Does the 970 EVO Plus 1TB SSD come formatted? null

Ernest, no the drive comes uninitialized, so you will have to pick Master Boot Record (MBR) or GUID Partition Table (GPT) when you put it in a system with Windows installed. From there, you can partition and format at your discretion.

No, you have to format it. I cloned my old hard drive to this chip and in that case formatting beforehand is not necessary.

Yessir, everything is operational after you install it correctly. You can however download the Samsung Magician tool after installation if you would like up-to-date alerts regarding your SSD and the ability to boost it.

No it doesn't come formatted. You have connect it to an external enclosure and format it using the Windows drive management. If you are installing cleanly the OS might format it automatically when it installs.

Under disk management you should see the drive listed under a letter or you can choose the letter or a name to call it. You have to go through two steps which consists of creating the volume of NTFS and it will show the readable space of the drive which is it's default value(you only have to click ok or next once it highlights it readable space or choose how much space if you want to have another partition). Once you go through those two options windows can then detect the drive.

Most all new drives are never formatted when purchased new. Disk manager in Windows will allow you to initialize and format the drive.

It worked for me. Just popped it in. Bios detected it and I did a fresh install of windows on it. So I would say that it was formatted for windows. Not sure if it would do the same on a mac setup or not but it could.

I had to create a partition with mine. After first boot the drive was showing as "unallocated", but was no problem at all getting it up and running.

No, the solid state drive must be formatted.

I did not have to format the SSD to use it. I installed Windows 10 on it and also some music files and had no issues.

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Ernest, no the drive comes uninitialized, so you will have to pick Master Boot Record (MBR) or GUID Partition Table (GPT) when you put it in a system with Windows installed. From there, you can partition and format at your discretion.
Answered by Terrell 6 years ago
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No, you have to format it. I cloned my old hard drive to this chip and in that case formatting beforehand is not necessary.
Answered by LouA 6 years ago
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Yessir, everything is operational after you install it correctly. You can however download the Samsung Magician tool after installation if you would like up-to-date alerts regarding your SSD and the ability to boost it.
Answered by Jake 6 years ago
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No it doesn't come formatted. You have connect it to an external enclosure and format it using the Windows drive management. If you are installing cleanly the OS might format it automatically when it installs.
Answered by kanehi 6 years ago
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Under disk management you should see the drive listed under a letter or you can choose the letter or a name to call it. You have to go through two steps which consists of creating the volume of NTFS and it will show the readable space of the drive which is it's default value(you only have to click ok or next once it highlights it readable space or choose how much space if you want to have another partition). Once you go through those two options windows can then detect the drive.
Answered by BenR 4 years ago
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Most all new drives are never formatted when purchased new. Disk manager in Windows will allow you to initialize and format the drive.
Answered by partman1969 6 years ago
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No it does not
Answered by Gamertag88 6 years ago
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It worked for me. Just popped it in. Bios detected it and I did a fresh install of windows on it. So I would say that it was formatted for windows. Not sure if it would do the same on a mac setup or not but it could.
Answered by snakes200 6 years ago
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I had to create a partition with mine. After first boot the drive was showing as "unallocated", but was no problem at all getting it up and running.
Answered by SlYkNeZz 6 years ago
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No, the solid state drive must be formatted.
Answered by CommunityAnswer 6 years ago
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