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I have got a HDD and am going to upgrade to an SSD for Windows 10. How do you get windows 10 onto the SSD? I dont mind doing a clean reinstall of windows and have to reinstall all of my programs, but i do not want to buy a seperate USB or DVD to burn Windows 10 onto. I also don't want to buy a program to move windows to the SSD. Is there a way to completely reinstall windows 10 onto the SSD, then i can choose where i want to download all of my other programs?
 
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Yes. If it's an M2 NVME you may need to format it first, but for a regular SATA SSD thats it.
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Most good SSD's have programs to clone your HD. You do have to resize your HD's and move data around to meet the size of your new SSD. Also you have to learn windows disk manager. Shrinking your HD partition to create a new one and coping data till it meets the SSD.
 
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I have not got the activation key, but when i log on to my PC i have to use my email which is a hotmail. Is this what you mean?
 
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Yes. No product key needed. Just reinstall and use same Hotmail account to sign-in.
 
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I'm still confused, do you know of any instructions on the internet as all i can find are ways which require a disk/USB with windows or which require to pay for a cloning program which i do not want. Is it as simple as going to settings, then pressing full system reset, and there is an option where to download it or what?
 
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Once windows is on the SSD and i have booted windows from the SSD, do i need to delete windows 10 from my HDD or does it do it automatically?
 
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No. You will need to reformat the drive yourself if you want to use it as a storage drive.
 
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And is this easy to do? or will it be confusing?

 
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Just right click it in file explorer and choose format. Then wipe the disk clean with a quick or full format. Quick will be fine in most circumstances. As simple as that.

Make sure its not attached when installing Windows to SSD so no conflicts occur. Attach afterwards.
 
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So the whole thing is, download windows with tool onto USB, swap HDD with SSD (HDD out of PC, SSD in) setup windows on SSD with my account, put HDD back in, format the HDD for storage.
 
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Yes. If it's an M2 NVME you may need to format it first, but for a regular SATA SSD thats it.
 
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