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Podrake
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So I got my WD Blue SN550 1TB NVME M.2 SSD and I already have a MX500 500GB SSD and 1TB HDD and I was wondering if there was anyway for me to install windows on my m.2 with out a USB Drive

 

Thanks in advance,

 

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Burn a disc.

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Yes use a dvd, external hdd,... basically any storage medium it can burn the iso to.

 

Why don't you want to use a usb stick however? That is by far the easiest. If you don't have one a 8gb usb stick costs barely anything

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1 minute ago, jaslion said:

basically any storage medium it can burn the iso to.

 

 If you don't have one a 8gb usb stick costs barely anything

So could I burn the iso on to my current hard drive and use it to install windows on to my m.2?

 

also my card has expired and I have to wait 1-2 weeks for my bank to send me a new one

 

 

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If you already have Windows installed an are looking to reinstall to another drive- another option you have is to partition your HDD/SSD with a little 8gb space, assign it a drive letter and a volume. Using an application like "ISO to USB" and a Windows 10 ISO you can burn Windows 10 to that partition and boot from it to install / reinstall to another drive.

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4 minutes ago, Podrake said:

So could I burn the iso on to my current hard drive and use it to install windows on to my m.2?

 

also my card has expired and I have to wait 1-2 weeks for my bank to send me a new one

 

 

Yeah you can do that. Keep in mind all data will be lost.

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3 minutes ago, VectorTech said:

If you already have Windows installed an are looking to reinstall to another drive- another option you have is to partition your HDD/SSD with a little 8gb space, assign it a drive letter and a volume. Using an application like "ISO to USB" and a Windows 10 ISO you can burn Windows 10 to that partition and boot from it to install / reinstall to another drive.

Just download the iso through the windows media creation tool and then use rufus.

 

This can work but often not as a bootable usb stick tends to not like partitions.

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You can do it with PXE but it requires a second machine and some networking knowledge, its not that hard though.

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