Reinstalling windows 10 on ssd

syamil17

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I bought my laptop MSI GP60 on early 2014 with windows 8.1 if not mistaken. After 2 years, the old hdd is getting very slow. I have bought 120gb ssd with and I want to just have windows 10 and 1 game inside. I still want to keep my old hdd inside just for storage, meaning keeping the old files I already have inside.

First, if i were to reinstall windows 10 on ssd, how about drivers? Can I just download them from this: https://www.msi.com/Notebook/support/GP60.html#down-driver&Win8.1 64. Is it ok if I still have windows on my hdd, even after I change the boot device in the bios?

Second, should I put the ssd in the optical drive with hdd caddy or interchange it with the hdd's old location for optimal speed?
 
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Oh, that is another story, there will be no problems with activation than. I would just download all the available drivers from laptop manufacturer first. Than replace HDD with SSD and just install W10 on it. Keep other drive away until W 10 is installed. Make sure you download exactly same version of W10 as you have now, ie. Home, pro, x86, x64, same language etc.
W10 is pretty close to 8/8.1 so if everything works now, it should work even better after clean install. Most drivers are same too.
PS.
Skip entering registration during install, as soon as you connect to internet and enter your MS credentials, windows will activate.
It would be best to put it in place of old HDD and HDD to go in to caddy. Other than setting SATA to AHCI there's nothing extraordinary you have to do comparing to HDD.
Since you bought laptop with W8.1 it must be OEM version so you may be best off cloning system from HDD and than upgrading to W10 so you don't have to buy it. That way you can also keep drivers too.
 

syamil17

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Mar 18, 2016
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But I'm already on windows 10. Do I just clone it? Wouldn't it take all the personal files when cloning, as my ssd is only 120gb
 
Oh, that is another story, there will be no problems with activation than. I would just download all the available drivers from laptop manufacturer first. Than replace HDD with SSD and just install W10 on it. Keep other drive away until W 10 is installed. Make sure you download exactly same version of W10 as you have now, ie. Home, pro, x86, x64, same language etc.
W10 is pretty close to 8/8.1 so if everything works now, it should work even better after clean install. Most drivers are same too.
PS.
Skip entering registration during install, as soon as you connect to internet and enter your MS credentials, windows will activate.
 
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