![]() When I was about to go mad I decided to use a program to format and clone my OS to the new SSD. ( Steps can be found on this very helpful video ) I then dived into the Windows madness by running DISKPART commands and manually creating a partition/ installing from USB but still it was not working from me. " Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition” and “this is not GPT disk”. I was unable to do so, because of getting the infamous I decided however to use the M2 slot of the mobo (it needed to be activated via BIOS - Advanced).Įverything was going well, until i tried installing Windows 10 on the new SSD. Managed to remove all other hard drives ( old SSD and SATA) and at some point i noticed that the new SSD was appearing in the Hard Drive BBS priorities, which is a secondary boot option. Worst case scenario is to use the old 840 SSD for Windows and all programs/games with the new one. The new drive works fine it is just that i cannot use it the way i wanted to. etc but werre resolved after using DISKPART commands, but i ended up cleaning it fresh as there were some extra partitions )Īfter reading some articles here and there, i tried a fix by disabling the CSM and changing the secure boot option to Other OS and not UEFI, but when i did that the PC could not boot as there was no disk to boot from. (Initially i had some other issues with the GPT. ![]() In the boot options however, i could not find the new 970 SSD. ![]() ![]() My main plan however was to use this new 970 disk as a primary and install Windows, so after preparing a USB boot stick i restarted and went into BIOS. Installed the Samsung Magician software as well and even updated the drivers of my other older Samsung SSD (840). My motherboard is ΑSUS MAXIMUS VII RANGERĪfter some research, and reading a few posts in here, i decided to go with a PCIE adaptor in order to use the most of the speed of this SSD, as apparaently the onboard M2 slot limits the speed quite a bit.įor that reason i also bought together the M2 PCIe SSD Adapter, x4 PCIe 3.0Īll the items were delivered yesterday and installed them into the PCIE port.Ĭomputer started fine and the new disk is visible in Disk Management, and after a format ready to be used. I recently purchased a M2 SSD, the lovely Samsung MZ-V7E1T0BW 970 EVO 1 TB V-NAND M.2 PCI Express Solid State Drive, Black ![]()
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