Windows 10: Removing laptop hard drive and replacing with SSD?

I have a laptop (HP notebook 8 gig ram) running Windows 10 as a slow ring insider. I want to remove the hard drive which is as slow as treacle and replace it with an SSD.
This requires that I do a clean install of Windows 10 on the SSD ..... My question is this: I have a USB stick with Windows 10 1909 which is bootable, I have used this on my Desktop PC so I know it works, do I need to get the Windows 10 serial number from the laptop before removing and replacing the hard drive so it can be entered on the new SSD install, or is that unnecessary?
Any other advice would be welcome, thanks in advance.

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