Windows 10: How do I reinstall my licensed windows 11 to my newly brought SSD without cloning?

I recently bought an M.2 NVME SSD for my laptop which only had a 1TB HDD since I bought my laptop. So my windows 11 is in my HDD as of now and I would like to reinstall it in my SSD without cloning, So is there any way through which I can do this? I read an article regarding the same but it was for windows 10 and it mentioned that you will have to download the "Create Windows 10 Installation Media" from the official Microsoft website and simply take a bootable USB Pen drive and flash that ISO file in it and once done with this process restart and boot your system via that bootable pen drive an

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Moving to SSD. Clone or not to clone?

I kinda agree with you, but on a wholr, do not. While I have done things a bit differently than this specific situation, by installing Windows directly to the SSD, and cloning after, my testing shows that there are no issues doing this, very little that can go wrong, provided your system is stable.

There are certain features that must be disabled in this situation, like auto defrag and such, but even with a fresh install to the SSD, you need to take steps to ensure that you SSD performs properly, regardless of how the data got there.

Arming yourself with a bit of knowledge can go a long way.

Installing the latest chipset driver, and the RST Tools, will ensure optimal performance of the SSD. but rather than taking my advice, I suggest the OP takes a look here:

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sand...7-and-ssds-to-clone-windows-or-reinstall.aspx

Install A Solid State Drive In Your Notebook

Keep in mind, also, Digibucc, that many retail drives include software and such that very specifically is to be used to ttranser the OS from an existing mechanical drive to an SSD, and if there really was alot fo issues stemming from the cloning process, they would not have packages like that, simply to eliminate tech support costs. While not the optimal option, cloning is NOT a bad thing, as long as you take the nessecary steps.

 

Moving to SSD. Clone or not to clone?

Part of how I keep my SSD fast is to clone it to a platter drive, then clone back. You just want to make sure that you are only cloning teh used space, and not the empty space.


So, again, I isntall Windows to the ssd. Clone to platter drive, then clone back.

I am not sure why, but if I do not do the clone step, the drive's speed, and windows booting, decreases substantially within a week or so.

I am using a Corsair F60 SSD and a Western Digital 500AAKS as drives, and using the free version of Acronis that WD provides, if any of that matters. I am not sure, at this point.

 

Moving to SSD. Clone or not to clone?

It is ?. Acronis has NEVER gave me a issue and thats including cloning to and from SSD.


Go to the WD site and download Acronis and clone your Raptor to the SSD and see how it goes. At worsed a little lost time but what the hell right ?.