Windows 10: can I put my old SSD in my new laptop and then upgrade to the windows version the new...

My old laptop stopped working. It had Windows 11 Home on it but it also has a 2TB SSD that will go into my new laptop which comes with a smaller SSD and Windows 11 64 Pro. I would like to keep all my programs and files without doing a drive clone or reloading my programs. Can I put my old SSD in my new laptop and then upgrade to the windows version the new laptop came with using it's product key? Thanks Dan

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New windows 10 installtion on New SSD - wont boot unless old SSD present

It seems you installed Windows while the both SSDs were connected. This would have caused your current problem. Maybe it is sufficient to do this:

1. Launch the Disk Manager.
2. Right-click drive C:, then mark it as "active".
3. Shut down Windows
4. Open the BIOS and tell it that the new SSD is the primary boot device.
5. Disconnect the old SSD.
6. Boot up normally.

If this does not work then you might have to do this:

1. Disconnect the old SSD.
2. Re-install Windows on the new SSD, using the Media Creation Tool.

 

Removing old SSD with windows home, upgrading new SSD with windows pro

So, I have 3 drives on my PC a really old SSD (8-10years) that only houses windows, a newer SSD (3 years old) that has active files and software that require licenses such as Photoshop and bluebeam, then an HDD that stores all inactive files.

I am looking to upgrade both SSDs that I have bought. Both the current SSDs are sata and I'm adding 2 m.2 drives. I need to know the steps as far as doing resets or going into command prompts, etc so that I can remove the old SSD with windows completely, and add a fresh version of windows to my new m.2 drive without losing any other data on the PC. Going from windows 10 home to windows 11 pro if that helps.

Thanks for your help.

 

Old SSD to new computer

I have an old SSD that I would like to install and use on a new computer that already has one SSD and on HD. Windows is installed on the new computer on the SSD. However, windows was also installed on the old SSD I would like to move to the new computer.
When I hook up the old SSD windows will not start and goes to blue screen with options to recover, use different version of windows, etc. As soon as I disconnect it, windows boots right up again. How do I format the old one to get windows off of it to use
it as storage?