Hard Drive With Windows 7

"When I saw this hard drive, I knew it would be perfect for me! Installation is a breeze. ...Top tier QLC drive, Crucial rocks!...Sidenote - this is a QLC drive, so its longevity will not be the same as TLC drives. "

"I utilize this item for my OS boot drive, and now, my windows 10 boot time is just under 7 seconds, down from 15 when utilizing a gen 2 M.2 ssd. ...Great affordable gen 5 drive...I bought this drive to use as a boot drive for my nephews new PC. & from install to setting up windows on it everything works perfectly & this drive is very fast. "

"I’ll be honest, I was hesitant to fire this SSD up because of the recent news about Windows updates bricking NVMe drives on engineering firmware. ...I have this setup as a storage drive on a Windows laptop that I use for car diagnostics. "

"Prepare a Bootable USB Drive: Get a 16GB USB flash drive and create a bootable Windows 11 installer on it. 2. ...Excellent M.2 for Windows 11...Great M.2 for your computer. Very fast with Windows 11."

"Windows should find the drive, but it will need to be partitioned, and I made it a single drive with one drive letter. ...I was able to connect this drive to a Windows machine with my Thunderbolt enclosure and confirm that it currently has the latest firmware installed. "

"WD drives are the best...Moved over the contents of that drive to an external SSD. Removed it and put in the SN850X. "

"One of the fastest nvme drives you can ger currently. Very impressive speed especially when utilizing the gen 5 socket....But seriously, I have a RYZEN 7950x3d and fast 6000mhz ram so everything feels instant like I’m on windows xp."

"The Crucial P3 Plus 1TB NVMe delivers impressive speed, especially on my Windows 11 PC with a Ryzen 7 and GTX 1070. It's a solid choice for quick data transfers and enhancing system responsiveness. ...Speeds are as advertised. I needed a windows boot drive so I decided to go with this model and it has been working perfectly. "

"Plugged it in and added it in windows. Works as described...Great Upgrade for Older SATA Hard Drives!...I am still using an AMD FX platform and migrating to this drive made a tremendous difference in performance from a 7200 RPM hard drive. "

"This is less a comment on the drive itself - I've bought a bunch of these before, and they were all fine, but difficulties on installing windows onto these and any other WD drives. ...Great boot drive...Works great in my Ryzen 7 x570 system as the boot drive"

"Great Replacement Drive...Replaced failed hard drive with this SSD. Installation was simple - did not even need any adapters for my 7-year old HP desktop box. ...Hard drive replacement...I used this drive to replace a hard drive in a all in one computer It made the computer work so much faster and operating under windows The computer recognize it right a way and didn't take no time to reinstall everything"

"This specific drive is dedicated to dual booting windows and Linux. ...very good hard drive...very good hard drive. this one has the heatsink and works very well"

"Brought my 7 year old laptop back to life....Seems like a new machine after changing hard drives. Easy to replace, easy to clone the existing hard drive. ...Quality SSD hard drive...Only problem was getting windows to recognize on fresh install. Eventually got it working. "

"Often these drives are customer returns if they don't see the drive immediately show up in Windows, so they will have enough written to them to wipe the drive once, and be otherwise basically brand new. ...196gb written when i got this drive and tested it with magician, drive is genuine, reads and writes at advertised speeds, drive has been perfect for me since installing for game drive in my ryzen 7 5800x3d."

"Really fast nvme drive, windows and games load much quicker....I've bought numerous refurbished hard drives from best buy and always got basically new drives with hardly any written data on them. "

"Great OS drive...Hopefully this drive will last as long as my 7-year old Samsung PM951 (NVMe 1.1) used on three builds over that time as main drive. 970 EVO Plus is a fast PCIe 3.0 drive (NVMe 1.3) still had cache unlike a few of other drives. ...New Hard drive...Yes the new drive is good. My computer is working better."

"Had only 7 hours of usage. I suspect someone bought it for use as a drive to transfer stuff and returned it....You can find the video on YouTube "How to Activate New Hard-drives Not Showing Up on Windows 10" to walk you through the process."

"Samsung cloning software imaged my new 500GB Evo plus drive in 30 seconds. I recommenda 500GB drive so you can put games on it as a 256 GB drive won't have enough room after windows and other apps are installed. ...Very fast drive...Excellent drive so far! Window start up times are noticeably better than the SSD it replaced. "

"Samsung 4TB Internal Drive...Note: this drive is thicker than the 2TB drives. I made a riser for the base to accommodate the thickness of the drive. ...Fast reliable lots of storage for main drive...I was running out of storage on my PC and having noticeable lagging with my standard 4 TB hard drive and 2 TB NVMe main SSD, so I upgraded the main drive to this fast 4 TB SSD. "

"I was going to buy a new computer, installed this drive and my 7 year old i7 Toshiba is very fast. ...Awesome SSD Drive...I like it, cause I'll use it as my main boot up drive, It fast boot up time, and I also use it as my main windows drive, it run my windows and programs pretty fast.. "

"Great improvement in speed in comparison to a hard drive! Have never had any issue installing windows with Western Digital...My dead hard drive was replaced and 7 year old Dell seems like new"

"The greatest drive for your main windows os very fast and snappy....Ideal OS drive...Perfect drive for an OS installation to boot into Windows super fast."

"Works great for steam deck LCD, no issues. Windows boot almost instantly with this drive....I clones the software using a free cloner and it turned the 2TB into a 0.5TB drive. I thought I could just use Windows drive management to enlarge the drive, but the old drive has the C: partition between two other Windows partitions that prevented size changing. "