Moving my Windows 10 to my friend's computer-formatting-changing

Hi.
Once again such a post. I got my friend's computer. He has an SSD drive which I don't have in mine so basically I am buying his computer to upgrade. Getting an SSD for Windows and everything in general.

So what I apparently need is to make a proper Windows 10 account and then open it on my friend's computer to format everything fully. I want my Windows to run on his SSD drive and then move my old hard drive to his computer as a storage disk.

What is the best way to go about all this?

Do I need to say, use my old Hotmail account or make a new account or can I use my Gmail account to prepare a Windows account? How do I get rid of his account on his computer and run my account? I have never really MADE a specific Windows account, I only have my old Hotmail somewhere but I use my Google account for everything.

So then I need to fully format his SSD drive (which I think I've kinda done but not properly I heard). I'm hoping I can just run my Windows account and then move stuff off my old drive manually later when I have both drives on my new computer.


You can see how confusing my post is? It's because I can't grasp this which I thought would be easy. Someone told me this is a process that takes a week. I thought I might just be able to keep my friend's "account" and change minor things and just move my stuff over. I don't think I have a lot of Windows customizations. Some Fonts, Wallpapers and I'm not sure what else is really part of Windows to be honest.




Anyways, hope someone can just point me to the right direction.
I plan to get into this fully now in July and finish this. I will probably need some step by step instructions.
Someone told me to use Windows 10 Media Creation Tool (right) so maybe someone here can help me from this stepping stone.




Thank you so much and best regards everyone.


(Also tell me if it is hard to upgrade Windows to say, 11. If it is free or something)

Isnt it easier to transfer the system from your current pc to the new one?

It can be done using os migration, or by creating an image of your current setup and restoring the image to the ssd on the new one..

SIW2 said:

Isnt it easier to transfer the system from your current pc to the new one?

It can be done using os migration, or by creating an image of your current setup and restoring the image to the ssd on the new one..

Yeah I was trying that before with Macron Reflect. Thing is my hard drive is much bigger than the SSD so it can't be done at least easily. And I think I should also do a very thorough clean sweep format of the SSD drive which I'm also not sure how to do properly.

Ghot said:

Another option is just buy an SSD for your computer.

Unless there is some other reason for buying your friends computer... buying an SSD for yours would be cheaper.

Well I'm also getting new other stuff. I'm not sure how much of an upgrade but I will be using his graphics card, power adapter and everything. Still need to check about what to harvest from mine actually. But I'm pretty sure his motherboard and everything is also an upgrade to mine. I'm taking the case and everything

Ghot said:

If you want to wipe and do a clean install on the SSD you can do that as well.
Just use a "bootable" program like Minitool Partition Wizard, to write zeroes to the SSD.

Here is the ISO for the bootable Partition Wizard program...

Dropbox - pwfree9.zip - Simplify your life

You can't format or wipe a Windows drive while you are IN Windows. You need to do it from outside Windows.

Would that be able to clean his SSD and install my Windows 10 somehow? Or can I just clean it and get a fresh Windows 10 without any customizations and then move my old disk in and move some files and things on the new SSD? I will then have to clean my Windows off my old disk also