SDD INTALLATION

gonzalopabloandres · November 14, 2018

Hi there, i've purchased a Samsung 970 EVO, so I want to put it in my laptop, an Asus VivobookPro n580vd, this are the laptop specs:

Intel i7 7700HQ
8 gb ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
1 TB HDD

So I made the research and my system has the m.2 socket free and supports NVMe, so i bought the SSD. The thing is after I put the new SSD in the socket I don't know what to do, so the only thing I can do is format the drive in NTFS format, after that I want to install the driver from Samsung webpage, but after to choose the lenguage it shows up this messege "Samsung NVM Express Device is not connected. Connect the Device and try again", that is weird because after put a format in the drive, this appears in My PC, and I can put archives in there.

In the end I have readed that maybe migrate the stuff from one drive to another is maybe not the best, more if my ssd is only 250 GB, so one options is make a fresh installation of windows on the SSD, and after that save some valuable files for the old HDD and format it as a storage unit, but here is my question, how do I set the SSD as a booteable disk if I can't install the drivers and the motherboard doesb't recognize it to make it booteable, I have read that I should disconnect the HDD, or change the sata mode to AHCI, but I don't quite end to understand it.

This should work? --> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install-winpc/clean-install-of-windows-10-os-on-new-ssd-best/9186ae98-b2b4-4b7a-b3ff-0b053ce2d1c9

and if works how do I install windows there? from an usb? o can I put some autobooteable file into SSD?

PLEASE HELP :(

keskparane · November 14, 2018

Well if your BIOS currently doesn't support boot to your SSD then I think just leave the boot sector on your HDD. You will hardly notice any difference since it will pass control over to the SSD so quickly.

So I think just install fresh Windows then use backup to transfer files to SSD. Then go through and check all drivers.

After that I believe you can safely delete the contents of the old Windows partition (I would double check this though just to make sure it's not reading some small boot file from the old C partition.) Just make sure not to delete the system partitions from the HDD.