Please help!!! Move windows 10 to my new 960 evo

I have spent hrs and days trying to figure this POS out. Why is this so damn complicated? I hope someone on here will help me because I will send this MSI GE63vr back if I cant do this.
Please help guys.

And for the smart A$$s yes I have searched for hrs and nothing that works for me.

 

Backup current drive with Macrium Reflect.
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Restore image back to new drive. Just make sure win10partition is equal or smaller than targetdrive. Otherwise shrink win10partition prior backup.

 

Ok, I used another back tool doing the same thing and no luck. Once I get this backup on my 960, do I take the windows drive out? I did this last time and once I started up it just took me to the bios. I tried switching the boot drives but it did the same thing.
Thank you for the help, I want to throw this laptop across the room right now.


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Once you get windows installed on the 960 evo, then you go into the Bios, set the boot drive to the SSD, save and exit and then it will boot to the SSD.
you need to make sure the BIOS is set to AHCI and NOT to RAID. Some bioses will default to RAID and to AHCI. Use AHCI For single drives.
You may need to make sure CSM is disabled and Bios is set to UEFI and NOT legacy.

Then you can format the HDD and erase it.

A chainsaw way to do things is to image the drive to the SSD as before, then when the image is done, turn off the laptop, open it, disconnect the HDD SATA connector, power on the laptop, go into Bios and set the boot drive, etc, load windows, close, turn off, then plug the HDD back in again.
Then power on, go back in the Bios and make sure AHCI and the proper boot drive is still set.

This always works.

 

Ok I’ll try that thank you.


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so do I store
the image on the current windows drive or on the new drive

 

got it save to 960evo

 

so my 960 is not showing up in my bootable drives. Its in windows and I can see it in the bios just not as a bootable drive.

 

its formatted in the NTFS so I am at a loss. This is sooooo damn stupid it should not be this difficult.

 

Any ideas?


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Did you format as a GPT volume? I believe windows 10 requires GPT and windows 7 NTFS? I forgot. I dont even know much about this. Please check the windows 10 thread in the OS section, written by Phoenix. I am sure these questions have been answered there.

 

I will thank you

 

Well never could get it to work. The 960 would show up in legacy mode for bootable devices though. The drive is fine I just don’t understand why this is so difficult. Ahhhh


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Sounds like a nightmare! In a couple of days will do the same. Hopefully, I won't get the same problem.

 

Personally I would recommend clean installing windows on the new drive, and then connect your previous drive externally to copy any information.

If you want to backup/restore as it is, I would recommend Acronis, the latest versions, to ensure NVMe support. Make a bootable USB acronis to ease things up.

Physically have both the new drive and the old drive connected to your pc. Boot to BIOS and make sure you boot from the removable USB with Acronis.

Inside Acronis, backup your current windows OS drive, and then restore it onto the new m.2 drive. After it finishes, turn of power and remove the old drive from the PC. Remove the external USB as well.

Boot your PC with the new drive installed and into BIOS. Make sure the boot order is with Windows manager and/or your new drive as the first option, save and reboot. It should work.

Part of the problem are drivers, I think, due to NVMe. I recommend clean install the latest windows directly to the new drive.... it will save a lot of headaches, and you can manually download all the drivers and applications from the MSI Site.

 

If your original OS isn't situated on M.2 then you may want to just start from scratch as ryzeki mentioned since the existing OS isn't configured to boot from NVMe.

 

That happened with my EVO. It wouldn't show as a bootable drive until I went into Disk Management and modified the unallocated volume and gave it a drive letter.

Why I dunno.

 

I spent last week fighting with this and eventually got it to work on my GE63VR. I replaced the Kingston NVME SSD with two samsung 960 EVO
NVME's. Problems I encountered were:

Macrium backup needs it's bootable drive built with nvme drivers (and raid drivers if required) usually from the existing system before you trash it.
256Gb is not always 256Gb! The 960 EVO's are slightly smaller than the Kingston so you can't do a one to one restore. I was lucky in that I configured my pair as raid 0 and therefore had a 512GB drive to restore t therwise you'd have to reduce the size of the system partition before you back it up.
What previous people have said about AHCI etc. is all valid.

It was worth the effort. The system disk now reports around 3600MB/s

Good luck.