Samsung 960 EVO NVMe 500GB M.2 SSD Boot Drive?

[ptr1959w]

Hi there,
I was wondering, how I can configure the SSD Drive to make it the boot drive? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. My system is an MSI GS63VR 6RF Stealth Pro Laptop and Win 10

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

I'm guessing you bought a 960 Evo 500GB drive and want to install it and make it your boot drive?

In order to do that, you'll have to clone your other boot drive to the 960 Evo or install Windows directly onto it. Along with that, you'll need to enter the UEFI/BIOS and configure it as the primary boot device.

If you want to clone the other boot drive, hopefully someone else with experience doing that will be along.

 

[ptr1959w]

Hi,
Thanks for the help and reply. I haven't bought the SSD yet. I was thinking about cloning the boot drive with Macrium Reflect, if I can use that program?

 

[UsandThem]

Hi,
Thanks for the help and reply. I haven't bought the SSD yet. I was thinking about cloning the boot drive with Macrium Reflect, if I can use that program?

Samsung's free Data Migration software works great for cloning your existing drive onto the new Samsung SSD. I've used it many times over the years with no problems.

 

[ptr1959w]

The old drive is an old ssd drive I think its an 2080 or something like that where do I put the new one that is Samsung 960 when i'm migrating to the new one? I hope i'm not confusing you.

 

[UsandThem]

The old drive is an old ssd drive I think its an 2080 or something like that where do I put the new one that is Samsung 960 when i'm migrating to the new one? I hope i'm not confusing you.

You would install the 960 EVO in your M.2 slot, run the Data Migration software, and once it is finished you will shut down your PC. After restarting it, you would go into your motherboard's BIOS and select the 960 EVO as your new boot device, and save that. After you boot into your PC, you can format your old drive and then use it for data (or remove it all together if you don't want to use it after shutting down your PC a few steps back).

Easy peesy mac and cheesy

 

[UsandThem]

Oh, and should add that most NVMe drives run hot, so putting them in a laptop will cause them to run hot, and it might throttle it's performance to lower it's temps. Personally, I would never install a performance NVMe drive in such an air-restricted area. But to each their own......

 

[ptr1959w]

I was just going to say that I have a laptop (MSI GS63VR 6RF Stealth Pro Laptop) that I wanted to put the SSD into. I haven't bought the SSD yet.