Our guide will walk you through the complete step-by-step process of buying, installing, and formatting a new budget-focused SSD for your Windows desktop.

How do I install Windows on a SSD instead of HDD? To set up Windows on an SSD instead of HDD, connect the SSD and a bootable USB drive with the Windows installation files.

How to install a SSD inside a desktop PC?: SSDs or Solid State Drives have a great deal of positive impact on the performance of a computer.

Still, there are a few things you should know to make installation as smooth as possible. Installing a hard drive in your PC doesn’t necessarily follow the same procedure as installing an SSD.

If you have an old PC with only a mechanical hard drive inside and it's getting too slow, an SSD is a cheap and easy way to get a big speed increase.

Here's how you can install an NVME SSD with ease, and take advantage of those faster loading speeds.

In addition, make sure the drive you are cloning to has enough storage space to take all the cloned data. For instance, you wouldn't want to try and clone a 2TB HDD on to a 256GB SSD now would you?

Here are Microsoft's own guides on building a Windows To Go drive, native booting from VHDs on a USB drive, as well as editing Windows boot files with BCDBoot and operating DISM via Command Prompt.

To make your computer run stable and fast, we recommend installing Windows 11 on an SSD drive. Here we give you a step by step guide on how to install Windows 11 on SATA/M.2/NVMe SSD.

If you install Windows to an external drive, USB 3.1 can make it almost as fast as an internal drive.