Windows 10: Recover Windows 10 on new SSD

I have an HP notebook that came with Windows 10 & I have recently created HP recovery media.

How can I re-install the licensed Windows 10 that came on my laptop on a replacement drive SSD if my HP Recovery media fails?

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New SSD with Recovery USB not recovering Windows 10

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Recovering Windows 10 to new SSD

Two months ago, I bought a new Asus desktop PC with Win10 preinstalled. Last week, I bought and installed an SSD. It was my intent to clone the old hard drive onto the new one using the software included with the drive (from Acronis) but that failed.
Being pretty tech savvy, I tried to fix the problem myself, but one thing led to another and now Windows cannot boot, either from the SSD or from the original mechanical drive.

A fellow tech savvy friend and I have surmised that the original SSD was defective, so I bought another one and plan to install it tomorrow morning. I created a recovery drive (with the OS files included) before I installed the defective drive, so I have
a means to recover Windows to the new SSD. This leads me to my question.

Does Windows Recovery create the necessary partitions for you, or is it something I need to do myself? Since I have a new system, it runs on UEFI instead of BIOS, and I'm pretty unfamiliar with using utilities (e.g. DISKPART) to create them from scratch.
So, if I need to do anything to the new drive before running the recovery, I'd appreciate a step-by-step walkthrough.

The computer was a Microsoft Signature Edition Asus, so my recovery drive is as plain vanilla as one can get.

Thanks,

Luke