Already have Belarc on it. Product key won't help for this as the only "free" ISO MS offers is Win8 Pro, so I can't do a clean install with that as the OEM is standard Win8. Clean install would have been my first choice, but it appears without media, the only way I can do it is to transfer the OEM version somehow, bloatware and all, then kill off the bloatware again on the new drive.
My first thought was to clone, but I was seeing talk of issues with it in Win8. I guess I could always try it. If it fails, I'll still have a working copy on HD.
I can't believe MS bungled so bad on backup and restore. That was one of their best improvements ever under Win7.