New laptop hard drive

[v8-powered]

Missus wants me to update the hard drive in her HP laptop to SSD - is there any way to create a mirror of the old HD complete with OS, license etc?
It's a fully licensed version of Win10 on there but no product key sticker on the machine, or is the key held in the BIOS?

Cheers

[KungFooBob]

It's probably in the BIOS, IIRC if she logs on to it using a Microsoft account (outlook/hotmail, etc..) then the license should be saved against her account too.

Macrium is alright at copying disks and there's a free version.

[KungFooBob]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... s%20linked.

You might have to link the activation to your M$ account first. See the above link.

[mangocrazy]

With Windows in the mix, it really isn't your 'poota any more. Any substantial changes require authorisation from MS.

[the_priest]

Get a Crucial SSD Hard drive and you can use the free Acronis software from the website to clone the hard drive. Dead simple and I've done more than a few systems like this. https://www.acronis.com/en-sg/promotion ... -download/