Windows 10: Reinstalling Win 10 to a SSD drive

I have a desktop that I built myself I bought and installed Win 7 as it was the latest OS at the time. Eventually I did the free upgrade to Win 10. My question is I bought a new SSD drive and would like to do a clean install of Windows 10 on it . Since I only have the win 7 installation CD and not a win 10. I am not sure if i need to buy the win 10 software or is there some way I can use my current win 10 on my new ssd drive.


Thanks for your help

pk

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Hard drives listed as SSD drives

Upgraded to Win 10 Pro from Win 7 Pro.

Have 2 Hard drives in Raid 1 set up.

Win 10 lists these drives as SSD drives in System Properties.

How do I change the listing of these drives to HD so I can optimize them?

 

Tranferring Win 10 to SSD

Option 1:

If the SSD is equal in size to the drive it is replacing, you could create a system image saved to an external drive then restore.

• How
  to: Create a system image in Windows 10
• How
  to restore a Windows 10 system image to an existing or larger storage device

Option 2:

You can download the free Easeus ToDo Back and use it to clone the drive the restore it. Learn how:

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/clone-move-windows-10-data-larger-ssd-disk-drive/

Option 3:

Download, create a bootable copy then reinstall Windows 10:

Option 1:

• 
  How to: Create a Recovery Drive for
  reinstalling Windows 10
  

Option 2:

Step 1: How to download official Windows 10 ISO files

Step 2:

• 
  How to: Perform a clean install of Windows
  10
  

 

Clean reinstall windows 10 on new ssd--windows novice

Step 1: create a recovery drive:

How
to: Create a Recovery Drive for reinstalling Windows 10

Step 2: shutdown the computer then install the new SSD.

Step 3: Boot from the recovery drive and follow the instructions to reinstall Windows 10.

Another option is to clone the current drive, then restore it on the new SSD:

How to Migrate Windows 10 to SSD(Solid State Disk) - EaseUS