Installing a new SSD and going from NTFS to EUFI

SIW2 said:

what have you decided to do now?

are you intending to migrate the os from the sata ssd to the new nvme or not?

If you want to do the migration, by far the easiest way is with diskgenius.

After doing that, when you are certain you are booting into the nvme, then you can deal with the sata sdd using disk management. There is no need for diskpart commands for that

Since Paul Black posted about WizTree and I found out that Steam had saved 180GB or something, I decided to move those files to D:

As C: is now OK and is no longer nearly full I am going to use the new SSD as my data drive D: and change the current HDD at D: to one for all my my photos/videos.

All I want to do is copy all the files from the current D: to the new SSD and change the drive letters so the new SSD will become D: drive and the old HDD to something else.

easy enough.

Just to say thank you for all of your help, I'll try to go through all the replies and leave "thank yous".

I decided after being told to use WinTree to find the bloat, which is what I did, and moved a load of files that I didn't realise were being stored on C: drive.

Now using the new 1TB SDD as the my main data drive, and the old HDD is now storing all photos and videos.

Thank you again for all of your help.


(I may, in the future, buy another M.2 SSD and install it in the second slot and clone the current SATA SSD to it.)

I may, in the future, buy another M.2 SSD and install it in the second slot and clone the current SATA SSD to it.

You are becoming aventurous

Megahertz said:

I would never use a fast M.2 NVMe drive as a data drive.
I would buy a small M.2 NVMe for windows and programs and two large HDD (2T and up), one for data and one for data backup.

It's just that I've now got a 1TB M.2 sitting there doing nothing.

You do have to be careful when installing multiple NVMe SSDs in regards to PCI lanes. If I installed an NVMe SSD in my second M.2 slot, it would take away PCI lanes (I believe 2 lanes) from the slot my graphics card is installed in. I would rather have the graphics card using those PCI lanes than a second NVMe SSD.

RoadBlaster said:

I have 2 X NVME installed (both run at full speed) & all my X570 chipset does it take away 2 out of 6 sata ports away? (different motherboards do different things?)

NVMe drives will not disable SATA ports. They operate on completely separate busses.