How to install Win 8 from an HD to an SSD Same PC

[dricenx]

I was wondering if there's any special steps required for optimal installation of Win 8 after you already installed AND activated it.

I wanted to give Win8 a try, but since i do a lot of my work (Maya,After Effects,Photoshop,Lightroom) and gaming on my PC i was skeptical and wanted to install it in something other than my Main drive first so i could test for compatibility issues, so i installed it on another HDD i have on my PC, so i tested everything and everything works fine, now i want to replace my existing Win7 partition on my SSD, but it rose the question, how would this work? since i already have Win8 installed and activated on my HDD, how do i uninstall it so it allows me to reactivate it on my SSD, and for uninstallation do i just format that and install on the SSD and that's it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[sze5003]

You need the created media from the upgrade assistant. Burn that Iso or make a boot usb drive. You can clone your HDD to your SSD but for a clean install on the SSD you need to do a registry "hack" to activate it or call MS and tell them you got a new hard drive. They will perform the same "hack" but they may ask you for your previous windows 7 key.