
If you need to swap hard drive of Windows 10, please prepare a well-matched screwdrivers.

Prepare a SATA-to-USB adapter or encloser to connect SSD if you are using a laptop or your computer only has one slot. And, you may receive error message like "You need to format the disk before you can use it". In general, a disk without initializing cannot be used normally. Initialize and format SSD for Windows 10 install. To do fresh or clean install, it's better to back up files that are important to you, since personal data on the old hard drive will be removed during the process. To prevent unexpected system failures, you could backup the system as well, this is especially important for a novice. Preparations before Windows 10 Installationīefore you start, it is quite necessary to know what should be pay attention to, no matter which approach you'll take.īack up important data.



To be specific, an SSD is based on NAND flash memory technology and uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently. It is known to all that SSD (short for solid-state disk) provides better performance while using as a boot drive, comparing to HDDs. I'm not sure that I know how to properly identify the OS files. What is the best/easiest procedure for extracting the old Windows 10 OS from the old hard drive. I would like to keep the old WD 1T hard drive as a storage drive. I want to do a clean install of Windows 10 OS on a new ssd and make this the boot drive.
