Hdd to SSD.

As a disclaimer, I realize there is a lot of information about how to upgrade with and SSD,. It cannot find anything specific to my problem. My problem is not the installation of the SSD, that's easy, I also know how create a media etc.

I just bought a 500gb SSD, hoping to use it as a boot drive to replace my 5(ish) year old slow 1tb harddrive. What I'm curious about is can I simply just create a boot drive with a USB, install a new version of Windows on to the SSD and boot form there? And than I will still have all of my files I assume, but will I have to re install drivers and whatnot or can it still use the drivers from the hdd?

Submitted October 30, 2017 at 10:10AM by nitekroller http://ift.tt/2gUFOSz