Fresh install?

[SupremeMeechus]

If you watch the video in the link you attached to your reply, you would understand what I am trying to say. The video isn't making any sense to me. at 3:30 in the video the USB media is done downloading. Now listen, after that do I shut off my pc and UNPLUG the HDD and leave the new SSD in there than boot from the USB stick and do everything in there?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Yes.

After the tool creates the bootable flash drive, you shut down the PC, unplug the hard drive, install the new SSD.

There is no need to install the SSD before creating the recovery media.

Then boot from the cloud recovery media and hopefully it will work on the SSD with the hard drive unplugged.

[SupremeMeechus]

OHhhh ok I understand now

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Please let us know how it works out.

[SupremeMeechus]

Is it guaranteed its gonna work because I don't want to break my pc somehow

[Paul_Tikkanen]

I can't guarantee anything, but it should work.

As I wrote yesterday, if the cloud recovery tool doesn't work on the SSD, then clean install W10, because that should work fine.

[SupremeMeechus]

Should I just be safe and do a clean install of windows 10 with the media creation tool? Will I still have all the software and driver my pc came with or do I have to download them all?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You will only have access to the software that HP has on the support page.

HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop PC TG01-0000i Software and Driver Downloads | HP® Customer Support

I would try the cloud recovery tool first.

Worst case scenario is it won't work, and you go ahead with the clean install using the Media creation tool.

[SupremeMeechus]

Is cloning an option?

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[Paul_Tikkanen]

Yes, but I don't know how to do that.