Migrating from HDD to sdd on laptop

Arjun Sharma 1511 · July 7, 2018

So I was planning to upgrade my laptop's HDD to an SSD... My laptop came with windows 10 and ms office student 2016.. What I wanted to know was, is there any way using which I could I upgrade my HDD to the SSD without loosing both the windows 10 and ms office that came pre-installed ?? My laptop's model is in the attached picture...

Edited July 7, 2018 by Arjun Sharma 1511

ScottWood · July 7, 2018

You could clone the HDD to the SSD assuming you have enough space on the target disk. I think... i haven’t done it in ages but windows is bound to the motherboard of the laptop meaning that you can reinstall windows from a USB (you can make one of these using a download from Microsoft) then it will self-activate.

As for the Office licence that should be linked with your Microsoft account so you would be able to reactivate it by signing in once you have reinstalled it.

Benliam12 · July 7, 2018

Depending of the size of you SSD you can clone your current HDD to your SSD. If you buy a Samsung SSD there is a software that comes with it (I used it in the pass) Its really userfriendly.

Of course, there is other softwares to do so but to my personal experience, Samsung's is a good choise. Its SSD are also very good. I had no issues what so ever with them.

After cloning, well this is the HARD part (Joking), you gotta swap the disks