How To Install Windows On Same PC But Different Drive
Nov 18, 2015
I have a prebuilt computer that came with windows 8.1, it didn't come with an installation disc, or if it did i accidentally threw it away. So to find my windows product key i had to download magic jelly bean key finder. Now i right now have only a 500GB HDD, so i plan to add an SSD to run windows, and a few programs from. I don't want to copy the OS from my current drive over, i want to do a clean install of windows on the SSD. How would i do this?
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