You might be interested in my recent adventures.
Have a 120GB Intel SSD w/ Win 7 Pro as my system disk.
Bought a 512GB Intel SSD from Newegg. Physically installed drive in system. Initialized and formatted drive.
Used Todo cloning software (free) to copy 120GB disk to 512GB disk.
Reset BIOS so that 512GB drive was first in boot order.
Booted system. Haven't looked back. Have tons and tons of free space on 512GB system drive.
I’ll look into that, and I appreciate it. Lenovo laptop, nice piece overall, but lenovo is bios unfriendly in general. Don’t want you removing their secret chinese spyware or something. Will check it out.
It’s a thinkpad 530, upgraded by computer king through amazon prior to delivery. Better drives, more memory, same warantee. $2k 5yrs ago, for business. Have docking station and 3 monitors via displayport. Overall good investment, but 5yo ssd is full and I don’t trust it much longer, though the diags say it’s ok...
I am going to refer to your post in the future. When you do this you don’t get asked to enter a windows ten key? This never happened? Your new SSD clone is so perfect that it emulated the Windows 10 ID of the drive it was cloned from?...I suppose.
BTW for legit windows 10 keys go to the UK ebay. They go for about $4. Then download win 10 from Microsoft site onto a bootable flash drive/ Microsoft site does the for you. IOW you do not have create the bootable flash dr. MS does it for you.
So with Win 10 on a bootable flash drive + your UK ebay Win 10 key you can fresh install the latest version of Win 10 onto freshly bought SSD.