You will have to use third party tools or Diskpart from the command prompt to remove all the extra partitions from the old drive(even better to use another computer for this if you can). Once you have cloned everything over, you will want to remove the hard drive to make 100% sure it is working before you erase the current drive. Last HP I had like this had a 1gigabyte(Windows Recovery Environment) 360 megabyte(UEFI boot) and 100(blank, it may have been used for alignment, but I just left it) megabyte partition before the Windows partition and the Recovery was the last partition. You can also make the image AFTER, but you better be sure everything is working before erasing the old hard drive. The image may be rather large, so storing it would be best left to another hard drive.). You should be able to clone ALL but the recovery partition(if you make an image of your system at this time, you can actually load it to the drive in the future if you have issues.
now you will need almost of the partitions for this to work. My recommendation since you already have the hdd caddy would be to use a program like Macrium Reflect Free(free for personal use) to clone the HDD to the SSD. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help.Sometimes using the recovery media on other drives is a paint because of secure boot(a feature in the bios). Pleaseįollow the steps in the link below about reinstalling Windows 10 (free upgrade) after replacing Hard Drive provided by Andre Da Costa. The Windows 7 or Windows 8 genuine license you were previously running will be exchanged for aĪnytime you need to reinstall Windows 10 on that machine, just proceed to reinstall Windows 10. What happened is the hardware (your PC) will get a digital entitlement, where a unique signature of the computer will be stored on Microsoft Activation Servers. When you upgraded from a previous version of Windows or receive a new computer preinstalled with Windows 10,
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