Question How to recover Windows 10 from a damaged old hard drive.

[tommyg_fla]

I have an Asus 510 Vivobook laptop. It had Windows 10 preinstalled on the computer when I purchased it. I do not have the original Windows10 software. The old harddrive is damaged and makes a grinding sound when it operates. I was able to use Windows 10 tools to access some hard drive elements but cannot copy any files or I cannot install any new files onto the damaged disk. I cannot clone the old hard drive. I purchased a Samsung 1Tb 870 Evo SSD and using a 2.5: SATA hard drive to USB3.0 cable was able to format and partition the new Samsung 870 1T hard drive as an external hard drive with my other desktop. The question I have is how do I install Windows 10 OS onto the new Samsung 870 hard drive. I was able to create a Windows 10 USB rescue USB but I do not have the original Windows 10 installation software. These are the files on the Windows 10 USB drive
Volume in drive F is ESD-USB
Volume Serial Number is 68BC-805A

Directory of F:\

12/04/2023 05:45 AM 128 autorun.inf
01/03/2024 10:23 AM <DIR> boot
12/04/2023 05:45 AM 413,738 bootmgr
12/04/2023 05:45 AM 1,574,256 bootmgr.efi
01/03/2024 10:23 AM <DIR> efi
12/04/2023 05:45 AM 74,184 setup.exe
01/03/2024 10:23 AM <DIR> sources
01/03/2024 10:31 AM <DIR> support
01/03/2024 10:32 AM <DIR> Winflash_Win10_64_ver32100
01/03/2024 10:39 AM <DIR> Asus510LaptopDrivers
07/24/2024 03:42 PM 31 win10USBMain.txt
5 File(s) 2,062,337 bytes
6 Dir(s) 28,382,396,416 bytes free

I have also downloaded and copied all the laptop hardware drives onto the USB drive.

Can I use the date on the USB drive to install the Windows10 OS and drivers onto the external hard drive before I remove and replace the old damaged hard drive from the ASUS laptop. Unsure of what path I take to install the hardware drivers and OS on the new Samsung hard drive. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Tom

 

[SkyNetRising]

1. Prepare windows 10 install media on USB flash drive (8GB or larger). https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
2. Remove old damaged drive from laptop.
3. Install new drive.
4. Boot from prepared windows install media and install windows.

Tutorial:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-do-clean-installation-windows-10,36160.html

 

[USAFRet]

Unsure of what path I take to install the hardware drivers and OS on the new Samsung hard drive.

A fresh OS install, on the new drive while it is in the system. Not in the external.

The above linked tutorial will do it.