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Upgrade SSD on Surface 4?
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I think that you may be better with the 'Surface Recovery Image' rather than the standard one made by the media creation tool, but admit that I don't know for sure what the difference is and the standard one may be OK.Since Windows 8 the Windows licence is a 'Digital Entitlement' stored at M$ and basically tied to the motherboard, so just replacing a drive has never been a problem for me. When I've reinstalled Windows, even from scratch to a new blank drive, it just picks up the existing licence without you having to enter a keyYou are always nervous the first time doing something like replacing a drive, and it's good to be cautious. Once you've done a few then it's nothing special.1
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Newcad said:I think that you may be better with the 'Surface Recovery Image' rather than the standard one made by the media creation tool, but admit that I don't know for sure what the difference is and the standard one may be OK.Since Windows 8 the Windows licence is a 'Digital Entitlement' stored at M$ and basically tied to the motherboard, so just replacing a drive has never been a problem for me. When I've reinstalled Windows, even from scratch to a new blank drive, it just picks up the existing licence without you having to enter a keyYou are always nervous the first time doing something like replacing a drive, and it's good to be cautious. Once you've done a few then it's nothing special.0
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