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Moving OS(Windows 10) to new SSD
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Title says it all. How do I move over ONLY my OS to the SSD that I just got?
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Clone it or reinstall it. Google is your friend for cloning but can present problems after so you would be better off back stuff up then re-installing Windows 10 on the SSD.
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I've only found videos on migrating my 1TB's data to my new SSD, which poses a problem for me as I only want my OS on the SSD.
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You would need to partition the drive with the partition being just about lower than the SSD capacity but to save yourself the hassel, I would re-install it it's faster and easier.
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cool, that's not a problem. I want to just re-install it.
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for re-installing it. I want to download from the website to a usb. I am going to back up my HDD to a external HDD. Beyond that I am completely lost. 1
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On that page, click download tool. Open tool and create a ISO for USB. put the contents of the ISO on to the root of a clean USB stick and install Windows from that.
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I'm not sure whether this issue still exists, but when I did a clean install of windows 10 i couldn't use my windows 7 key to activate it. I know Microsoft had released an update which enabled users to use windows 7 keys but they revoked it due to multiple bugs.
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If the computer has already had Windows 10 installed on it from a upgrade in which case OP's has then a clean install of Windows 10 on the same machine won't even need a serial key to activate as it has been activated before already.
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