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What is the best approach to install windows 10 to new SSD
First, let me say that last night, out of the blue,my PC crashed. Long story short, my Kingston 240gb SSD abruptly died. I'm not sure how long I had it, but it was no more than three years old. The system itself was built in 2011, but I changed the original Intel 120GB SSD to the Kingston. It gave me no prior indications before last night that it was going to die. Basically it went quickly. I thought that I could grab some files from it but it apparently doesn't seem that I will be able to. I ended up going to Best Buy and picked up a PNY 480 GB SSD and a copy of Windows 10 pro. I didn't even have a copy of any OS other than XP.
Here is my plan. I will install the new SSD and load the win 10 OS onto it. Then I want to recover a backup that I performed over a year ago. This backup was on one of my NAS drives. Apparently I procrastinated too long and failed to make scheduled backups of my C:\ drive. I think this will work because the OS I had on my "dead" drive was also Win 10 pro. The backup may be old, but it may prevent me from downloading and reinstalling a lot of apps/programs that I had before. Does this approach seem to be possible? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.