Just built a computer. Used an old 1TB harddrive (which the contents I want to keep) with windows 10. I also installed a new SSD. I want to copy Windows 10 (Or I have a copy of windows 7 i can use and upgrade to 10 on a flash drive). I want to load windows from the SSD. What is the easiet way to do this?

Microwave the hard drive

This

hit it with a hammer

sticky keyboard

The easiest way is to get someone else to do it

1 get easeus partition master, is free
2 use it to copy OS to ssd
3 get windows setup to load from usb-stick
4 temporarily remove 1tb hdd
5 repair new windows partition to boot

you could manually create an ntfs partition and copy the windows files there, then fix it with the install-windows-stick

This post was edited by the_rest on Jun 12 2016 04:30am

The best way is to get a prying bar.

have you tried turning it off and on again?