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#1 | Clone Windows 7 From SATA SSD To MVMe M2 SSD datum

Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:11 pm (Last edited: Wed Feb 21, 2018 4:27 pm)

Hello!

Just Mod-flashed my BIOS of my Asus Maximus IV Gene-z Z68 mainboard with help of the How to get full NVMe... Thread.
Before I Installed the NVMe Driver Hotfix for Windows 7 what works great. Now I like to clone my Win 7 System from my Samsung 850 EVO to the new Samsung 960 EVO NVMe M2 SSD. Furthermore my aim is to boot from it, too.

For cloning I tried the Migration Tool offers by Samsung and the M2 SSD get recognized by the Programm, but it says that the M2 SSD is not supportet.
Looking at the overview given by the programm I noticed that the "Driver" is shown as "Microsoft" (pretty clear, cause I installed the Microsoft - Hotfix).

Question 1: Will installing the specific Samsung NVMe Driver grand support for the M2 SSD in the Migration Tool?
Question 2: I've red in another forum, that installing the specific Samsung NVMe Driver will cause that my System isn't able to boot from my SATA-SSD (850 EVO) anymore?

At the Moment I am at work and thinking about this problem..

Like in step 6 from the first post, in the thread I've mentioned above, is mentioned:

Zitat
Another option is to do a clean OS installation in UEFI mode onto any SATA connected SSD (a suitable NVMe driver should be available for the OS!) and to clone the complete disk drive content onto the NVMe SSD. After having inserted the NVMe EFI module into the BIOS, the formerly used SSD should be removed and the NVMe SSD inserted.
Good luck!

You need an OS installed in UEFI mode. I am not sure if my installed Win 7(Professional x64) is in UEFI or Legacy mode, but when I'm at home i will check this. So if it is in Legacy Mode I found a Tool named "AOMEI Partition Assistant" to convert Legacy to UEFI(GPT) without to reinstall Windows.

Question 3: After converting, will this work with the NVMe SSD or do I really need a clean OS installation?
Question 4: So after all, if my System match the requirements (NVMe Driver integrated in WIN7, Win7 in UEFI Mode, Z68 BIOS-Mod Flashed), which possibilities do i have to clone my "old" Samsung 850 EVO SSD to my new Samsung 960 EVO M2 SSD also to boot from it?

Thanks for help and kind regards,

Brice

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#2 | RE: Clone Windows 7 From SATA SSD To MVMe M2 SSD datum

Wed Feb 21, 2018 4:36 pm (Last edited: Wed Feb 21, 2018 4:36 pm)

@brice:
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!

If you want to replace your currently in-use system disk drive by another HDD/SSD type, which uses another transfer protocol (here: NVMe instead of AHCI), a clean install of the OS is the safest option and will give your "new" system the best possible performance (by avoiding all the garbage of the past).
Since I never have cloned the content of a SATA connected SSD to an NVMe connected SSD, I cannot help you, if you should insist on your cloning idea.

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#3 | RE: Clone Windows 7 From SATA SSD To MVMe M2 SSD datum

Thu Mar 08, 2018 12:02 pm

Converting Windows BIOS installation to UEFI
https://mrlithium.blogspot.com/2015/12/h...egacy-bios.html
or find an old copy of:
https://www.sevenforums.com/installation...stall-uefi.html

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