How do I activate windows after installing it onto a new drive?

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Jake Foxall

Hi, I built my PC a while ago and by mistake installed Windows onto my hard drive rather than my SSD. Recently I have decided to move Windows over to my SSD so I downloaded Windows 10 onto a USB and installed it on my SSD and wiped my hard drive, but Windows will not activate on my SSD although I am logged in to my Microsoft account and it is the same PC. Checking linked devices on my Microsoft account shows another new device so I believe Windows is seeing it install on my SSD as a whole new device. Since I have reinstalled Windows onto my old hard drive and has activated immediately. So how

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