How to upgrade ssd and 2.5 hardrive?

I to upgrade the hardrives (ssd and 2.5 hard drive) on my laptop is there a way I can do this without losing my windows key I have the model asus gm501.

 

I would also like to know if possible to transfer everything including installed programs to my new laptop if possible?

 

I have installed programs with some saved data that i would like to keep

 

Are you upgrading storage on the laptop, or changing the drives to another different one?

If its the same, you can clone the drive, but I preffer to do clean install's, if you dont want to, Crucial SSD's have a key for a cloning program and I think Samsung does the same.

The Windows key is in embedded in the ACPI tables in the BIOS, it should activate/keep activated if you are swapping storage.

What is your current storage, and what do you want to go for?

 

right now I have a 256 ssd I want to upgrade that too 512gb hard and I for the 2.5 drive I have a 1ttb hard drive I want to upgrade that to a 2tb hard drive. So I am physically upgrading to new hardware for storage.

 

Open command line as admin:

wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

Copy that into the command line. Make note of the code given. Wipe the drive you are getting rid of.

Been awhile since I’ve done this... so someone feel free to correct anything.

Edit:
Knew I was forgetting something. Make sure the ISO is bootable. There is software out there to format the usb or whatever you’re booting off of.

 

Okay I will do my own research on this as well. So when I copy this I can paste in command line when I put the new Hard drive in? Doesn't something need to be done in bios?

 

If you successfully boot into Windows, it should ask you to enter a key at some point before letting you in. I would recommend doing research as well, but it's pretty straight forward.

I also forgot something else. You need to de-activate the product key on your current drive first!
https://www.howtogeek.com/124286/how-to-uninstall-your-windows-product-key-before-you-sell-your-pc/

 

With windows 10 option can I just create a recovery drive instead of doing all of this?

 

This seems like a bigger process then I thought it would be. I'll check that out too.

 

Probably, I’ve never done that though. Haha sorry if it’s not much help

Good luck!

 

Macrium works just fine for this you just have to transfer the OS to a different drive and transfer it back after you are done physically upgrading the storage thanks for everyones help.