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Converting an existing installation to an NVMe SSD

trparky

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I have an existing Windows 10 installation on a SATA SSD that I plan on putting into another system, I got a new NVMe SSD for the system that I'm taking the SATA SSD out of. How do I go about transitioning the existing Windows 10 installation to the NVMe SSD? Is it really as easy as cloning it over? Or do I have to do something to the existing installation of Windows 10 (install a driver)? I know that cloning it over does just that but making it bootable is another thing especially when converting from one storage type to another. The days of using legacy IDE vs. AHCI comes to mind.
 
have you considered installing a fresh copy of windows?
 
I'd really not do that if I can help it.
 
Put the NVMe drive into the computer and boot from the old SATA drive. That should install any drivers you need, but windows 10 has native NVMe support, so this really should be necessary.

Plus, with windows 10, it is not as complicated to switch controller types as it used to be. Even when switching from IDE to AHCI or RAID, all you have to do with Windows 10 now is boot it into safe mode. Bootinf into safe mode now forces Windows 10 to reconfigure itself for the the new controller type.
 
I used Macrium Reflect to mirror the drive over onto the new SSD off to the races I went. I did have to change the boot settings in UEFI though.
 
windows 10 will pretty much boot on anything
I was doing a onsite and had to migrate a ancient phenom II machine to a new shiney 8400

I cloned the drive onto a fresh ssd and booted it in the new machine booted right up never missed a beat
 
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