Windows 10: My old ssd is not working. Can I install windows 11 on my new SSD without the old one?

SSD replacement and windows installation.

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New windows 10 installtion on New SSD - wont boot unless old SSD present

It seems you installed Windows while the both SSDs were connected. This would have caused your current problem. Maybe it is sufficient to do this:

1. Launch the Disk Manager.
2. Right-click drive C:, then mark it as "active".
3. Shut down Windows
4. Open the BIOS and tell it that the new SSD is the primary boot device.
5. Disconnect the old SSD.
6. Boot up normally.

If this does not work then you might have to do this:

1. Disconnect the old SSD.
2. Re-install Windows on the new SSD, using the Media Creation Tool.

 

Old SSD to new computer

I have an old SSD that I would like to install and use on a new computer that already has one SSD and on HD. Windows is installed on the new computer on the SSD. However, windows was also installed on the old SSD I would like to move to the new computer.
When I hook up the old SSD windows will not start and goes to blue screen with options to recover, use different version of windows, etc. As soon as I disconnect it, windows boots right up again. How do I format the old one to get windows off of it to use
it as storage?

 

Activate windows 11 randomly, recently installed new SSD and cloned old one to it?

Hi.

I recently installed a new M.2 NVMe SSD and clonsed my old SSD to it, and formatted the old SSD. It was all fine, and has been for about a month. A few days ago it has asked me to reactivate windows again. Troubleshooter doesn't work, I can't seem to find a contact number anywhere, or online chat support. I can't get my product key as it's not on the PC tower itself and I purchased it a couple years ago. It was Windows 10, but upgraded to Windows 11.

How do I fix this?