Comments on: How to Give Windows an In-place SATA-to-NVMe SSD Upgrade https://dongknows.com/windows-10-nvme-ssd-upgrade/ And THAT's Good for YOU! Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dong Ngo https://dongknows.com/windows-10-nvme-ssd-upgrade/#comment-56137 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 07:18:21 +0000 https://dongknows.com/?p=3242#comment-56137 In reply to kitty.

Thanks for the input, Sorin. For your case, though, just let the computer crash three consecutive times, and it will automatically offer the option to boot into safe mode on the forth. Do that, wait for it to boot fully in safe mode; now restart the computer, and it will work normally.

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By: kitty https://dongknows.com/windows-10-nvme-ssd-upgrade/#comment-56107 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:46:39 +0000 https://dongknows.com/?p=3242#comment-56107 If you upgrade from a SATA SSD storage (like the HP Spectre X360 13-4101dx) to an NVME SSD, just doing the SSD cloning will not work since the new SSD doesn’t have the driver installed and the PC will not reboot from it until it has it. In order to achieve that, after you replaced the SSD with the new nVME cloned, YOU HAVE TO REBOOT IN SAFE MODE. Once that’s done, since Windows 10 has already the driver, it will install it you for you so you just revert to normal mode and you are done.
That might seem a simple task but Microsoft made sure we go through hell to accomplish that since they made almost impossible to go to safe mode in windows 10, F8 key doesn’t work anymore. Not only that, but even in troubleshoot / advanced options they removed the Startup Options where you could launch the SAFE MODE. Here is the way I managed to do it.
Step1 – Make a Clean Windows 10 installation media USB thumb drive and boot from it (at least 8GB thumb drive and free to download from Microsoft)
Step2 – Click next on first window and on the second one DO NOT click on Install Windows instead click on Repair your computer (bottom left corner)
Step 3 – Click on Troubleshoot / Command Prompt
Step 4 – Remove the Clean Install USB thumb drive
Step 5 – In Command Prompt, type the “bcdedit /set {default} safeboot minimal” command and press Enter to execute it. When the operation has been completed successfully, exit Command Prompt and restart your computer, which will start in Safe Mode. Not needed for Windows 10 but If you want to enable Safe Mode with Networking to get the driver from Internet, type “bcdedit /set {default} safeboot network.
To revert to normal mode select the keyboard shortcut Win+R,, type msconfig and press the ENTER key. Click the Boot tab and uncheck the box before Safe boot, click on Apply and OK and restart your computer.
Done!

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By: Dong Ngo https://dongknows.com/windows-10-nvme-ssd-upgrade/#comment-43499 Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:46:33 +0000 https://dongknows.com/?p=3242#comment-43499 In reply to Tom Rhodes.

Here’s the general direction, Tom: Clone the existing HDD onto an SSD, swap the two — boot up just like that to make sure things are good as they should be. After that, install the HDD as a secondary drive, and you can do whichever you do with it.

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By: Tom Rhodes https://dongknows.com/windows-10-nvme-ssd-upgrade/#comment-43495 Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:42:28 +0000 https://dongknows.com/?p=3242#comment-43495 I have an HP Envy desktop Core I7 cpu running Windows 11 (unsupported but doing fine thanks to your upgrade from Win 10 to Win 11 post). It has a 2 TB Segate HDD and a 16 GB Intel Optane card. I would like to upgrade to an SSD main storage and leave the HDD as secondary, but I don’t know whether the Optane feature will permit this. I’d appreciate any insight you might have to such a setup.

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By: Dong Ngo https://dongknows.com/windows-10-nvme-ssd-upgrade/#comment-29692 Thu, 24 Jun 2021 07:11:10 +0000 https://dongknows.com/?p=3242#comment-29692 In reply to Peter Bisno.

You need to contact Samsung on the matter, Peter, or just use Windows’ built-in driver.

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By: Peter Bisno https://dongknows.com/windows-10-nvme-ssd-upgrade/#comment-29667 Wed, 23 Jun 2021 23:58:40 +0000 https://dongknows.com/?p=3242#comment-29667 Wednesday, June 23, 2021 04:56 PM [Pacific Daylight Time] – Regarding Samsung NVME driver vs. Windows drive– (1) Is Samsung NVME much faster or only slightly faster (2) what type of information does Samsung harvest when using their driver — limited to configuration and performance of the SSD or personally identifiable information and files on the SSD

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By: Dong Ngo https://dongknows.com/windows-10-nvme-ssd-upgrade/#comment-10724 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:58:19 +0000 https://dongknows.com/?p=3242#comment-10724 In reply to Buddy.

Yes, an NVMe will improve the performance noticeably. First, you want to make sure you’re using UEFI (and NOT BIOS) boot for your SATA drive. (You can convert from the latter to the former via the MBR2GPT /convert /AllowFullOS command). More here.

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By: Buddy https://dongknows.com/windows-10-nvme-ssd-upgrade/#comment-10713 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:47:23 +0000 https://dongknows.com/?p=3242#comment-10713 I have a 2013 Gigabyte X79 (PCIe 3) main board which generally runs very well so I’m wondering if I can improve its operation. I’m currently booting and running (W10-Pro) off a SATA SSD, so to be able to boot and run off an NVMe drive would speed up some processes. Although, like you suggest, I could get a PCIe Riser card and an NVMe card to be able to run a “drive” off of that, I’ve been told by Gigabyte, and have read elsewhere that, short of a BIOS/UEFI hack, I would not be able to boot off that NVMe drive. So, 1) is there any real way around that or 2) could I boot of the SSD, then use something like boot-manager to reboot/redirect to an operating system on the NVMe riser drive?

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By: Dong Ngo https://dongknows.com/windows-10-nvme-ssd-upgrade/#comment-10442 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 05:36:43 +0000 https://dongknows.com/?p=3242#comment-10442 In reply to Josh Mason.

USB has nothing to do with NVMe support, Josh. It’s completely irrelevant. What you saw there in the BIOS is also irrelevant. Check with the vendor to make sure the machine is NVMe-ready. My take is it’s not. My advice: Don’t assume that you know, but that you don’t. 🙂

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By: Josh Mason https://dongknows.com/windows-10-nvme-ssd-upgrade/#comment-10437 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 04:03:01 +0000 https://dongknows.com/?p=3242#comment-10437 In reply to Dong Ngo.

I read that article – it seemed a bit inconclusive on the topic at hand.

If anything, it’s an M-key M.2 port, which seemed to suggest it should support NVMe.

I’m looking at the BIOS now and it says “SATA port 1” is not installed (where it IS installed).

I guess my confusion is that I can see it, read, and write to it connected to USB.

Does the fact that the BIOS calls it “SATA Port 1” mean it is NOT M.2? Or is that just a generic term?

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