Okay thanks, I'll be sure to follow your steps.

So if I upgraded on my existing hard drive, how would I do a clean install on the SSD?

Thanks for the help. So you'd recommend doing a clean install of Windows 10 rather than transferring all the data back onto Windows 8.1 and then doing an upgrade with files and settings?

Thanks,
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I'm currently running Windows 8.1 on my laptop however I want to upgrade to Windows 10 on a new 250gb SSD that I've just bought. What would be the best way to do this?

Would I need to backup all...