Windows 10: Replacing a laptop hard drive with a SSD

I have a Dell Latitude E5420 laptop which has a Windows 10 Pro O/S. I would appreciate a step by step guide on the procedure to replace the hard drive with a Solid State drive; specifically dealing with the transfer of all the software from the old drive to the new. I have an external hard drive I use for backups and a free version of the Macrium Reflect program on the hard drive. The SSD is brand new. I have just 50 GB in total on the 231 GB hard drive. The SSD has 250 GB capacity.

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Removing laptop hard drive and replacing with SSD?

You don't need to do a clean install. I would do this:

1. Use Reflect to image all partitions to an external drive and create a Reflect USB boot drive
2. Remove the hard drive and install the SSD
3. Boot to the Reflect recovery drive and restore the Reflect image to the SSD. All should work fine

You could then put the now spare hard drive in an external USB disk caddy.

 

replace hard drive with SSD


I have a laptop with a 1 TB hard drive. I am only using about 300 GB. Can I replace my 1 TB hard drive with a 500 GB SSD?

 

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.