Windows 10: Upgrading hard disk with SSD, but I don't have my Microsoft account anymore

I forgot my Microsoft password and It cannot be recovered through email I want to upgrade my Harddisk with SSD will there be any activation issues after a fresh install?

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Installing SSD & Clean install

As long as you don`t change your motherboard you`re fine, you can install windows on any ssd/hard drive you want.

The Digital License is also connected to your Microsoft Account.

You don`t need to enter any key when installing W10 on the SSD, just choose Skip this Step, it will self activate once you get online.

 

Hard Rectangular Drive Could be the Hard Disk Answer to SSDs

You're probably right but until SSD's come down to a more reasonable price-level, I'm all for this kind of stuff. Can probably be a perfect stepping-stone from HDD to SSD.

If it ever gets to stores that is *Smile

 

SSD not being shown in disk management

Western Digital got back to me and this solved my problem:

Thank you for your continued response.

Please perform the steps mentioned below to run Diskpart. Please note that following steps will erase all the data on the SSD including partitions and boot sector.

1. Open Command Prompt, Click on Start - Run - Type cmd and hit Enter.

2. Type diskpart, and then press ENTER to open the diskpart tool.

3. Type list disk, and then press ENTER. A list of available hard disks is displayed.

4. Type sel disk #number, and then press ENTER. Number is the number of the hard disk that you want to clean. The hard disk is now selected.

5. Type det disk, and then press ENTER. A list of partitions on the hard disk is displayed. Use this information to verify that the correct disk is selected.

6. Make sure that the disk does not contain required data, type clean all, and then press ENTER to clean the disk. All the partitions and all the data on the disk is permanently removed.

7. Type exit, and then press ENTER to close