Question regarding replacement of laptop harddrive

[Ogandydancer]

I have an older model HP laptop model 1260 us that I would like to replace the hard drive on with a 1TB SSD my question is this, how do you get a fresh install of windows10 on it so as to not get all the bloat ware that usually comes with Home premium of any version of windows.

 

[Jon651]

Windows has a program to move your operating system to a new drive in the same PC. Here is the site:
Create installation media for Windows and click on "Download Tool Now".

With Windows 10, the registration license is stored in the hardware and not on your drive, so as long as you are just replacing the drive you shouldn't need to re-enter your product key.

Here is a Microsoft tutorial on how to do this. Sorry that it is so wordy.
Clean install of windows 10 OS on new SSD-best procedure for - Microsoft Community

If you do a general Google Search on "reinstall windows 10 on ssd" there is plenty of helpful info available.

After you reinstall Windows 10 your machine is usable but missing your personal files. I recommend getting a small external hard drive case for your old drive that connects via USB cable, put your old drive inside that and connect it via cable to your laptop. You now can move over your old files, photos, etc. at your leisure - and you now also have an external hard drive you can use to make back-ups, move large files, archive old stuff, etc.

Hope this helps!

 

[Jeff423]

Slightly off topic, but one process I've used is to "clone" the existing hard drive. It makes an exact copy of the old drive on the new drive and the cloning program can adjust for different size drives. Unlike some of the methods described above it does require that both drives be connected to the computer simultaneously. It's not the simplest process but has worked many times for me and "If I can do it, you can do it". I actually clone my drives instead of backing them up, because I can just install the new drive instead of trying to "restore" a hard drive. I started this when a friend had her computer hacked and held for ransom and lost everything on it.

 

[bigwheelzip]

I have an older model HP laptop model 1260 us that I would like to replace the hard drive on with a 1TB SSD my question is this, how do you get a fresh install of windows10 on it so as to not get all the bloat ware that usually comes with Home premium of any version of windows.

If your saying that you have an HP laptop with Windows 7, that you want to both change the storage drive and clean install Windows 10 without the HP bloatware that's bothered you on the factory installed operating system, I think your going to need to buy a new Windows 10. If you can live with the HP setup, Microsoft may still be offering free 7 to 10 downloadable updates.
If you want to buy a clean new Windows 10, Newegg is a good place for it.
Good luck.

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