Windows 10: Replacing old HD with SSD - product key question

The hard drive in my laptop is dying. I am upgrading to an SSD this weekend. I have a couple of hopefully quick questions.

My laptop originally came with Windows 8.1. As soon as I was able to I did the free upgrade to Windows 10. I really do not want to purchase a copy of Windows 10. I do have a partition on my hard drive that will allow me to create a bootable installation USB drive. But I think that would be 8.1 again (original OS). Yesterday my computer updated to the 1803 update for Windows.

I see there is a tutorial on the use of the Media Creation Tool and/or Rufus. I can follow that. My question is if my product key will be valid with a new hard drive? Or will my product key only work for an 8.1 installation?

Thank you in advance for any help that you can give. It is very much appreciated.

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Upgrading a Windows 10 Laptop from HD to SSD.

Hi Ratnam,

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community.

Are you using both the hard drives or do you want to completely transfer all the data and OS from HD to SSD?

If you need to transfer everything then you need to install OS on SSD and transfer the data from HD to SSD.

• You need to have a product key for Windows 7, then create an installation media using the download link.
  Download Windows 10:Download Windows 10
• Later install Windows 10 on SSD and activate it using the product key.
• Then transfer (Copy and paste) the data from HD to SSD.

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If the issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.

 

activation lost after replacing hd by ssd

I upgraded my laptop to windows 10. no problem

replaced my hard drive with an ssd . Cloned

After booting up I got the message laptop is not accivated.

Back to the old drive. Laptop is activated.

How do I solve this

jan