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How do I put my os to my Samsung 850 Evo?

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So I just bought the Samsung 850 Evo and I want to put my os on it. The computer is completely clean and I don't want to move anything from the HDD to the SSD. How do I go about to install the os on the SSD?

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It's the same as if you want to install it on any other drive.

Boot from your USB or CD, and select custom windows install.

Then select your SSD drive to install your windows on.

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You can make a bootable USB disk of windows, unplug your old HDD, then with the SSD installed you boot from the USB then launch the install screen then install windows on the SSD. Note there are some very technical things you should do like format the disk using GPT instead of MBR if the SSD's capacity is larger than 2TB or if you want to use the UEFI function of newer MOBOs. 

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7 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

It's the same as if you want to install it on any other drive.

Boot from your USB or CD, and select custom windows install.

Then select your SSD drive to install your windows on.

Ok great, also correct me if I'm wrong but on that same screen where you choose the drive to install the os you can also reformat drive like removes the old os from my HDD.

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Windows Media Creation tool.  It will handle the whole job just fine.

 

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5 minutes ago, Running Raptors said:

Ok great, also correct me if I'm wrong but on that same screen where you choose the drive to install the os you can also reformat drive like removes the old os from my HDD.

Yes but it always chooses MBR format and as i said if you want to use the UEFI function of the newer MOBOs then you will not get to use it.

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11 minutes ago, Running Raptors said:

Ok great, also correct me if I'm wrong but on that same screen where you choose the drive to install the os you can also reformat drive like removes the old os from my HDD.

If you reformat the old drive, not only will the old OS be gone but so will the data that's on it. 

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51 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

If you reformat the old drive, not only will the old OS be gone but so will the data that's on it. 

Yeah that's fine the old drive only has the os on it

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