Windows 10: Migrating Windows Settings & other data from W10 Home install on SSD to W10 Pro on new NVMe

I recently bought and assembled a new PC. I decided not to "upgrade" my old Windows 10 Home install to W10 Pro, primarily because it wasn't clear if it would allow me to do so with the newly-installed W10 Pro being on a different drive than the current Home version install.Also, I had trouble reactivating the Home version after the hardware change I think the key I got for it might be an OEM one. So I was concerned there would be complications doing an "upgrade", rather than a clean OS install.I am hoping there is some way to simply copy all of the various Windows theme, shortcut, and other

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New W10 Install Slower On NVME Than SSD

...which can be reduced to 1sec if go to: Control panel/System/Advanced system settings/




Startup and recovery/Settings=>Time to display list of operating system.




1sec is enough because, during boot screen, you can immediately stop timer by hitting any key or touch your touchpad/mouse.

 

Migrating Data from SSD to NVME

Hi all. I recently built a new ryzen system and went through the entire windows 10 installation on my new samasung 960 pro NVMe and got everything to work. However, after doing so I realized I would rather just clone my old samsung 840 pro ssd, which was my original boot drive that contained my windows 10 install, to this new 960 pro. I was able to boot into the old windows ssd on my new system and have since wiped and re-formatted my 960 pro NVMe. I have macrium reflect installed and ready to go to perform the clone. The questions I have are as follows:

1.) On my original 840 pro windows install the drive has a System reserve (I*Smile drive partition, Healthy (Recovery) partition, and my main partition with the windows install. Do I need to clone all three of these partitions over to my NVMe drive? My 960 Pro drive currently has it's own Healthy (Recovery) partition, Healthy (EFI system) partition, and the main re-formatted empty partition.
2.) My original 840 pro drive is currently formatted in the MBR partition style while my 960 pro is in the newer GPT partition style. Do I need to reformat the NVMe drive to MBR? I've heard there can be issues when cloning between these 2 different partition styles but I've also heard that new bios's can handle things fine and that GPT is better for today's drives anyway.

Any help is appreciated!

 

Installing W10 on a new SSD

Probably been asked a trillion times but I cannot find a straight forward answer.

I am soon to be changing my HDD for an SSD in my 6 month old Lenovo laptop, it came with W10 HOME pre installed with a partition for the drivers on the HDD.

If I put a new SSD in the laptop and then install W10 HOME will it automatically activate or will I have to buy a new licence as there is no key to activate on the underside of the laptop.