Moving windows 10 to a new drive

Recently i bought a notebook where genuine windows 10 is already installed. But unfortunately it just has a SATA 1TB hdd and it is rather slower sometimes. So now i want to move to a SSD drive. But the question is my genuine windows… Will i be able to move this genuine windows 10 from my old HDD to a new SSD? And also i was not given any windows installation disk when i bought my laptop…plz help me…

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Yes, you have a couple options for moving the installation:

Option 1: you can create a recovery drive, install the new SSD then reinstall Windows 10:

How to: Create a Recovery Drive for reinstalling Windows 10

Option 2:

You can download the Media Creation Tool. create a bootable copy then perform a clean install:

Step 1: How to download official Windows 10 ISO files

Step 2: How to: Perform a clean install of Windows 10

Option 3: You can clone the existing install to the SSD:

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/clone-move-windows-10-data-larger-ssd-disk-drive/

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