That raises a few more questions!
There's a difference between partitions and logical (to Windows) drives. You will have more partitions than that, but only two of them will be visible to Windows as the C: and D: drives. (There is likely to be at least two other partitions - a recovery and a boot partition, which are "invisible" at Windows level unless you go into the Disk Management console (and there's no reason why one should under normal circumstances)).
If you do a simple clone, then it would take care of all that for you anyway.
But:
i) implicitly, it looks (from your driver comment) that you may have a C: "data" disk, and a D: "system" disk, with Windows on the latter. If so, then (IMO) the D: logical disk is too small. I've had to re-allocate space between partitions for a friend's laptop where the system "disk" was too small, and eventually Windows Update stopped working because it ran out of usable space (though the data portion on a different logical drive had oodles of space). That reallocation is simple if you know what you're doing, but not available within Windows itself.
Is your Windows installation on D: ?
ii) It looks rather as if you have a 750GB disk at the moment (the remainder of the space being accounted for by the "invisible" partitions. This means that, if you have bought a 1TB SSD, you would be best expanding the partitions at clone time, rather than just doing simple cloning which would leave a big chunk of unallocated (and unusable without further intervention) space. The correct choice of free cloning software will allow for this in the cloning process and at the same time allow you to add specified space to the D: drive, if it is indeed the Windows drive. (the cloned drive will still boot up as per the old one, despite re-distribution of space).
So, an answer required, and then, if cloning is the desired first pass, a few pointers to the software and method will be forthcoming. Don't get disheartened, there's nothing there (yet) that isn't relatively simple to do, it just requires the right focus.
BTW, the Win10 DVD issue you might/would see after a clean install is not a driver issue. The drive will still function, and data reading will not be an issue. Prior to Win10, Microsoft distributed a CoDeC with Windows that supported the playing of DVD "movies". They didn't licence that for Win10, and it is not now distributed. (though, in recognition of the history, if you upgraded from a previous version of Windows, they carried it over to the upgraded Win10. I suspect you may be in that position at the moment, and a clean install will remove it. There are workarounds, (Installing VLC player is probably the easiest) but it won't work "out of the box").
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