Windows 10: I cloned my data to an SSD from my HDD, how do I go about switching Windows from HDD to SSD.

I installed a M.2 SATA SSD [Western Digital Blue 250GB], on my laptop. Then I reformated my laptop and used Macrium Reflect to clone it to my SSD. In which I think the process was succesful. However the windows doesn't switch to SSD, which makes me unable to reformat my HDD. I would like any help with this.

Laptop: HP Pavillion 15
OS: Windows 10

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Clone HDD to a SSD

I'm planing to upgrade my new laptop HDD to SSD while using my HDD as a storage media on my laptop. My laptop came with windows 10 Home OEM. If I cloned the HDD will the windows be activated after I
cloned or will it be deactivated?? And what happend to other activated softwares like MS Office and Antivirus Softwares???

Thank you for your support.

 

Real time SSD cloning to my HDD

Hi Jakov

May I first ask, currently do you have Windows installed on the SSD and your applications installed on your HDD, or are your applications currently installed on the SSD along with Windows?

As far as I know, if you try to clone your SSD onto that HDD, all data on that HDD will be wiped, I don't think you can clone an SSD onto a partition of another drive . ..

Do you ultimately want to put Windows onto the HDD, just have the one drive on your system and connect your EXP GDC to the the MS port?

 

HDD to SSD

I don't understand why you changed the boot order in your BIOS.

When you image or clone an HDD, and restore the image or clone to an SSD, you've got an identical copy of your computer on a different hard drive. Nothing has changed, really. So the next step is to remove the HDD from your computer and replace it with the
SSD, then carry on as normal.