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Wanting to put an SSD into my pc to speed it up and a bit more storage, its a windows 7 pc originally but updated to win 10, when it became available, can i reinstall windows on new SSD just from the download at microsoft plus key ... where do i find my key ?
cheers in advance
If you install it on the SSD it should pick up the key form the other drive, worked fine with mine doing it that way, then sort out your files and format the current drive
Just install Windows 10 on the new SSD ... it will activate once it’s online. Nothing more to do.
Just incase you have any other programs with serial numbers, there are a few free programs that will find these serials for you. I use Belarc Serial finder
windows 10 is tied to the computer BIOS, once you reinstall windows 10 it will reactivate itself... things only get problematic when you change the motherboard.
Microsoft allow you to download a win10 image file that can be put on a usb pen for installation...
windows 10 is tied to the computer BIOS
Its not in all cases, it uses the unique IDs of components like network cards when the key is not built into the firmware.
Faster to use some free cloning software to duplicate the drive, then swap the SSD. You'll need a £15 caddy for the SSD to use as a usb whilst it's cloned.
Faster to use some free cloning software to duplicate the drive, then swap the SSD. You’ll need a £15 caddy for the SSD to use as a usb whilst it’s cloned.
Or alternatively just plug it into a free SATA slot using the cable you probably got with the drive.
windows 10 is tied to the computer BIOS, once you reinstall windows 10 it will reactivate itself…
This.
Once you activate W10 on a PC it's activated for life barring any major hardware changes, you don't need a key. And if you did you could use your W7 key.
Get the media creation tool here. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10