Windows 10: How to install Windows 11/10 on a Samsung EVO Plus 970 2Tb

Bios recognizes the SSD. Furthermore, a bootable Mint USB DOES recognize the NVME SSD in the partitioning tool. Creating a bootable USB with either Windows 11 and 10 does not recognize the NVME SSD. Trying to put the NVME driver installer obtained https://www.samsung.com/us/business/support/owners/product/970-evo-plus-series-2tb/ on a separate USB, turning on the cmd with SHIFT-F10 and navigating and executing the .exe file yields an error that the file isn't supported on the current version of windows for both win 10 and win 11 installersFurthermore, downloading the NVME drivers ins

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Samsung 860 EVO 2TB SSD

Thanks for your reply.

There is no driver software with the drive. The box only has the SSD and an information booklet. I did go to the Samsung website to find drivers but the only ones there are drivers that
support Samsung NVMe SSDs: SSD 970 PRO, 970 EVO, 970 EVO Plus, 960 PRO, 960 EVO and 950 PRO.

Also, the Samsung Magician software fails to recognize the drive. According to page 8 of the installation guide: "3) Magician shows only volumes mounted with letter." Since
I can't assign a drive letter that is of no use.

On another message board there is the suggestion to use a SATA to USB adapter which I'm going to try when the adapter comes in on Thursday. After that is third party formatting software.

 

Clone Boot disk ( Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 GB) to Samsung 970 EVO PLUS







To clarify, this is the present BIOS. The Storage Boot Option Control is "Legacy", and the system boots from the Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 GB fine.




Above is what presently shows up when I load Macrium.

If I understand you correctly, use Macrium to clone the entirety of Disk 4 (SSD 850) to Disk 5 (970 EVO). Set DISK 5 as the Z:\ drive. The clone from DISK 4 to DISK 5 should wipe the prior data during the clone.

Then when I reboot, set the boot order to DISK 5 or Z:\ (970 EVO).

Last two questions:
When in the BIOS during reboot, should the STORAGE BOOT OPTION CONTROL be set to UEFI?

Do I skip or follow the last step:
Code:
reagentc /enable <- this will re-enable the Windows Recovery Environment but it will not be in a recovery partition, it will stay on the new C: drive
reagentc /info <- this will show you where the Windows Recovery Environment is

Thank you so much NavyLCDR!!!

 

Introducing new Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe SSDs

Source: https://news.samsung.com/us/samsung-...-970-evo-plus/

See also: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus | Samsung V-NAND Consumer SSD | Samsung Semiconductor Global Website