HDD to SSD

[MultiBros]

So I have my hdd and I have windows 10, anyway through odd circumstances I now have a 256 gig ssd and now I want to insta windows 10 on the ssd but I don’t know how to go about it, can I just install it on the ssd and reformat the hdd and all will be well?

[BobVonBob]

Yep. You will lose all the data on the HDD when you format it though, so back up anything you want to keep.

[MultiBros]

15 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

Yep. You will lose all the data on the HDD when you format it though, so back up anything you want to keep.

I should clarify my hdd I’d be reformatting is my OS drive (C drive)

[BobVonBob]

15 minutes ago, MultiBros said:

I should clarify my hdd I’d be reformatting is my OS drive (C drive)

I figured, but if you have stuff like your documents folder you want to keep then back that up on a flash drive.

[Pickles von Brine]

1 hour ago, Skylly said:

Migrate Windows 10 to SSD by cloning the system drive or the entire system disk to SSD with the assistance of MiniTool partition wizard, but before you migrate Windows 10 to SSD, please note the disk space of SSD can't be smaller than the used disk space of the source disk. You can refer to this tutorial including two tools  for this job, Check it out here:https://www.partitionwizard.com/clone-disk/migrate-windows-10.html

And beaten to the punch. 
 

To directly answer your question OP, you can take your SSD, put it into your system and just install windows on it. Just make sure to set it as the primary boot device. Afterward, pull all data you want over from your hard drive (or back it up) and wipe the original drive.