Just bought an SSD (m.2) for my laptop, what are the next steps?

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afnanfahmi

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Hi all. I just bought a new m.2 ssd (120GB) for my laptop. My laptop is lenovo y410p. And my plan is to move the os (Win 10) (it'll be better if I can clean install windows 10) and several apps onto it while leave other files and apps on hdd.


My laptop Y410p
-16GB ram ddr3(just upgraded from 8GB)
-i7-4700MQ (2.40GHz 1600MHz 6MB)
-originally windows 8.1 64-bit (upgraded to win10)
-gt 755m (2GB)
-1TB hdd


My questions are
1) What are the steps?
2) Will I able to do it, since originally it came with win8?
3) I'm hoping to clean install my OS, but I don't have the windows 10 product key, or I need to buy a new OS?
4) What are the stuffs that I need? External HDD, or big usb thumb drive, sata to 3.0 cable?

Cheers...
 
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CountMike

CountMike

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Clean install is better and easier. For W10 you don't need new key if it's already activated. For best chance for activation it's best to have it activated with same Microsoft account. Just install W10 and programs and than you can use old HDD for whatever you want,inside or thru USB adapter.
 
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afnanfahmi

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Thanks for your reply. One thing I didn't mention was my hdd is almost full, and my laptop has a problem loading up (from sleep or shutdown) and that's the reason I'm going to ssd. Perhaps you can list a step-by-step process for clean install windows 10 for me, that'll be good.
 
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USAFRet

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Step by step clean install linked above.
 
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