Replacement Laptop Drive

[Mereinid]

Hey folks, I have a Sager 15.3" gaming laptop I purchased a few years back for traveling while in and out of theater. Nevertheless, the HD is 500GB and I want to put as big a drive in as possible. It has only one bay. So that's the easy part, the hard part comes in that the PC had Windows 7 on it and I upgraded to Windows 10 for free and that's what is on there now.
I need to know how to ghost that entire drive to the new larger drive and then swap them. Can this be done, as far as installing a new operating system, I can do. I just don't want to lose my Windows 10 free upgrade as I already have it tied to this laptop on the 500gb drive. Is this even a thing, you think? The laptop did come with a restore disc, that's going to be fun to try and find. But I am trying not to have to reinstall all the way back to seven, update, then wait for windows 10' to recognize me and then *hopefully* get another free copy of Windows 10.

Anyway, let me know what you all think I should do. I appreciate all of your advice on this issue, so very much. It's why I came here first.

Regards,
Mereinid

 

[RoMee187]

I use Macrium Reflect Free to clone my hdd when I was upgrading to Windows 10 and it worked great.
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[USAFRet]

Macrium Reflect, Easus Todo, Acronis Trueimage, Casper...all can do this easily.

You connect the new drive via USB, run one of the above tools, migrate from old drive to new drive.
Swap the drives out, verify the boot order
Verify it works
Done.

 

[rvilkman]

You should also be able to create an installation disk for windows 10 now that you have upgraded and reinstall windows completely for that PC. Then just use that disk or USB stick as you can also create it on a USB stick to install it on your empty HDD.

There seems to be quite a few answers around the web for the clean install such as this one. Which might be the right way to go anyway, at least i personally had a lot of issues with windows 7 to windows 10 upgraded pc, until i had it reinstalled directly to windows 10.