I need to put a new SSD in a laptop but do not know how to download windows back on.

[Ferrariassassin]

My Friend has a laptop they use which has Windows 7 on it. They do not care if everything is deleted they mainly want the SSD in it. The SSD is a Kingston 120Gb which is nt as good as Intel or Samsung but they just use the Laptop for browsing and such. THe question is, how in the world do i get windows 7 to it? I have many WIndows 8, 8.1, and 10 disks layign around but never downloaded Windows 7. So do they need to buy a Windows 7 disk and than download Windows 7 like how a home built PC is done and than put the Windows 7 key from tha Laptop in? I do not know how to do this lol. The SSD is in and is working perfect but how do i get Windows 7 to it? I do not have a Data Migration cable because they want a fresh install.

 

[Wolfshadw]

If the laptop did not come with an installation disk, there is likely a restore partition on the drive and some mechanism to create a Windows install disk from that partition. Check with the laptop manufacturer on how to do this.

-Wolf sends

 

[dudeman509]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

 

[Ferrariassassin]

If the laptop did not come with an installation disk, there is likely a restore partition on the drive and some mechanism to create a Windows install disk from that partition. Check with the laptop manufacturer on how to do this.

-Wolf sends

I ordered a Sata to USB so maybe i can use that? Like cant i plug the new SSD to the laptop and download a program to copy all to the SSD? The laptop is only using 50GB right now.

 

[Wolfshadw]

If you have both the HDD with the OS and the SSD installed, you can try to clone the HDD over to the SSD, remove the HDD and place the SSD in the HDDs slot and then try to boot from the SSD.

Otherwise, you can download the Windows 7 ISO from the link that Dudeman provided and perform a clean install on the SSD.

-Wolf sends