Windows 10: Thinkpad ->blank unformatted Samsung 860 EVO will go in b4 first boot?

I know that recently when I installed this same drive in the empty bay on my other notebook and booted into the other SSD I was presented with the opportunity before the drive was usable that I needed what make it a simple volume? and then format it and I was good to go and use it for say either a data drive or what I ended up doing was installing an image so that it was bootable. In this case with the new E480 I have downloaded the creation tool and wrote a fresh image to it (1803) and when I go (thinkpad has not arrived yet; will order next week) to pop out the slow HDD platter b4 first boot and put the SSD in and boot from the USB that has the install media my question is will the install media take care of all that work for me that is make the blank drive bootable and format it for me (NTFS) or do I have to format the drive before putting it in the thinkpad and then install the OS? Thanks.

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does windows 10 recognize samsung 860 evo

I've been reading that a number of people are having trouble with windows 10 working with a Samsung 860 EVO 500 GB SSD. I've tried looking on the Samsung website for the driver for this drive and they have all other models except the 860 EVO. Do they work
together?

 

new samsung 860 ssd magician software 5.21 disables ahci

took back the 860 to best buy and got another 850 evo works just fine. Also went to Samsung support and their message boards . Found others who had same ahci deactivated problems due to lack of upgrading their controller drivers for the 860 to work properly.Thanks
for your suggestions but let Samsung fix this Richie

 

Samsung 860 EVO SSD Makes an Appearance

I am still hanging on to an old Samsung 840 Evo 500 GB and i have been waiting in what seems like forever for the 860 Evo to show up
Hope that the 860 Evo 1 TB in the same price range as the new Crucial MX500 1 TB