Windows 10: I plan to upgrade my CPUandMotherboard and want to keep existing Win10 installed on SSD...

I plan to upgrade my CPUandMotherboard and want to keep existing Win10 installed on SSD drive. How to proceed exactly?Win10 actually installed on Crucial 250GB SSD drive.Actual:CPU: Intel Core i3-8100 SSD: Crucial MX300 525GB WIN10MBD: Asus PRIME H310M-A R2.0 Future:CPU: i9 13900KSSD SAMEMBD: MSI Z790 PRO WI-FI.New HArdware keeps booting on BIOS setting. ....Even though booting order seems correct....SSD recognized..

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Win10 clean install on Samsung SSD 850 EVO

BLUF: SSD is not listed ubder "Where do you want to install Windows?"

Steps Complete:

1. I've create a Win10 bootable install usb.

2. I connect the new Samsung SSD 850 EVO via SATA.

3. I reboot PC and verify SSD is seen by the motherboard/BIOS

4. Begin Win10 install via usb.

5. Get to "Where do you want to install Windows?" and the SSD is not listed

Problems:

1. Samsung does not offer a driver for the 850 on their website

2. Cannot locate driver elsewhere

Unsuccessful Mitigations Steps Attempt:

A. Format & partition SSD via Windows Disk Management, then retried steps 1-5 above....same result

B. Clone existing HHD onto SSD via "Image for Windows" by TeraByte, then verified SSD contents via Windows Explorer....similar result

Can you please offer some advice on locating a driver for a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB drive? Or an alternative method?

Thank you

 

Win10 Upgrade Plans

I’ve been a win10 Insider from the beginning but I still use win7Pro(x64) on my 2 home Desktop puters.

My win10 insider version is installed (19037.1) on an older test machine I built some years ago. Rather than upgrade to win10 over my current win7 puters, I would like to keep those intact as is for now & purchase a couple of Samsung SSD EVO 250GB ATA Drives & install win10 Pro x64 on each of the new SSD’s.
What I need help with is which win10 software to purchase. In the past I’ve always purchased the Full Retail Boxed version. It would come with DVD disk media, but I think I would rather have the Thumb Drive version. Does the Retail Boxed version come with Thumb drives or disk media.
I usually purchase this OS software from New Egg or Amazon.
Thank you, for any/all comments or suggestions on my planned upgrade to win10.

 

Win10: windows update stuck at never ending loop ?

When in win10:

• Update&security -> Windows update -> Finding update... .... .... ....

Planning to download the latest Win10.ISO (vers.1803) and manually update:
- Then wait that my ordered new SSD arrives and clone the old HDD to it.