Samsung 950 Pro M.2 release date

[Deders]

I am thinking of picking one up when I can. I currently run Windows 10 pro, but on an 850 Evo. Could I clone over to the NVMe drive and have it work, or would I need to do a clean install? Even if a clone was possible, would I want to if I wanted best performance on the new drive? Also, I did the free upgrade from Windows 7 Pro, would I have any issues from this?

Thanks.

Personally I'm looking forward to a fresh install after upgrading from 7. There were quite a few things, drivers mainly, that weren't quite right. I have a feeling that there could be an issue with NVMe on a non NVMe install, much like enabling AHCI on a non AHCI windows Vista/7 install.

I could be wrong but a fresh install would give me more peace of mind.

Have you used the Windows media creation tool to make a USB/DVD Win10 install source?

 

[Shmee]

Have you used the Windows media creation tool to make a USB/DVD Win10 install source?

Yes, that is actually how I did the upgrade. I had issues starting it from the windows update.

 

[larryccf]

I am thinking of picking one up when I can. I currently run Windows 10 pro, but on an 850 Evo. Could I clone over to the NVMe drive and have it work, or would I need to do a clean install? Even if a clone was possible, would I want to if I wanted best performance on the new drive? Also, I did the free upgrade from Windows 7 Pro, would I have any issues from this?

Thanks.

I'm not computer literate enough to give an absolute answer but as Deders posted, a fresh install would be best. I cloned my XP941 to a sata SSD (840 EVO) using EaseUS ToDo Backup, that i've been using since 2008 - i cloned twice and both times when i cloned it back to the XP941, i ended up having to use the windows DVD to "repair" the boot files - not sure why, but suspect with a transition to NVMe the problem or issues will be greater

fwiw