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Hi I just bought an acer aspire e5 575g 55kk laptop on Black Friday and I immediately want to take out the 1tb 5400 rpm HDD and swap it out for a 500gb samsung evo ssd before I even use the laptop. I am unsure about how to do a fresh install of windows 10 on the sdd. Will the sdd come with a disc with windows 10 on it so I can download it and if so will this be the squeaky clean method? I really would appreciate any advice!
 
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Buy a usb to sata adapter cable. Perhaps$10 or so.
Use the free Samsung ssd migration tool to copy your initial HDD C drive to the Samsung ssd.
When done, simply replace the original HDD with the Samsung evo and you are done.

Then, you can uninstall all the bloatware and trialware faster.
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you have two options. one from another pc use a 8g usb stick and microsoft free media creation tool to make a clean windows 10 usb boot stick installer. if you go this route none of the laptop drivers or extra software will be on the laptop. the other way is making a set of restore disk or a restore usb stick from the laptops own restore software.
 
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Do you have a desktop where you can plug in both drives? If so, you can just use a program to transfer/clone the drive into the SSD. The SSD does not come with an installation disk. It only comes with some software to transfer data.
 
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Buy a usb to sata adapter cable. Perhaps$10 or so.
Use the free Samsung ssd migration tool to copy your initial HDD C drive to the Samsung ssd.
When done, simply replace the original HDD with the Samsung evo and you are done.

Then, you can uninstall all the bloatware and trialware faster.
 
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meeeemeeeee

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bwinsey I do have a desktop to download windows 10 on USB but it's not really available to am atm so I think I'd rather go with geofelts solution. It sounds like an easy option for me. Thank you all so much for your help!
 
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Yeah. I just said that because it's cheaper and faster to do it via sata than through USB, but if you don't have a desktop it's the only way you can do it.
 
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