I recently got a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. I’m running Windows 7 which is installed on an HDD. I have no other drives in my computer. My copy of Windows 7 was installed by the company that sold the PC and has been validated.
I want to install Windows 10 on my SSD and make it my boot drive. I don’t want to have to format my HDD if I can at all avoid it. I have 362GB out of 931GB free on it so partitioning might be a possibility.
I have little experience messing about with the BIOS and it goes back several years.
I don’t seem to be able to download Windows 7 with the product key on the side of my PC.
I downloaded Windows 10 and put it in a USB key. I restarted my PC and pressed F2/F8/F10 (I restarted it several times) and it only recognized my HDD, not my SSD or my USB. I disconnected my HDD and restarted it and then the PC didn’t recognize any drives at all.
The SSD shows in my Device Manager but not under Computer.
My motherboard has 6 SATA3 interfaces. I plugged in a SATA 3 cable** from one of the 6 blue mobo interfaces into the SSD. It says the speed is limited because it’s only using a SATA 2 interface.
If you need more information to offer advice, I will be happy to provide it.
That worked, thank you.
I can’t seem to be able to access the files that were within my User folder on my old HDD. It says: “Click Continue to permanently get access to this folder” but it’s been half an hour and still no access.
As far as I can see on my mobo (picture is linked to above), there are only 6 SATA interfaces of any type and they’re blue yet the description says they’re SATA 3.
An SSD benchmark puts the sequential read at 477.35MB/s which I don’t think it could do when linked up to a SATA 2, right? A little underwhelming for an 850 EVO, though.
The spec on ther Gigabyte site says there are two 3GB/s SATA2 ports. They appear to be in white pointing out from the board, just to the right of the blue ports in this picture. Note the mention of SATA2 on the board beside them.
