Sometimes you have to start afresh install of Windows 10, mainly when your current OS has been crashing or freezing a lot. As long as you can carefully follow the below guide and prepare all the necessary tools beforehand, you can make it on your own, and finally run a fresh OS on the new SSD. First of all, to reinstall Windows 10 on SSD manually, you need to create a bootable installation media.
With the bootable installation media at hand, now head to the detailed steps to reinstall Windows 10 on SSD. Make sure that you boot PC from the installation media. The installation should start. During the installation process, skip the steps which ask for a product key and select the option I am Reinstalling Windows 10 on this PC , and activation will not be an issue, your PC will have a digital entitlement stored on the Microsoft Servers.
Step 4. While installing, your system will reboot. Otherwise, the installation may start all over again. Do not remove the installation media at this point. Step 5. When Windows 10 has finished installing and the desktop appears, you can shut down your system and remove the installation media. The next time you start the computer, you will boot Windows 10 from the new SSD. Chances are that when you choose to use the Windows installation media way to reinstall Windows 10 on SSD, some strange error messages will prevent you from successfully installing the operating system on the selected hard drive.
How to install Windows 10 on new SSD? Keep reading to find specific steps. I want to do a clean install of Windows 10 OS on a new ssd and make this the boot drive. I would like to keep the old WD 1T hard drive as a storage drive. I'm not sure that I know how to properly identify the OS files. Due to these benefits, many users would like to upgrade old system disk to SSD, or install OS on a new SSD to make the computer boots up faster, and runs smoothly even with muliple programs in the background.
So, how to install Windows 10 on SSD? There are usually two ways: one is to clean install Windows 10 using an installation disc, another is to clone Windows 10 to SSD via reliable disk cloning software. For more details and specific approaches, please keep reading. How to replace hard drive with SSD and install Windows on it? This may be a doubt for many users. Therefore, I'm here to introduce all the preparations need to be done, and then walk you through every detailed steps to install OS on a new SSD.
Ensure the security of your data and system. To do fresh or clean install, it's better to backup files that are important to you, because personal data on the old hard drive will be removed during the process. To prevent unexpected system failures, you could backup the system as well, this is especially important for a novice. And data saved on the C drive will be lost. How to migrate only Windows 10 to SSD? Follow the tutorial guide in this part, you will be able to swap your Windows 10 system drive to SSD without reinstallation.
You may either follow the video tutorial or step-by-step guide to start the OS migration process now:. Note: The operation of migrating OS to SSD or HDD will delete and remove existing partitions and data on your target disk when there is not enough unallocated space on the target disk.
If you saved important data there, back up them to an external hard drive in advance. Step 1. Select "Migrate OS" from the top menu. Step 2. Click "Continue" after check warning message. The data and partitions on the target disk will be deleted. Make sure that you've backed up important data in advance. The most traditional way is to perform a clean Windows installation on SSD with the Windows installation disc.
Below are the detailed steps. Download and use Microsoft Media Creation Tool to make the installation media. Plug the installation disk into your computer.
Shut down your computer, open its case, remove the old hard disk, and insert the SSD into the drive bay. Turn on your computer and press a specific key to boot into BIOS and modify the boot order to make your computer boot from the installation disk.
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