Windows 10: W11 : How to transfer W11 from a hard-drive into the PC to an SSD attached by USB

Hi,The hard-drive on my PC has become slow, and I wish to upgrade to an SSD.How do I transfer the W11 to the SSD?Can I keep the old hard-drive in-situ and transfer the W11 install via USB to the SSD, and then replace the old HDD with this new one?Thanks, Alex

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W11 on SSD won't boot to login unless former SSD with W10 is attached to PC

I bought a new SSD and installed Windows 11 on it but anytime I want to boot to it, I can't unless my former drive with now inactive Win 10 installed on it is also attached to the PC.

I am on a Z390-H with 9900K.

My W11 drive is on the CPU M.2 and the former W10 is on the chipset M.2 slot. I have used BIOS to change the boot order and used CSM but the trouble is that it won't boot into it directly without having selected (WINDOWS BOOT MANAGER drive) from the boot order. If I don't have the W10 drive attached I can't access my W11 at all.

There is a 553MB partition (recovery part) but on the W10 drive there is a 99MB (EFI System Part) I suspect that this is the culprit.

With only the W11 drive attached it goes directly into BIOS no matter what.

So what I want is to get help on how to have the W11 drive be bootable autonomously.

I have tried using the recovery part to boo into the drive but it won't do give me the option, the system restarts and i'm back in either BIOS or the recovery screen.

 

How to transfer W10 License to W11

I stupidly thought that if I was going to have a new PC, I might as well put W11 on it and, as I mentioned, having had problems which could not be solved with one PC when I upgraded from W7 to W10, I got afraid of having something similar happen when switching from W10 to W11, silly of me I guess, especially now that I find out that W11 is still half baked with (luckily until now) small problems that are more irritating than crimpling. I actually blew a couple of dollar on an additional 1TB SSD-M2 yesterday to do just what you suggest and I feel like a fool for buying W11.

 

Dual-boot PC - w11 or w10 - Restore PC to a Restore Point in w11 or w10

Dual-boot PC - w11 or w10 - Restore PC to a Restore Point in w11 or w10

HOW TO CHOOSE e.g. Windows 10 and PROCEED TO SYSTEM RESTORATION without affecting the other Windows 11????