HDD crashed, broken, not sure what to do

[Mythrilguy]

Hi, so I just recently had my laptops HDD crash and for some reason it makes a clicking sound when it boots and nothing happens. I assume it's dead because I've tried opening it up, carefully, to fix it and nothing works. I'm not worried about recovering any files as it was just games and programs I can redownload.

I'm looking to get a new drive and want an SSD. Basically what I'm planning doing is getting one I'll use for a new PC that I plan on building in a few months. I want to use the drive for my current laptop and transtion it over when I build my new PC. My question is, how would I go about installing Windows 10 on the new drive. I can get a windows 10 student free from my college and I can also get windows 7 ultimate upgrade free as well as a recovery disc I can use to install windows. Would I just get the disc and use the Win7 key or use the win10 key and upgrade from there. I don't want to get the Win7 upgrade key and find out I could only use it if I had Win7 home premium. I don't like win10 so hats why I'm considering 7 and the win10 edition is student so I don't want that.

Thanks for the help.

 

[JaredDM]

If you had already installed Windows 10 on the machine, then you can just download the Windows installation media creation tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Just skip the part where it asks for a license key during installation. When you get online for the first time, it'll automatically put in your old key and re-activate itself. It's one smart thing Microsoft actually did.