Windows 10: Currently have Windows 10 & am upgrading the hard drive. Easiest way?

Discus and support Currently have Windows 10 & am upgrading the hard drive. Easiest way? in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; I bought this laptop a couple months ago and it had Windows 10 pre-installed on it. It has a 500gb hard drive and I needed more space so I purchased a... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by ZQ8 Blazer, Dec 13, 2015.

  1. ZQ8 BLAZER
    ZQ8 Blazer Win User

    Currently have Windows 10 & am upgrading the hard drive. Easiest way?


    I bought this laptop a couple months ago and it had Windows 10 pre-installed on it. It has a 500gb hard drive and I needed more space so I purchased a 1tb hard drive. I was wanting to just create a Windows 10 boot flash drive, install the new hard drive, install Windows 10, then connect the old hard drive to my hard drive usb enclosure and manually move over the files to the new hard drive. Is this possible to do without downloading Windows 10? Basically what I want is once I install the new hard drive and turn the laptop on I want Windows 10 to be just like it was when I purchased it without the pictures, videos, documents, etc that I have put on it. Thanks I really appreciate your help.

    :)
     
    ZQ8 Blazer, Dec 13, 2015
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  2. JACK WEST 5412
    JACK WEST 5412 Win User

    ms office pro 2016

    How am I able to get MS Office reinstalled on a new computer with a current product key. Lost hard drive on previous PC.

    <Moved from: Windows / Windows 10 / Install & upgrade>
     
    JACK WEST 5412, Dec 13, 2015
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  3. PETEWILLIAMSXXX
    PeteWilliamsXXX Win User
    Windows 10

    I am currently running WiNDOWS 10 and want to upgrade to anniversary. I currently have Windows saved on an SSD but do not have enough space to download the upgrade so want to put it on the internal hard drive, how is best to tell it to write to my E drive
    instead of the SSD which is the C drive.

    Many thanls
     
    PeteWilliamsXXX, Dec 13, 2015
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  4. NAVYLCDR
    NavyLCDR New Member

    Currently have Windows 10 & am upgrading the hard drive. Easiest way?

    NavyLCDR, Dec 13, 2015
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  5. WHS
    whs Win User
    whs, Dec 13, 2015
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  6. ZQ8 BLAZER
    ZQ8 Blazer Win User
    ZQ8 Blazer, Dec 13, 2015
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  7. NAVYLCDR
    NavyLCDR New Member
    What you are doing is no different than if your hard drive failed and you had to install it to a new replacement hard drive. That's exactly why a recovery drive with the system files copied to it would be used. The alternative is to download a Windows 10 ISO file to make your install USB from - but you said you didn't want to download Windows 10 in your OP.

    A Macrium Reflect clone or image would also transfer everything you have saved (if you only have a C: drive with both Windows and your data files.)
     
    NavyLCDR, Dec 13, 2015
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  8. ZQ8 BLAZER
    ZQ8 Blazer Win User

    Currently have Windows 10 & am upgrading the hard drive. Easiest way?

    Ok thank you for all your help. I'd just download Windows 10, but with my current internet speed it always get to 99% and then fails for some reason.
     
    ZQ8 Blazer, Dec 13, 2015
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  9. WHS
    whs Win User
    Can you go to some internet cafe or a friend and download it to a USB stick.
     
    whs, Dec 13, 2015
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  10. ZQ8 BLAZER
    ZQ8 Blazer Win User
    oh I can go to my parents house, but I was wanting to do this tonight.
     
    ZQ8 Blazer, Dec 13, 2015
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  11. WHS
    whs Win User
    Yeah, but if the line cops out, you have to make an alternate plan.

    Re Macrium imaging - with Macrium you image partitions. So whatever is in the partition you image will be transported in the image.
     
    whs, Dec 13, 2015
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  12. ZQ8 BLAZER
    ZQ8 Blazer Win User
    Ok I created the recovery drive, turned the laptop off, put the new drive in, and it said it was missing a partition. I turned put everything back the way it was, opened up Disk Management, and the new hard drive says:
    New Volume (G*Smile
    931.51 GB NTFS
    Healthy (Primary Version)

    What am I doing wrong?
     
    ZQ8 Blazer, Apr 4, 2018
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