Windows 10: Want to change which drive windows is located on!

Hey!

I'm sitting on my windows 7 here, ready to upgrade to windows 10 with the "Get Windows" app.

One complication though is that I'm running on an old harddrive. One of those simple SATA disks.

I got my hands on a new SSD disk which I would prefer to have windows on.

So.

How could I in the simplest way get windows 10 and have it installed on my new SSD?

Should I upgrade to windows 10 to begin with?

Thanks alot for all help!

:)

 

I recently bought a new Windows 10 laptop and have been having issues changing the default save location for documents, apps, music, etc.

Original Title - Changing default save locations

I recently bought a new Windows 10 laptop and have been having issues changing the default save location for documents, apps, music, etc. I go into the storage settings and change the default location from say, One Drive to the C Drive, apply changes, then
close out of the settings window. When I open the settings window again, the save locations have reverted back to what they were before I changed them. Therefore, I routinely have to manually navigate through drives to save each item where I want it, which
should be fixed by using the default locations. Any assistance with this issue would be much appreciated!

Thank you

 

I wanted to change the location where the maps downloaded by windows are already saved.

It seems to me that you misunderstood my question.

What i want to know is that how does one change the default location where windows maps saves the downloaded offline maps.
The maps will automatically be downloaded somewhere in the c-drive i want to change this default location to the d-drive.

 

The free version has to be installed as an upgrade once, if you want it to activate. Later installations are supposed to activate, if installed on the same hardware.

The obvious thing to do would be to clone the old disk to the new SSD. (Most SSDs come with software to do that, or have software available for download from the SSD manufacturer's web site.) Upgrade that.

That will be difficult if you have more stuff on the old HD than you have space on the SSD.

It may be possible to run the upgrade on the old HD. remove it, install the SSD, and do a clean install on the SSD. The change will alter the hardware hash that is sent to the activation server, but I hope that the change will be within the range that the server will recognize as the same hardware. It ought to be: a dead hard drive is one of the likeliest repairs on a PC.

One way or another, you should be able to install and activate 10 on your SSD.

As to whether you should upgrade, only you can say. 10 has a better user interface than Windows 8, but many people prefer Windows 7. From my point of view, most the changes with 10 are of little immediate value. I'm going with it because I'm not a power user, so it won't destroy my workflow. (I also hope for some cool stuff with DirectX 12, once software that supports it becomes available.)

 

You have to upgrade to get the free version of Windows 10. Once you've done that you can clone it to the new SSD or Clean Install to the new SSD.