[SOLVED] Help windows nvme

[Dpciagne]

Hi guys I recently purchased an NVME for my pc and I already had windows on my hard drive. How do I put windows on my nvme and make my hard drive just storage.

 

[USAFRet]

Hi guys I recently purchased an NVME for my pc and I already had windows on my hard drive. How do I put windows on my nvme and make my hard drive just storage.

Details needed.

What motherboard
What specific drive?
How much space is consumed on your current HDD?

 

[Dpciagne]

Details needed.

What motherboard
What specific drive?
How much space is consumed on your current HDD?

western digital 500 Gb NVME
I have used 400 gb of my 2tb hard drive ( seagate hd)
Asrock Z390 steel legend motherboard

 

[USAFRet]

Are you considering cloning from the HDD to SSD, or a clean install on the SSD?

 

[Dpciagne]

Are you considering cloning from the HDD to SSD, or a clean install on the SSD?

I want everything I had on my windows back so I think cloning. Idk how to do that.

 

[USAFRet]

I want everything I had on my windows back so I think cloning. Idk how to do that.

OK.

At 400GB consumed space, and a 500GB drive, that is right on the edge of 'too much'.
It would be better if you can trim that data space down a few tens of GB>

Then.....

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Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive

If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specifiy the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing

Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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[Dpciagne]

OK.

At 400GB consumed space, and a 500GB drive, that is right on the edge of 'too much'.
It would be better if you can trim that data space down a few tens of GB>

Then.....

-----------------------------
Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
-----------------------------
Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive

If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specifiy the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing

Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
-----------------------------

It’s 400 Gb unused

 

[Dpciagne]

OK.

At 400GB consumed space, and a 500GB drive, that is right on the edge of 'too much'.
It would be better if you can trim that data space down a few tens of GB>

Then.....

-----------------------------
Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
-----------------------------
Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive

If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specifiy the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing

Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
-----------------------------

Do u have any helpful youtube vids for it

 

[USAFRet]

It’s 400 Gb unused

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[Dpciagne]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Correction: I just need my boot on my nvme. also how do i submit photo to here.

 

[USAFRet]

Correction: I just need my boot on my nvme. also how do i submit photo to here.

Upload your pic to imgur.com, and post the link here.
You do not need to make an account at imgur.

But for "just windows" on the new drive....that is a clean install. You can't migrate 'only the OS'.

 

[mdd1963]

A clean install of WIn10 takes all of about 4 minutes these days to an NVME drive...

If you have your needed chipset drivers, GPU drivers, and are patient enough to reinstall your apps, you can still be up and running within an hour...

(Use Ninite to bulk install several common popular apps/browsers, etc..)

You can always attempt the clone/migration as expertly directed above...;; but, even if not successful, it is not an arduous affair to be back within an hour. It's almost a mindless, pleasant 'therapy' these days..

 

[zunchun]

OK.

At 400GB consumed space, and a 500GB drive, that is right on the edge of 'too much'.
It would be better if you can trim that data space down a few tens of GB>

Then.....

-----------------------------
Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
-----------------------------
Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive

If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specifiy the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing

Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
-----------------------------

Right now my Samsung SSD 860 EVO isn't showing up in my windows explorer because I haven't formatted it. My question is do I need to format it before I clone my HDD to my SSD? Will I be able to run my SSD without formatting it but cloning data to it?

 

[USAFRet]

Right now my Samsung SSD 860 EVO isn't showing up in my windows explorer because I haven't formatted it. My question is do I need to format it before I clone my HDD to my SSD? Will I be able to run my SSD without formatting it but cloning data to it?

We've not yet determined if cloning is an option.

Disk Management screen, please.

 

[zunchun]

We've not yet determined if cloning is an option.

Disk Management screen, please.

https://imgur.com/a/5spvbcx

View: https://imgur.com/a/5spvbcx
The 2nd disk is the new SSD

 

[USAFRet]

OK, this is why a pic is worth 1,000 words.

Your current HDD is 1TB, not 2TB. Approx 700GB consumed.
Your new SSD is 1TB, not 500GB.

So here, cloning IS an option.
See specific instructions above.

 

[zunchun]

OK, this is why a pic is worth 1,000 words.

Your current HDD is 1TB, not 2TB. Approx 700GB consumed.
Your new SSD is 1TB, not 500GB.

So here, cloning IS an option.
See specific instructions above.

Thanks for the help! Cloned my harddrive using Samsungs data migration. Everything is up and running on the SSD and I booted up on it (super fast). Only thing is that the Data Migration did not remove the data on my regular harddrive. As you can see in this image, the windows logo is over my HDD and not my SSD. Does this mean anything? Should I just format my HDD and call it done?

https://imgur.com/a/dDGhDCm

View: https://imgur.com/a/dDGhDCm

 

[USAFRet]

At the end of that cloning process, did you power off, physically disconnect the old drive, and then power UP.
You need to do this.

Also, none of the cloning tools will forcibly delete what is on the old drive. This is a good thing.

 

[zunchun]

Awesome, I removed my old HDD and now just have my SSD. Everything is working perfectly. What do I do with my old HDD? I still want that on my pc as extra storage. How do I go about doing that? Thanks!

 

[USAFRet]

First, you verify the boot order in the BIOS.
SSD first and only.

Then...
Power off
Connect the HDD
Delete ALL partitions on it.
The fastest way is the commandline function diskpart, and the clean command.

https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/...-a-drive-through-the-command-prompt-005929en/

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85819-erase-disk-using-diskpart-clean-command-windows-10-a.html

Be absolutely sure which drive you are accessing. This is a powerful comand, and clean is a one way street to data destruction.