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I currently have a HP 2000 laptop computer that was bought with Win8/8.1 (I can't remember) pre-installed. A few years back, I did the free upgrade to Windows 10. The computer has gotten slow and it needs to be cleaned up so I went to BestBuy and purchased a 240 GB SSD.
- Windows 10 fresh install on SSD very slow boot: Hey guys, I recently formatted my SSD because of problems in my Windows 10. I did as ever. I did as ever. Start the installation of Windows, chose the disk, delete all partitions, created partitions again and choose to install Windows 10.
- How to install Windows 10 on SSD Step 1. Launch EaseUS Partition Master and navigate Wizard Migrate OS to SSD/HDD from the main menu. Select SSD as destination disk. Click Yes Delete partitions on the destination disk. Resize partition size and click OK.
Jun 22, 2019 Don't try to copy the old OS from the HDD, it is much better to clean install Windows 10 on the SSD. If you do not have Windows 10 Installation Media Click HERE to download the Media Creation Tool (Click on Download Tool Now), with that you can download the latest Windows 10 ISO (Select Create Installation Media for Another PC), you can create a bootable USB flash drive (min.
My question is: How do I install Windows 10 back on this SSD, or am I out of luck? I have managed to get what I think is the OS Product key, but I believe it is a Win8 key. Do you guys know if I am still able to install Win8 and possibly upgrade it to 10 for free? Basically, what is the reinstall options with the Win8 to Win10 free upgrade path?For the record, I have tried to install windows 10 with the the product key I have (which failed). I attempted to bypass the activation at installation and put the key in later after the OS was installed. What are my other options? Am I somehow able to reset Windows 10 onto my new SSD?If all else fails, I will back up data, reset Windows and go from there but I would really like it on the SSD.Any help is very much appreciated.Thanks!
What I would do, take an 8GB usb drive and get microsofts download tool for windows 10. Let the tool set up the USB drive and download the ISO file.Install the new SSD as the only hard drive in the system and boot from the USB drive. Install windows 10 and updates till all the updates are done. Power off the machine and add the old drive into the system, once booted again from the new SSD, copy whatever info you want off the old drive and go from there. Windows 10 will 'license' fine with this method if what you stated is true about already being upgraded to windows 10. You will not even need to enter a code, when prompted for one hit the 'I do not have a code' box.EDIT: You will need to do the install for whatever other software is on your old system, unless you try out a cloning software program such as Acronis.Edit2: Just like DaSchmoo said. Clone your drive to an SSD with Acronis.
This a great tool.TIP: If you clone first you will enjoy a much faster win8 to win10 pro upgrade'As for the Key, just install win8, install the Key and upgrade through the '. It will activate.' This works great and on any valid windows OS installed on a machine. The good guys at Microsoft decided not to shut this site down after the 'forced' migration debacle.I have also had luck with the click to Install Upgrade. This is launched from inside windows with your media in the Rom or Usb drive.While it is installing it will prompt you to download updates.Click to install updates after the install. This to will speed things up by quite a bit. Your machine will go get these updates anyway later.Good Luck.
DaSchmoo wrote:If you don't want to use cloning software, the way to do this is to download the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft to create your install media and when it gets to the point of entering in a key choose the option to skip. After the install, it should automatically activate if that motherboard had Windows 10 on it before.I agree with this too. Just use the Media Creation Tool and skip adding the key. It should activate but make sure you have internet access after installing Windows 10. If you can't activate, call Microsoft and they will most likely fix this for you.
Fresh Install Windows 10 On Ssd
Hello SpiceHeads,I'm back with another question that I'm losing handful of hair over. To it simply, I'm reloading a fresh Dell XPS 8930 desktop machine so that i can use a Western Digital NAND 500GB SSD as my boot drive and then use a blank 2TB Seagate drive as pure storage.The issue(s):1. Both drives mentioned are not the originally Hard drives that came with it2. I had to disable secure boot, set the BIOS to use legacy boot to get the machine to even see my Win10 Pro usb boot key. (Also decided to change the SATA operation from the default RAID to AHCI as i cannot understand why i would need to use a RAID configuration if I'm not setting up a RAID to begin with.)3. Upon formatting the SSD, Windows 10 will not install the OS on the drive or allow me to delete the partitions I forgot only an hour ago.Now, I don't know if the changes to the BIOS/UEFI are causing a problem or whether im having a different issue entirely with the installation, but any help or insight would be wonderful.
Eric VandenBerg wrote:Rod-IT wrote:Please share the error you get formatting.My guess is the drive is MBR and you need to use GPT, secure boot should work but you may need to boot from a specific USB port and/or make sure the USB is NTFS bootable.Ok, I get what your saying and why its an issue, but how do I set the drive to GPT in place of MBR?Clean it with Diskpart. If you're UEFI booting, Windows Setup will do GPT automatically.Your error message says that the system reserved partition is damaged:Cleaning with Diskpart will take care of that as well. Big Green Man wrote:A few things:. AHCI is preferred over RAID in all scenarios (the only time it would make sense would be if you were actually using RAID, but if you needed RAID, you wouldn't be using FakeRAID). The only exception I know if is when you install Windows 7 on a NVMe drive.
What USB drive are you using and how did you make your installation media?. Clean the SSD with diskpart to make sure there are no partitions. Then try installing Windows. Is the SSD SATA or NVMe?1. I'm not, nor am i planning on ever, using a RAID configuration with this particular desktop. It just baffled me as to why Dell set it this way by default.2.
USB 2.0 8GB Kingston USB loaded with a bootable Windows 10 Pro X64 ISO that i flashed from my office computer. Ive used it in the past (created roughly 6 months ago) with no issues seen till now.
I believe i created it with PowerISO.3. The iconic discount code 20. Yeah, i noticed i cant delete any of the partitions that are usually made when i installed Win10, so ill do that.4. Rod-IT wrote:Why dont you simply download the ISO again using the MCT - Ive seen issues with other ISO to USB software, and MCT is designed specifically to make that ISO bootableWell, I haven't had any other issues with loading Windows 10 with this ISO until now, and ive loaded at least 30 machines since making it.Meanwhile, i haven't used the Media Creation Tool since Win10 was first released and wasn't fond of it.Ill probably end up flashing another key if as needed.Edited Nov 29, 2017 at 16:05 UTC.
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So far, nothing has worked. I blew away the old partitions on the SSD and worked with only fresh drives. Even used a new, freshly made Win10 pro boot key.
No dice.I ended up having to give up on the entire thing as the client I originally purchased this machine for needed installed right away,So i put in the original HDD (factory reset just play safe) and put in another 2TB to serve as the data drive.I figure I'll research this further in case someone else runs into this, but outside of this issue, its working just fine.Thanks for all the help everyone. I can't award anyone the best answer right now since i have no clear fix, but i do appreciate the input. My understanding is that RAID configuration is set up with Win 10 installed to the SDD so that advantage is taken of the caching space reserved on the SDD - this makes for a tad faster startup of Windows.
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But, the main reason, I suspect, is that Microsoft wants to make it unpleasant to install and use other operating systems in a dual boot mode.This is because having RAID instead of AHCI prevents non-Windows OSes such as Linux from detecting SDD. Yes, one can disable secure boot and install Linux, but to choose between Windows and Linux, one cannot simply click a choice of OS - every time a switch of OS is desired, one has to go through restart and F12 booting process.