I've never done any hardware work at all, but I want to upgrade my PC's SSD hard drive and reckon it's probably simple enough that I can do it myself. So I'd appreciate a quick sanity check on the process.
I have a Lenovo M83 mini tower with a 125 Gb SSD being used as C drive just for apps and OS and a second 2Tb HD for all my files. So I want to replace the SSD with a new 500 Gb one and take the opportunity to upgrade to Win 10 and also get rid of a lot of Lenovo installed apps.
I was planning to:
- buy a Samsung 860 EVO 500 Gb
- swap that with existing as per hardware instruction manual
- buy OEM Win 10 copy and do clean install on new drive
- reinstall apps that I need.
The only real question I have is, how I boot the PC after swapping the drives. I guess if I purchase Win 10 on disc or USB drive it'll boot off that. But of it's a download copy, how do I first create a boot disc? Do I do it as part of the Win 10 purchase, or from my existing Win 7 before I remove the SSD?
Anything else I've got wrong or not thought about?