Installing HDD from old PC to new one!!

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stefanaras1111

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Hello guys in few days i wll have my new pc components but i have a 2TB HDD installed on my current pc with windows 7 my usiversity give to all students free codes for windows 10 i will buy an SSD too how is it possible to delete windows 7 and install windows 10 on my new system...i read something about fresh start or something can you help me?
 
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Your best bet would be to fresh-install the Win 10 OS onto your new Samsung SSD. Ensure that only the SSD is connected at the time; temporarily disconnect the HDD from the system. Following the OS install work with the SSD for a reasonable period of time to determine the system boots to the OS without incident and thereafter functions problem-free. ONLY then should you reconnect the HDD and begin the reinstallation of any programs that you desire on the HDD (or the SSD) and possibly transfer other data to the SSD that you prefer to be installed on the new boot drive.

Understand that the HDD will be serving as a SECONDARY drive for the purpose of storage, backups, and the like. I'm not clear on your question as to whether you should...
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you can leave windows 7 alone. unplug the 2TB drive and install SSD. install windows 10 to SSD. once 10 is installed you can plug in the HDD and use the motherboard boot loader to select between windows 7 HDD and windows 10 SSD. you can set the BIOS to use one as the default boot device. when you need the other hit the proper f-key at boot and select the other.
Advice assumes the key given is not an upgrade to the windows 7 license.
 
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So i will install windows 10 from usb or a disc while i will have only my ssd connected to my computer i will finish everything and then i will plug the HDD but i dont have to format or delete the windows 7 from the HDD?

 
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USB or Disk it is your choice, USB is faster though.
Not if the windows 7 install is still valid. if the activation is good there is no reason not to keep it.
My system is a triple boot system, I choose either windows 10 as the default, or hitting F8 I can choose a different drive with linux or windows 7. you will have 2 computers as far as microsoft licensing is concerned.
the drive and its data will be accessible from the other OS.
 
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1. Unless you have some special need for installing Win 7 on your new PC - for example, there are some specialized programs on your current 2 TB HDD that will work only with the Win 7 OS and not with Win 10 - I see no need for you to retain the Win 7 OS on your new system.

2. Even with its quirks and the obvious need for you to learn the "ins & outs" of a new OS, the Win 10 OS is a superior OS in so many ways and the future is NOW. Win 7 is a dying OS virtually unsupported by MS and unless you have a special need for that OS (as explained in 1. above), my advice is simply don't consider using it once your Win 10 has been successfully installed in your new system and is "alive & well".

3. And to buttress the above advice, it's clear that your university is supportive of the new OS, is it not?

4. So go ahead and fresh-install the Win 10 OS on your new SSD (which I hope will not have a capacity not less than 250 GB - more if you can afford it) ensuring that you have a bootable functional drive problem-free. You're probably aware you will then need to reinstall all or virtually all of your programs on the 2 TB HDD which will become a secondary drive in your system. By & by you can delete the Win 7 OS from that HDD.
 
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I just bought a samsung 850 ssd 250 gb where i will install the new windows 10 with a flash drive device but i dont get how i will install the hdd just note that i dont want the windows 7 anymore how i will delete them? should i format the hdd with a format disc before i install to the new machine or i can install the hdd with the windows 7 and everything and delete the windows manually?

 
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Your best bet would be to fresh-install the Win 10 OS onto your new Samsung SSD. Ensure that only the SSD is connected at the time; temporarily disconnect the HDD from the system. Following the OS install work with the SSD for a reasonable period of time to determine the system boots to the OS without incident and thereafter functions problem-free. ONLY then should you reconnect the HDD and begin the reinstallation of any programs that you desire on the HDD (or the SSD) and possibly transfer other data to the SSD that you prefer to be installed on the new boot drive.

Understand that the HDD will be serving as a SECONDARY drive for the purpose of storage, backups, and the like. I'm not clear on your question as to whether you should format the HDD. Are you indicating there will be NO PROGRAMS/DATA remaining on the HDD that you desire or need? If that is indeed the case after you may have transferred data to the SSD from the HDD, then of course you can format the HDD so that no data remains on that secondary drive. I was assuming there WERE programs/data that you desired to remain on the HDD.

In any event you can go ahead and delete the Win 7 OS from the HDD. Just ensure you're not deleting any programs/data that you want to remain on that drive.
 
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