[SOLVED] Speeding up Laptop by Migrating Windows 10 to SSD with a freeware?

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I just bought a Laptop Dell Inspiron 3505 it comes with pre-installed Windows 10 on its HDD which is 1 TB and its extremely slow to boot up and load things So I bought a Kingston 250GB SSD and installed it. Now I need some guidance in order to SHIFT windows 10 to SSD in order to speed things up with a freeware for example Macrium Reflect.

My concerns are.

  1. Will shifting OS to SSD will speed things up?
  2. Is Macrium Reflect Free is good for that operation?
  3. Should I clone all partitions recovery and such.? It has one EFI partition, 3 recovery partitions, 1 OS partition and two data partitions (See image for reference).
  4. After I clone, how to make the SSD Bootable?
  5. Should I format the OS Partition in the HDD in order to make use of it for other purposes, and how to make it a normal data partition?
  6. I don't want to lose my OS that comes with the Laptop, what other precautions should I take?

Please help, thank you so much.

Click here to see Image of my DISKs

Macrium Reflect is showing disks like that.
 
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Screw Driver is not the problem, I may cause Electrostatic discharge.
Yes it is M.2 design.
I think it is in hard drive bay, it is internal hard drive.
Yeah well you don't strictly need an anti static wrist strap to work on a pc.
As long as you touch a metal surface that's grounded every few minutes, you should be fine.
For me, the aluminium back of my fridge is connected to the earth wire, so that works.

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Screw Driver is not the problem, I may cause Electrostatic discharge.
Yes it is M.2 design.
I think it is in hard drive bay, it is internal hard drive.
Yeah well you don't strictly need an anti static wrist strap to work on a pc.
As long as you touch a metal surface that's grounded every few minutes, you should be fine.
For me, the aluminium back of my fridge is connected to the earth wire, so that works.
 
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