After 4 years since this video is released you're still helping people like me. Thanks to your advice i was able to put new windows on my m.2 ssd. Thank you so much!
@@m.s.9396 Thanks, I'll give it a try later in again with a USB, I will stick with windows 11 because my original SSD was equipped with it (I am upgrading from 500gb to 1tb)
As simple as it gets, turns out i got a license attached to my account, no need to water mark or crack. No other video told me this, thank you for the help!
have a question please help me out guys. It says at the installation screen, that there will be no datas if i only install windows. Do that mean that it will delete all my datas on my hdd and other SSD????? will i be able to use my data from my other hard drives if i install windows new. (My old ssd with windows on broke so i had to buy a new one and now try to reinstall windows on a new SSD)
You are a lifesaver man. Been working on my pc for 2 days straight with nothing but error messages and this video finally solved my problem. You are a saint sir.
@@szaa5718 ye it is kinda weird. When I go to my bios settings it shows that my new SSD is being recognized and is the boot drive, but it just doesn't work. I put back my old SSD and it works perfectly fine. I might just get a different SSD.
So, the steps are: 1) Backup data you wish to keep, perhaps create a Windows PE file of your current drive in case it messes up later. 2) Associate your Windows license with your MS account and/or grab your Windows key using Produkey. 3) Use a USB Flash Drive with at least 4GB of storage on it and install the Windows Media creation tool. 4) Go into Settings - > Update and Recovery - > Wipe all existing data. 5) Go into BIOS and enable the USB Flash drive as boot device. 6) Install Windows to SSD (I had to remove the HDD SATA connector from my motherboard to do this, since it refused to install windows while two drives were present. 7) Install drivers and re enable HDD. 8) Ensure that the SSD is the primary boot device in BIOS once install is done.
@@kartiktyagi7143 Once you install Windows on the SSD, reconnect the previous drive with your OS on it. Delete all partitions from this drive, then create a new simple volume.
Pathetic Waste of Bandwidth can i just format the drive that has windows in it?? Cause my whole hdd has nearly 800 gb of steam library...and my internet is not that fast
if you don't have the product key handy 1. open powershell 2. run this - powershell "(Get-WmiObject -query ‘select * from SoftwareLicensingService’).OA3xOriginalProductKey" 3. The license key should be printed out on your screen.
I was hunting around for a video like this for quite literally two hours. Yours is the first one that actually helped me in the way that I needed it too
This is the only tutorial that didn't get me downloading some dodgy paid software, this was easier than those, cheaper and I actually learnt alot along the way.
Fantastic, Dave, thank you so much. Tried several others but there was always something missing, making life difficult to get my new boot SSD. You walked over all of them and I'm now off and running - thanks again.
Hello. I got into a install loop, that I solved by removing the usb drive after one of the reboots, when it asks to press DEL or F2 to enter BIOS. And by putting it back in after the next reboot, I was able to continue. My new SSD is a Seagate Barracuda 250GB, which also is my first SSD.
I had a lot of problem installing windows on my SSD, I saw a lot of solution but no one told me about the delete & new from the installation wizard when you have to choose a partition to install on... Did that and worked magically, thank you very much, you saved my fking life !!
To be sure during the process, I unpluged it and after I succeded installing and booting windows on my ssd I put ly hdd back But I also targeted my ssd as the bootable disk
Dude, this tutorial is amazing! I watched your video on my phone as I followed each step and it worked perfectly. You saved me so much time and aggravation. Straight and to the point on every step. Appreciate you bro.
Been looking arround on how to fresh instal windwos to new ssd for 2 days now and your video is by far the best one! Very informative without being too boring. Great job!
One tiny detail in this video led me to the solution. During partition selection, you can sometimes have lots of partitions to choose from but they can be deleted. Occasionally, after deleting them, you cannot select the remaining partition to install to. Dave mentioned that this might happen and to restart the machine and it worked itself out. Christ, how much time I wasted, lol. You're a lifesaver Dave. Thank you sir!
Brilliantly Helpful Tutorial Dave!! Just upgraded by SSD card and installed a fresh copy of Windows in this lockdown period!! Went like a dream!! Much appreciated this!
I got an SanDisk SSD 512 GB for my Dell Laptop and it is awesome! Thanks for the video, I`m thrilled on how it runs too bad no one close to me understands my joy!
This tutorial was great! Really made things clear and simple. I was originally going to clone my old driver, but the clean windows install was really the way to go!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I HAVR WATCHED ABOUT A DOZEN VIDEOS ON HOW TO DO THIS AND NONE OF THEM WORKED!! Yours is the only one that did and im incredibly appreciative!! Thank you so much!!
Ugh! I'm new to PC-building and upgrading by myself (people who used to build my PCs with me are no longer in my life, woo!) and this video was so incredibly helpful. THANK YOU!
Please help I really need this question answering If I install windows on my ssd but keep it on my hdd, make my ssd my boot drive will I need to remove it off my hardrive or not ?
Hello, my friend from Twitter has given me this answer “You don't *have* to uninstall it. Since you're pointing to your SSD to boot from, it should ignore the Windows installation on the HDD. But once you get your SSD Windows installation up and running, you should probably transfer anything you need and remove the Win install on HDD”
The only mistake I was making to keep old HDD placed as well while installing on SSD, so it wasted my 2 hours for solution. Your one sentence of keeping only SSD currently placed made my work all fine😊
I did the installation onto the new SSD, but instead of going to the network screen at 5:30 it just reboots and goes back to the start of the install? and if i try boot from my SSD it says Reboot and select proper boot device
I am having the same problem. Windows installer says that it is installing the newest updates and so on and so forth, but after the restart of the pc it just goes back to the windows 10 installer screen on the usb bootable. If I remove the usb while the pc is restarting, my mobo just says select a proper bootable disk or something like that. I really need help with this
@@bigoof5194 I fixed mine by doing something called data migration instead of this method. Search it up. After that I made my computer open via P0 port. I literally used 6 hours without breaks tryna figure this out. I had like 10 minutes where I was hitting my pillow and going in circles tryna figure out wtf I was supposed to do. If your motherboard is compatible and your ssd isn't broken there is a way! Don't give up bro
E MC'2 i have tried the migration thing a long time ago but I somehow found out that you can’t migrate data from 850 evo to 960 evo because some number thing was different in the drives? So I gave up on that too man ;_; gonna take my pc to professionals tomorrow so they can figure it out :D
So when I got my first pc (prebuilt), I didn’t know the difference in performance for hdd,ssd, or ssd nvme. Once I found out, I wanted to upgrade. Not very savvy with tech, or anything to do with computers. This video legit help me upgrade to an ssd, and removed my hdd. All while starting fresh on my pc.
4:37 I usually just click next on that "Unallocated space" after deleting all existing partitions. Is it necessary to create new partitions? Any benefits to doing that?
Finally got myself a 2tb SSD, finally no more shifting around files and uninstalling stuff I don't currently use just to be able to install what I want to use.
Question, I'm in the process at the moment but I haven't been able to get a reliable answer, will I have to delete the os data off the HDD or can I simply leave it as is and just make sure to switch over boot priority?
@@Casper-zl4nn yo can u help me? I did all the partitions but my Mobo wont read them. I'm using a 970 evo 500gb I'm basically stuck in a boot loop I've tried to removing the usb but no it doesn't let me go into windows.
Guys, just a heads up. If you're getting the install loop you need to UNPLUG YOUR USB when it finishes installing and it says "rebooting in 10 seconds to finish installing windows".
Oh my god, i nearly cried because i changed the ssd without installing windows on the new ssd or a usb flash drive and my device wouldn't work and said "no bootable device". Thank you so much for this video i did every step and it worked perfectly. I changed my old ssd with a new one (1 terabyte) because of storage issues. If anyone have a question here i'll try to help if i can.
I am replacing my old laptop's hdd with a fresh new ssd, I do not want to transfer the old files from the hdd and want an entire new drive, do I need to install anything else other than windows 10?
@@vince11083 no just windows is fine, follow the steps in the video they're more than enough, good luck. Also if you are hesitating to replace yours and afraid the new won't work or you don't know how to do it, its fine you can put back your old one and it will work back normal. My old ssd still works so if i place it back everything on it will work as before.
So if I already have windows installed on my hard drive and go through this process and install it onto my ssd will windows still exist on my hard drive taking up space or is there a way I can delete it or just wipe my hard drive after installing windows onto the ssd
Thegoldenfang 33 can’t remember the exact process but if you find the windows folder on your hard drive and change it’s name to windows.old and do some sort of cleanup task it will delete it just google it
When installing it said if the partition you’ve chosen contains files from previous windows installation, these files and folders will be moved to a folder named windows old.
This was so incredibly helpful! I haven't touched my boot drive in 7 years and back then my techy friend installed it. I followed your steps and it worked flawlessly, thanks for giving me the peace of mind as I went through the steps!
Bro,after Installing windows on newly inserted nvme ssd,now i have windows 10 on both hdd and ssd,both having lisence which is the same,i need windows 10 on ssd only,what should I do now?
I just bought a 500gb SSD myself. You might have gotten it all solved now, but I spent the whole day trying to clone my old HDD onto the new SSD with no luck (tried re-cloning with multiple different programs..). Always just resulted in an "Inaccessible boot drive" error. I would definitely recommend doing a fresh install of your OS instead of trying to transfer it from your HDD. It's what I'll be doing tomorrow morning haha. GL!
@@mustafaibadi5632 I did indeed. Yeah the whole process is fairly straightforward. I can give a quick little summary, otherwise just message me if you have any further questions :) Here was my process: 1) Before I did anything else, I downloaded a Windows 10 Disc Image (ISO file) from Microsoft's website (www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10) onto a USB-drive. This will be used to download Windows 10 on your new SSD or HDD. I believe you need at least 8 GB of storage on the USB-drive for this. Also, make sure the USB-drive is completely empty when you download the Windows 10 Disc Image file onto it. 2) Plug in your new SSD/HDD and the USB-drive and unplug your storage device that you're currently running your OS on. 3) Boot to BIOS and then find the option to boot to your USB-drive. This will begin the installation of Windows 10 on your new storage device. Where you find this option in your BIOS depends on your motherboard, so you may have to Google how to do so if you're not familiar. 4) Finish the more or less automated process of setting up Windows 10 on your new SSD/HDD and make sure that it is running as intended. 5) Power off your system and plug in your old drive (with your old operating system on it). 6) Boot to BIOS again and remove your old SSD/HDD from the boot-up device list. This will ensure that your computer doesn't try to boot from both drives and enable you to use your old drive purely as a storage drive. 7) Once back in Windows, you should be able to view both your new and old storage drives in your device list. Transfer any important files (pictures, documents, etc.) from your old drive to your new one. You can always transfer them back once you've wiped the old drive (to remove the OS). 8) After having transferred all your important files over to your new drive, you want to 'format' your old drive to wipe it clean. This is done through 'Disk Management', which is a standard program that you can search for on your PC. in Disk Management you simply find your old drive (make sure it's the right one), right click on it and select 'Format'. This will wipe it clean, removing Windows from it and enabling you to use it purely as a storage device. At this point you can transfer your previously transferred files back to your old 'new' storage device. Hope that helps :)
@@VictorAFP Wow thank you soooo much!! I have been wondering how to do this for so long. Now I can install Windows on my SSD with no worries. Thank you.
@@riteshpandya466 He is deleting the old Partitions, because he only wanted to have 1. Just connect the one drive you want to put windows on, this one drive that is connected will then get formatted (which it should be anyway if it is new) and then windows will install itself on the new drive. Your old drive cant be affected if it is not connected.
@@jvliaaaaan so I installed windows on a new SSD and when I was done I plugged in my old hard drive and activated it. But it says I have nothing on it, 1.8 terabytes of memory is missing. I never deleted anything, all I did was unplug the hard drive
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Which new SSD have you gone for?
PCGamesN Samsung 860 Evo 250 gb
Same Samsung 860evo 500gb
Samsung evo 860 500 GB. I need windows 10 installed but I dont have the program or any key. Any ideas?
@@BadWeatherfreak follow the steps in the video, he shows how to do everything, including your problems
Crucial 480 GB BX500. Thank a lot for this informativ video.
i love how calm and casual you are about all this. I am LITERALLY shitting bricks about to start from scratch with a custom build!!!
POV: You're watching this on christmas for the new SSD you got
Yes I lost my m.2 screw lmao it works tho
@@Satori-g4v never had one I’m weighing it down with the cover
woah
:) hai
@@spookyrays2816 same hopefully it doesnt get messed up by that
Everybody makes rocket science out of this process, this guy absolutely explains it simple!
After 4 years since this video is released you're still helping people like me. Thanks to your advice i was able to put new windows on my m.2 ssd. Thank you so much!
Just curious did you have to go the USB route and windows 11 right?
On windows 11 creation which download did you pick
Yes i used usb route (very easy) and i went for the windows 10. I don't see any outstanding pro's to go for the windows 11.
@@m.s.9396 Thanks, I'll give it a try later in again with a USB, I will stick with windows 11 because my original SSD was equipped with it (I am upgrading from 500gb to 1tb)
As simple as it gets, turns out i got a license attached to my account, no need to water mark or crack. No other video told me this, thank you for the help!
among us
amogus
Him : You'll need to have a license key
Me : *Laughs in Pirate Bay*
CAN YOU FIND LICENSE KEYS ON PIRATE BAY!?
@@n1tr145 he meant to have a license key to activate Windows.
@space cowboy Jergen lmaooo
isn't windows 10 free now?
@@FriedFrenchFries Where did you hear that?
This is exactly what I was looking for, easy to hear you talk, easy to follow and spare no detail. Very nice video
have a question please help me out guys. It says at the installation screen, that there will be no datas if i only install windows. Do that mean that it will delete all my datas on my hdd and other SSD????? will i be able to use my data from my other hard drives if i install windows new.
(My old ssd with windows on broke so i had to buy a new one and now try to reinstall windows on a new SSD)
@@edelweiss- did you find the answer?
Brother this is insane. Didn’t realize I would run into 170000 problems just trying to install more space.
The easiest tutorial I have seen for a clean installation of Windows on a new SSD. My computer feels like new
Even though the video is 3 years old it’s still absolute amazing. Easy to understand and solved my problem!
Finally an easy to follow tutorial with a host that doesn't talk like a robot. Thanks!
You are a lifesaver man. Been working on my pc for 2 days straight with nothing but error messages and this video finally solved my problem. You are a saint sir.
what error message do u get?
is it “reboot and select proper boot device?”
@@szaa5718 I have this error rn, did you figure out how to fix it
@@thehatecommenter6191 try pushing the cable as it may be loose, or select the priority boot in the bios to ur storage that has the windows os
if it still doesn’t work, something may be wrong with ur storage, my ssd broke because of a storm surge
@@szaa5718 ye it is kinda weird. When I go to my bios settings it shows that my new SSD is being recognized and is the boot drive, but it just doesn't work. I put back my old SSD and it works perfectly fine. I might just get a different SSD.
This was awesome! Process was so easy. I think I literally re-installed windows on my new SSD within 1 hour.
This is what I was needing. Scared shitless doing this for the first time. Thank you
So, the steps are:
1) Backup data you wish to keep, perhaps create a Windows PE file of your current drive in case it messes up later.
2) Associate your Windows license with your MS account and/or grab your Windows key using Produkey.
3) Use a USB Flash Drive with at least 4GB of storage on it and install the Windows Media creation tool.
4) Go into Settings - > Update and Recovery - > Wipe all existing data.
5) Go into BIOS and enable the USB Flash drive as boot device.
6) Install Windows to SSD (I had to remove the HDD SATA connector from my motherboard to do this, since it refused to install windows while two drives were present.
7) Install drivers and re enable HDD.
8) Ensure that the SSD is the primary boot device in BIOS once install is done.
Pathetic Waste of Bandwidth thanks this helped so much!
@@NoversGG no problem. Hope all went well. I had to return my drive because it had a whiney capacitor so I'm waiting for my new one.
How do you delete your previous OS from the HDD?
@@kartiktyagi7143 Once you install Windows on the SSD, reconnect the previous drive with your OS on it. Delete all partitions from this drive, then create a new simple volume.
Pathetic Waste of Bandwidth can i just format the drive that has windows in it?? Cause my whole hdd has nearly 800 gb of steam library...and my internet is not that fast
I was going through a few different tutorials, but you put everything together in one simple and very easy to follow guide. Thank you!
Really? This was not at all easy to follow
Yeah windows tutorials are fucking garbage, this one actually had all the information though so thumbs up
This man only blinked once.....
P.S this video helped me a lot 👍🏼
No
Blinking's for chumps. Never blink, never miss a thing...
@@PCGamesN Savage
@@PCGamesN Oh yeah, trying wearing hard lense contacts.
@@PCGamesN u blinked like 20 times
if you don't have the product key handy
1. open powershell
2. run this - powershell "(Get-WmiObject -query ‘select * from SoftwareLicensingService’).OA3xOriginalProductKey"
3. The license key should be printed out on your screen.
it doesnt work for me
@@VVZyt thank you sm man
First British narrated instructional video I've watched that didn't go at a snails pace. Thank you bro
I was hunting around for a video like this for quite literally two hours. Yours is the first one that actually helped me in the way that I needed it too
thanks! this fixed my problem. I have been trying to install windows for the past 2 days and had nothing but reoccurring errors.
This is the only tutorial that didn't get me downloading some dodgy paid software, this was easier than those, cheaper and I actually learnt alot along the way.
thanks for making this video, I know theres probably a bunch out there like this but this video was made recently so it puts me at ease.
Bought, installed and prepared the ssd within the first 30 minutes of walking out of the store thanks to this video.
I haven't reformatted in a very long time (6 years), I found this video VERY useful. Thank you for taking the time to create it.
It's nice to partition your disk after installing Win 11, partition assistant can handle this perfectly.
Take a shot for every minute he doesn't blink
It's genuinely one of the best and easy to follow tutorials I've watched.
Legendary tutorial!! Worked first time for me. Following your instructions I was able to get the whole process done it about 15-20 minutes ❤️
This is the only guy i found that clearly explains whats needed and made it very easy to understand. 10/10
Fantastic, Dave, thank you so much. Tried several others but there was always something missing, making life difficult to get my new boot SSD. You walked over all of them and I'm now off and running - thanks again.
Followed your guide to completing of installing a new SSD to my computer. Thanks for making this vid!
Very thorough, concise and to the point. Wish there would be more tutorial videos as comprehensive. Thank you for this.
Your method is the most suitable for installing windows 10 on a new ssd. I have seen around 75+ videos and yours is the perfect. Thank you so much
Hello. I got into a install loop, that I solved by removing the usb drive after one of the reboots, when it asks to press DEL or F2 to enter BIOS. And by putting it back in after the next reboot, I was able to continue.
My new SSD is a Seagate Barracuda 250GB, which also is my first SSD.
I’ve literally been fucking around with a lot of videos and programs and nothing worked. But this finally works!!! It took me 2 days..... THANKS MAN
I had a lot of problem installing windows on my SSD, I saw a lot of solution but no one told me about the delete & new from the installation wizard when you have to choose a partition to install on... Did that and worked magically, thank you very much, you saved my fking life !!
did you wipe out your old HDD or you simply removed the SATA cable only, then reconnect it back after Win 10 was installed on your new SSD?
To be sure during the process, I unpluged it and after I succeded installing and booting windows on my ssd I put ly hdd back
But I also targeted my ssd as the bootable disk
@@bouboumify I did the same but it still wont boot from my SSD. It only recognizes the HDD as the system drive.
@@Vulcano7965 did you fix it?
@ used the cloning software that came with my SSD. After that everything worked.
bro..... i love you man i really love you. ive been struggling for the past almost 2 weeks trying to do this, thank you
This is absolutely awesome. Such a simple, understandable and well thought out tut.
Brilliant.
Chances are low youll read this since this video is 4 years old, but this helped me out a ton! Thank you!
Dude, this tutorial is amazing! I watched your video on my phone as I followed each step and it worked perfectly. You saved me so much time and aggravation. Straight and to the point on every step. Appreciate you bro.
Been looking arround on how to fresh instal windwos to new ssd for 2 days now and your video is by far the best one! Very informative without being too boring. Great job!
Quick, straight to the point, easy to understand. This video was just what I needed. Thank you!
One tiny detail in this video led me to the solution. During partition selection, you can sometimes have lots of partitions to choose from but they can be deleted. Occasionally, after deleting them, you cannot select the remaining partition to install to. Dave mentioned that this might happen and to restart the machine and it worked itself out. Christ, how much time I wasted, lol. You're a lifesaver Dave. Thank you sir!
6:27 did u get shock?
DID HE JUST BLINK????
glitch in the matrix
DUDE, I rode the short bus to school and was able to do add the drive and OS... THANK YOU!!!
Brilliantly Helpful Tutorial Dave!! Just upgraded by SSD card and installed a fresh copy of Windows in this lockdown period!! Went like a dream!! Much appreciated this!
Thank you. Every other video made it seem very simple but turned out to be a nightmare. Your ideo made it seem easy and it was easy
My Win 11 cannot boot and I resoted it with ao mei backup per I'm glad I backed up my system in advance.
I got an SanDisk SSD 512 GB for my Dell Laptop and it is awesome! Thanks for the video, I`m thrilled on how it runs too bad no one close to me understands my joy!
I like how he clicked in "I'll activate later" then he created an offline account
I’ve been stuck trying to do this for 2 weeks and following these steps it’s looking like I finally got there. Thank you so much 🙏
Thank you! Went for a 1TB Samsung 860 Evo - LOVE IT!
Dylan Keppler SAME!
This tutorial was great! Really made things clear and simple. I was originally going to clone my old driver, but the clean windows install was really the way to go!
This has been a brilliant video, thank you very much for a concise and easy to follow tutorial!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I HAVR WATCHED ABOUT A DOZEN VIDEOS ON HOW TO DO THIS AND NONE OF THEM WORKED!! Yours is the only one that did and im incredibly appreciative!! Thank you so much!!
Ugh! I'm new to PC-building and upgrading by myself (people who used to build my PCs with me are no longer in my life, woo!) and this video was so incredibly helpful. THANK YOU!
Please help I really need this question answering
If I install windows on my ssd but keep it on my hdd, make my ssd my boot drive will I need to remove it off my hardrive or not ?
Hello, did you find your answer? I am wondering the same.
@@b4ikillu3 I didn’t wondering if you could help
Got the same question right now, could you find the answer?
Hello, my friend from Twitter has given me this answer “You don't *have* to uninstall it. Since you're pointing to your SSD to boot from, it should ignore the Windows installation on the HDD. But once you get your SSD Windows installation up and running, you should probably transfer anything you need and remove the Win install on HDD”
@@b4ikillu3 what about if I wanna use my hdd just for storage with everything on it
The only mistake I was making to keep old HDD placed as well while installing on SSD, so it wasted my 2 hours for solution. Your one sentence of keeping only SSD currently placed made my work all fine😊
"...to mess up however you see fit." LOLOLOL!
So amazing and simple. Finding coherent info like this can be difficult. What a great concise video.
had to slow down the video
Took my bros pc from 10 minutes start up and constant crashing to 20 seconds to desktop when he got windows to his ssd you are a God and I love you
I thought this guy was a pro until he selected the home version. Gotta find a new tutorial now, dang, nearly finished setting up too!
its literally almost the same thing but more expensive, makes no big difference
@@tadeo517 :|
My good man you are a life saver, was wonder for years on how to do this and here you come from the heavens to drop this knowledge on my lap :D
If I do this will I get to keep all of my old games and pictures on my hard drive or will it wipe it?
I think it will keep it
Jarif Nicholls Thanks I don’t have to worry now.
@@clayton8405 did you keep everything?
Wow! didn’t try it yet i’m waiting for a new SSD
@@clayton8405 getting mine in a few hours so i'll find out
Thank you, I finally upgraded to SSD
my mouse and keyboard dosent have cord so im fucked right now ...
THANK YOU omg I literally spent an entire week just trying to clone my hard drive. This was SO much easier, you’re a life saver!!
I did the installation onto the new SSD, but instead of going to the network screen at 5:30 it just reboots and goes back to the start of the install? and if i try boot from my SSD it says Reboot and select proper boot device
Have u solved the problem?
Omg how do we solve this ??
@@usagipig1852 nope still havent solved it, I just went back to using my HDD as a boot drive and SSD for game storage. I use a Samsung Evo 850
This is the best tutorial on youtube about this topic
I've followed the instructions but I'm stuck in a loop it just comes back up with the windows install again
Me too, did you find a fix??
I am having the same problem. Windows installer says that it is installing the newest updates and so on and so forth, but after the restart of the pc it just goes back to the windows 10 installer screen on the usb bootable. If I remove the usb while the pc is restarting, my mobo just says select a proper bootable disk or something like that. I really need help with this
@@bigoof5194 I fixed mine by doing something called data migration instead of this method. Search it up. After that I made my computer open via P0 port. I literally used 6 hours without breaks tryna figure this out. I had like 10 minutes where I was hitting my pillow and going in circles tryna figure out wtf I was supposed to do. If your motherboard is compatible and your ssd isn't broken there is a way! Don't give up bro
E MC'2 i have tried the migration thing a long time ago but I somehow found out that you can’t migrate data from 850 evo to 960 evo because some number thing was different in the drives? So I gave up on that too man ;_; gonna take my pc to professionals tomorrow so they can figure it out :D
@@bigoof5194 hahaha that's okay. Good luck bro🙏🏾
Not only did you 100% help me BUT FLYNN LIVES! Liked, and subscribed!
Can I do this while leaving the old HDD in the system connected but changing the boot sequence for usb and connecting the SSD
have u figured it out, cuz i wanna know what to do as well!
I watch hours of how to videos before I came across this! THANK YOU so much for your help!
Says windows can’t be installed to this disk the selected disk had a Mbr partition table. On efi systems, windows can only be installed to gpt disks.
You didn't make the usb correct. Try again
@@conservativestrawman9837 i mean you must make the image of windows once again (rufus)
So when I got my first pc (prebuilt), I didn’t know the difference in performance for hdd,ssd, or ssd nvme. Once I found out, I wanted to upgrade. Not very savvy with tech, or anything to do with computers. This video legit help me upgrade to an ssd, and removed my hdd. All while starting fresh on my pc.
4:37 I usually just click next on that "Unallocated space" after deleting all existing partitions. Is it necessary to create new partitions? Any benefits to doing that?
i think lifespan i might be wrong
@@arrop_8658 That makes no sense.
@@WigglyWings i said i might be wrong i just heard some yt talk about this
@ No need to create any partitions, Windows will automatically do it, when install it.
Finally got myself a 2tb SSD, finally no more shifting around files and uninstalling stuff I don't currently use just to be able to install what I want to use.
Question, I'm in the process at the moment but I haven't been able to get a reliable answer, will I have to delete the os data off the HDD or can I simply leave it as is and just make sure to switch over boot priority?
Worked like a charm, pc even booted straight to the usb without needing bios.
What about the os that was previously installed on the hdd
Did you figure it out ?
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Yes I want to know what happens when you plug in the old HD again
TheCivildecay I did this and when I plugged the old hdd it had the old windows files but didn’t show as an os, it used the one on the newer one
@@Casper-zl4nn yo can u help me? I did all the partitions but my Mobo wont read them. I'm using a 970 evo 500gb I'm basically stuck in a boot loop I've tried to removing the usb but no it doesn't let me go into windows.
After two stressful days on the bios page, this video helped me a lot! Thanks!!
Guys, just a heads up. If you're getting the install loop you need to UNPLUG YOUR USB when it finishes installing and it says "rebooting in 10 seconds to finish installing windows".
Thanks for this!
This has to be cap
Oh my god, i nearly cried because i changed the ssd without installing windows on the new ssd or a usb flash drive and my device wouldn't work and said "no bootable device". Thank you so much for this video i did every step and it worked perfectly. I changed my old ssd with a new one (1 terabyte) because of storage issues. If anyone have a question here i'll try to help if i can.
I am replacing my old laptop's hdd with a fresh new ssd, I do not want to transfer the old files from the hdd and want an entire new drive, do I need to install anything else other than windows 10?
@@vince11083 no just windows is fine, follow the steps in the video they're more than enough, good luck. Also if you are hesitating to replace yours and afraid the new won't work or you don't know how to do it, its fine you can put back your old one and it will work back normal. My old ssd still works so if i place it back everything on it will work as before.
thank you!@@Noura-pl4or
@@Noura-pl4or I just did it, my 6 year old laptop felt new again, thank you
@@vince11083 That's great to hear, hope the best for you.
*After installing windows 10 on ssd*
*windows fully starts before I press the power button*
So if I already have windows installed on my hard drive and go through this process and install it onto my ssd will windows still exist on my hard drive taking up space or is there a way I can delete it or just wipe my hard drive after installing windows onto the ssd
Thegoldenfang 33 can’t remember the exact process but if you find the windows folder on your hard drive and change it’s name to windows.old and do some sort of cleanup task it will delete it just google it
marshian__mallow perfect man thank you
did all your other files stay untouched
can‘t believe i just walked into the part shop and bought a 1TB ssd for 90 bucks when it cost me like $220 for 240GB a decade ago it’s amazing
When installing it said if the partition you’ve chosen contains files from previous windows installation, these files and folders will be moved to a folder named windows old.
This was so incredibly helpful! I haven't touched my boot drive in 7 years and back then my techy friend installed it. I followed your steps and it worked flawlessly, thanks for giving me the peace of mind as I went through the steps!
Hey, I just saw that you recently did this. Did you use a usb stick to transfer the data on to it?
Bro,after Installing windows on newly inserted nvme ssd,now i have windows 10 on both hdd and ssd,both having lisence which is the same,i need windows 10 on ssd only,what should I do now?
Are your data on c deleted?
@@muhammaddzakyhasyim549 no
@@mohammedfazilm9368 so its only ssd?
thanks for the tutorial! just installed windows 10 on my new SSD card and boy it's so much better than my old loud HDD
Recently got a 1tb ssd and was curious how to transfer the OS from my current hdd to the new one. Any help appreciated!
I just bought a 500gb SSD myself. You might have gotten it all solved now, but I spent the whole day trying to clone my old HDD onto the new SSD with no luck (tried re-cloning with multiple different programs..). Always just resulted in an "Inaccessible boot drive" error. I would definitely recommend doing a fresh install of your OS instead of trying to transfer it from your HDD. It's what I'll be doing tomorrow morning haha. GL!
@@VictorAFP did you delete windows on your old drive? If you did, is there any proper easy way of doing it as i have not heard of such methods.
@@mustafaibadi5632 I did indeed. Yeah the whole process is fairly straightforward. I can give a quick little summary, otherwise just message me if you have any further questions :) Here was my process: 1) Before I did anything else, I downloaded a Windows 10 Disc Image (ISO file) from Microsoft's website (www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10) onto a USB-drive. This will be used to download Windows 10 on your new SSD or HDD. I believe you need at least 8 GB of storage on the USB-drive for this. Also, make sure the USB-drive is completely empty when you download the Windows 10 Disc Image file onto it. 2) Plug in your new SSD/HDD and the USB-drive and unplug your storage device that you're currently running your OS on. 3) Boot to BIOS and then find the option to boot to your USB-drive. This will begin the installation of Windows 10 on your new storage device. Where you find this option in your BIOS depends on your motherboard, so you may have to Google how to do so if you're not familiar. 4) Finish the more or less automated process of setting up Windows 10 on your new SSD/HDD and make sure that it is running as intended. 5) Power off your system and plug in your old drive (with your old operating system on it). 6) Boot to BIOS again and remove your old SSD/HDD from the boot-up device list. This will ensure that your computer doesn't try to boot from both drives and enable you to use your old drive purely as a storage drive. 7) Once back in Windows, you should be able to view both your new and old storage drives in your device list. Transfer any important files (pictures, documents, etc.) from your old drive to your new one. You can always transfer them back once you've wiped the old drive (to remove the OS). 8) After having transferred all your important files over to your new drive, you want to 'format' your old drive to wipe it clean. This is done through 'Disk Management', which is a standard program that you can search for on your PC. in Disk Management you simply find your old drive (make sure it's the right one), right click on it and select 'Format'. This will wipe it clean, removing Windows from it and enabling you to use it purely as a storage device. At this point you can transfer your previously transferred files back to your old 'new' storage device. Hope that helps :)
@@VictorAFP this sounds very informative and right where i am at buuu i want to discard completely my old HD and reolae with ssd.is this ok to do?
@@VictorAFP Wow thank you soooo much!! I have been wondering how to do this for so long. Now I can install Windows on my SSD with no worries. Thank you.
Successfully installed windows 10 on a new SSD thanks to this guide, thank you so much!
Question: I had a problem where my hdd was partition into 3 recovery and something else forgot the name of it. I couldnt delete them for some reason
i dont understand from 4:23. why is he deleting ? will all data in my hdd lost if i do that ?
@@riteshpandya466 that's what I'm wondering
@@riteshpandya466 He is deleting the old Partitions, because he only wanted to have 1. Just connect the one drive you want to put windows on, this one drive that is connected will then get formatted (which it should be anyway if it is new) and then windows will install itself on the new drive. Your old drive cant be affected if it is not connected.
@@UnderscoreFish replied to the other guy, in case you are still wondering
@@jvliaaaaan so I installed windows on a new SSD and when I was done I plugged in my old hard drive and activated it. But it says I have nothing on it, 1.8 terabytes of memory is missing. I never deleted anything, all I did was unplug the hard drive
Old SSD broke down, got a new one, this tutorial helped perfectly
do i need to delete my existing drive, or my existing os? and if so how.
I think none
I was super worried and confused about this process. But you made it WAY easier to understand! thanks luv. 💓
mines finished installing then it went back to the beginning and it keeps doing this like a loop. PLEASE HELP
same problem here. did u find a fix?
Go for a Brand New SSD
@@kuro3348 fixed it
Just remove usb bro😂😂