Hello!
Just Mod-flashed my BIOS of my Asus Maximus IV Gene-z Z68 mainboard with help of the How to get full NVMe… Thread.
Before I Installed the NVMe Driver Hotfix for Windows 7 what works great. Now I like to clone my Win 7 System from my Samsung 850 EVO to the new Samsung 960 EVO NVMe M2 SSD. Furthermore my aim is to boot from it, too.
For cloning I tried the Migration Tool offers by Samsung and the M2 SSD get recognized by the Programm, but it says that the M2 SSD is not supportet.
Looking at the overview given by the programm I noticed that the “Driver” is shown as “Microsoft” (pretty clear, cause I installed the Microsoft - Hotfix).
Question 1: Will installing the specific Samsung NVMe Driver grand support for the M2 SSD in the Migration Tool?
Question 2: I’ve red in another forum, that installing the specific Samsung NVMe Driver will cause that my System isn’t able to boot from my SATA-SSD (850 EVO) anymore?
At the Moment I am at work and thinking about this problem…
Like in step 6 from the first post, in the thread I’ve mentioned above, is mentioned:
You need an OS installed in UEFI mode. I am not sure if my installed Win 7(Professional x64) is in UEFI or Legacy mode, but when I’m at home i will check this. So if it is in Legacy Mode I found a Tool named “AOMEI Partition Assistant” to convert Legacy to UEFI(GPT) without to reinstall Windows.
Question 3: After converting, will this work with the NVMe SSD or do I really need a clean OS installation?
Question 4: So after all, if my System match the requirements (NVMe Driver integrated in WIN7, Win7 in UEFI Mode, Z68 BIOS-Mod Flashed), which possibilities do i have to clone my “old” Samsung 850 EVO SSD to my new Samsung 960 EVO M2 SSD also to boot from it?
Thanks for help and kind regards,
Brice