Windows 10: how to install Win10 on a new Drive (same pc) and keep my license

Hi,

I bought a new SSD drive, and i want to install windows 10 on it.
Can you please tell me what are my option to do that AND keep my windows 10 registered ?

Thank you

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Keeping Windows license when changing hard drive

Hello.

I have two laptops, the old one came with pre-installed Win7 and I upgraded to Win10, and the new one had Win10 pre-installed. The hard drive on my old laptop is failing and I need to replace it, and I was wondering if and how it is possible to keep the
Windows license?

In the Activation tab in Settings, both laptops say "Windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account", I hope they don't interfere with each other as it's the same account.

Can I recover the license when I log in to my account from a freshly installed Win10? And if I do, can I then change the Microsoft account linked to that computer?

 

installing new hard drive

i need to install a new hard drive in my laptop. How do i use my existing win10 license

 

You can clone your old drive to the new one then it will boot with everything still working or you can do a clean install no need for serial number it's all stored on ms so it will active if your logging in with a ms account

 

alaslipknot,

Some info here:
How to re-activate Windows 10 after a hardware change | Windows Central

 

Changing the drive doesn't affect your digital licence or activation.

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/win...tions-answered

 

I didn't find any way to only clone the OS, my HDD is 2TB, while the SSD is only 250GB, i need to do a fresh install on it first

 

MiniTool Partition Wizard and Macrium Reflect Free are two programs that will both clone the OS for free.