Issue of license of workstation trading at SSD drive

I am a newbie to VM workstation and enjoy my development on my laptop Lenovo laboratories.

Having recently added a second SSD I now want to move it's the startup disk on my laptop computer host.

If I do a complete reinstallation doesn't this invalidate the license with VMWARE?

If not, is there a better way I can instant somehow my current laptop build and then reinstall it on the new drive or is it simply impossible.

BTW my current drive is 330GB with a recovery partition, whereas the new SSD 128 GB.

Thank you

Cardy

I'm sure it is possible to move the existing install on it, but it would be just as easy to re-run the installer of the OS. Personally, I prefer to rebuild in these scenarios.

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