Can I boot the system (win 8) from this drive if I install it onto my desktop (motherboard: ga-z77x-ud3h)
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My experience would say yes, what you're asking is certainly possible and that you should also contact Gigabyte and/or provide more info to be sure. In general what you're asking is a common setup. You should check to make sure your mSATA port is SATA 3 also, because I have the feeling it might not be. I'm back because I became curious and did some homework. I foresee no problems and that you'll likely just have to tell it to boot to mSATA in BIOS. It also appears that your mSATA is SATA 2, if that matters to you.
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You can get a cloning kit from Crucial for $20 but you need to call them and ask for W8 compatible kit. Worked great for me.
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My experience would say yes, what you're asking is certainly possible and that you should also contact Gigabyte and/or provide more info to be sure. In general what you're asking is a common setup. You should check to make sure your mSATA port is SATA 3 also, because I have the feeling it might not be.I'm back because I became curious and did some homework. I foresee no problems and that you'll likely just have to tell it to boot to mSATA in BIOS. It also appears that your mSATA is SATA 2, if that matters to you.
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Yes. But there is a few steps to keep in mind you may need to do. If you are already booting and running your OS from your mSata, then you basically just need to clone it from the old one to the new one. If your current mSata is being used by the SpeedStep technology and your OS is actually on an internal hard drive, then there are few more things you must do in order to have your system boot from the mSata. Forums and Google info will aid you with this. I am currently using two of these mSatas for sole OS boot on my Dell XPS 18 and my home htc computer I built using an Asus board.
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Yes you can as you have a slot for it. You will need to clone over the existing install or reinstall Windows. There are also USB enclosures and normal SATA adapters.
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Yes and Yes. Just plug everything into your mobo. If you have multiple storage drives, it is often easier to install the OS with only the Ram, video card (if using one), CPU, and the system hard drive connected. Then, after windows is installed, connect the extra storage drives and format them accordingly.
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Yes, you would have issues, if your using win 7,8 it's possible to install the device manually and set systems resources accordingly
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I would think you should be able to install Windows 7 Home Premium, especially if you wipe out Win 8 first. You may have to change it so the computer looks to the CD/DVD drive on boot up.
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Yes you can use it for desktop. That is what i am currently using it for without any isues. You may need windows 8.1 and using it as a secondary drive to realize full 4 tb capacity. You can use only 2 tb as a primary drive if your oc is older and does not use new uefi bios. Windows decided to only support uefi bios for 4 tb capacity.
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I just saw that it's Windows 7 you want to go to. It's the same procedure basically. You need to get your data off that system if possible. You'll also need a Windows 7 install disk.
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Yes. I use mine with a desktop. A normal Asus motherboard and Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux. I always prefer to store my data on a drive with a 5 year warranty!
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Yes, you can still use the same license. It's encrypted in your BIOS and the change of the storage does not affect that. When you will be installing Windows 8 from the recovery disks that came with the computer, it will pull the product key from the BIOS automatically. It won't even ask you to enter it (you don't know what it is anyway).
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I was told by Samsung that Win 8 is burned into the Motherboard and you cannot, BUT!I was also told by a local PC maker that they do it all the time. When I get time, I am going to have it donehere locally. I have Win 7 loaded on a SSD drive ready to go. Check around your area for smart People thatbuild custom PC's and they should be able to do it for you at a minimal cost.
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Sorry, I never tried booting from it. It may depend on whether or not your BIOS sees it when it boots. I highly doubt you can do anything with this card before the OS loads.
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I used a SATA drive for the boot disk and it was running Windows Vista.It did have an IDE CD-ROM drive that worked fine.I think the BIOS allows you to set the IDE drive as the boot, but I no longer have the system with me.My family member went back to their home, out of state, so I have no way of testing.
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You can install it but it may not boot on the first try. If it does not wrk initially, you can boot from a USB or network, then you go to preferences and set the drive as your default boot drive and it will be fine. The boot time though is faster using ssd on a sata connection than on this card!
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If your computer BIOS supports booting from an optical drive (and all new ones do) this will work fine. you will probably have to go into the BIOS and set your drive to be the first boot item.
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most definitely it can boot via this card.I am using it as the source for sata drives and have only one HD on itand of course it boots, the bios has to see it then the drive and boot sequence is set in order of preference.
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No motherboard has any "Windows built-in".you have motherboards that are compatible with windows 8 or windows 8 ready but the operating system i.e windows is not built-in. that is installed on hard drive. Which you still need the disc media to install it.
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I am using it with an AMD PileDriver 8 core on a Gigabyte AMD motherboard and it works perfectly as my primary boot drive.
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no just follow instructions, put it on drive turn off pc and back on, select boot from disk