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How to upgrade my HP notebook HDD to SSD
I am a non-technical person living in Italy. I have an old HP notebook of 2013 (mod. Envy 15-j040el) with 12 GB RAM and 1 TB HDD. Since my laptop has become painfully slow, I was wondering whether an upgrade of my legacy HDD to a compatible SSD would solve the slowness problem.
However, I must clarify that the HP laptop originally came with Windows 8 Home 64 bits, which was later upgraded to Windows 10 (Version 22H2 [OS build 19045.4239]). Would a simple cloning of my HDD on an SSD (Crucial BX500 1tb 3d nand sata 2.5) solve my problem, or do I need to install Windows 10 separately?
Could someone advise about how to go about cloning; and if Windows 10 needs to be installed separately, how to do it?