don't think that's an issue, either.  

I feel like the software needs an update for Windows 24H2.