Samsung 970 EVO

[TheMarsMartian]

I'm going to pick up the Samsung 970 EVO as my new boot drive for my pc. Does anyone have any tips on how to transfer my Windows installation onto the new SSD without transferring everything else? Any tips on how to set it up and optimize it for the system? Any help would be appreciated thank you.

[jared404]

4 minutes ago, TheMarsMartian said:

I'm going to pick up the Samsung 970 EVO as my new boot drive for my pc. Does anyone have any tips on how to transfer my Windows installation onto the new SSD without transferring everything else? Any tips on how to set it up and optimize it for the system? Any help would be appreciated thank you.

Do you want to do a clean install and just transfer your activation?

[Spotty]

Best practice is to download the windows 10 installer and install a fresh copy of Windows on to the SSD. Windows should activate itself automatically based off the hardware information it stores, or it should do it once you log in to your windows live user account.

[TheMarsMartian]

Just now, crashahotrod said:

Do you want to do a clean install and just transfer your activation?

No, what i was thinking of doing is finding some software that could just transfer the windows install to the new drive and nothing else but i guess that would be classified as a fresh install.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, TheMarsMartian said:

No, what i was thinking of doing is finding some software that could just transfer the windows install to the new drive and nothing else but i guess that would be classified as a fresh install.

samgsung has cloning software included

[TheMarsMartian]

1 minute ago, Spotty said:

Best practice is to download the windows 10 installer and install a fresh copy of Windows on to the SSD. Windows should activate itself automatically based off the hardware information it stores, or it should do it once you log in to your windows live user account.

Well the thing with that is i would still have windows on the hard drive I already have so I would have 2 windows installs on one pc

[TheMarsMartian]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

samgsung has cloning software included

Okay, thank you!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, TheMarsMartian said:

Well the thing with that is i would still have windows on the hard drive I already have so I would have 2 windows installs on one pc

Thats fine, you can delete the windows on the hdd later on.

[TheMarsMartian]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Thats fine, you can delete the windows on the hdd later on.

Alright, thanks for the help!

[Spotty]

2 minutes ago, TheMarsMartian said:

Well the thing with that is i would still have windows on the hard drive I already have so I would have 2 windows installs on one pc

That's fine. Windows doesn't really care since it can detect unique information about your hardware and realises that you're using it on the same PC... Though if you change hardware such as the motherboard as well it might not activate.

Once you have windows set up on the new 970 evo, you can copy off any files you want off the old boot drive and back up and important data and then wipe the drive to remove the old windows installation from it. Then you can use it as a general storage drive for whatever you may need to store on it.