I bought a HDD and a SSD, put windows on HDD. Switch help

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Basically I bought my whole setup which included a SSD and a HDD. When I was installing Windows 10 it didn't decet the SSD, so I thought "hun, this is wierd but I gotta get this done before tomorrow morning" (Trust me, I had limited time). So I contuined to install Windows on a HDD, cause of time and 2AM me was saying "if you restart you will lose your windows key". So I got Windows set up might fine on my HDD, now I want to wipe that install and switch it all over to my SSD.
Thank you very much for reading that wall of text if you made it this far.


Also I have seen similar questions anwsered to this problem, I was just to late to resond to get a better understanding.
 
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Hi there,

So I assume you are able to see the SSD now? If this is the case, you could follow this tutorial: http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows. Once you make sure that you can boot tow Windows properly with just the SSD connected to the motherboard, you can go ahead and connect the HDD as well. Then reformat it and use it as a secondary storage drive.

Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Boogieman_WD
Hi there,

So I assume you are able to see the SSD now? If this is the case, you could follow this tutorial: http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows. Once you make sure that you can boot tow Windows properly with just the SSD connected to the motherboard, you can go ahead and connect the HDD as well. Then reformat it and use it as a secondary storage drive.

Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Boogieman_WD
 
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