Moving Windows 10 Boot SSD to a New Motherboard — Good or Bad Idea?

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[LordShockwave]

Windows 10 has this one weird quirk that's at the root of the configuration changes that occurs when you change platforms. It's not just a hardware configuration issue that occurs. It's security, software installed, conflicts, and this overly complex and convoluted software collection. Do the clean install and preferably on a new ssd.

[MarkLargo]

Upgraded from an intel 3770k to a 5800x using the same SSD. 100% working and enjoying the gains. Just remember to update all your drivers.

[DXFromYT]

Exceptional timing, going from an X370 to an X570 and needed to know if I should just pull the trigger on a fresh install or try to make things work as is.

[Guckkasten]

i had that feeling of wooow, when I moved from a i7 920 with a GTX 1060 to an Ryzen 3600 with a RTX 3070. 4k videos suddenly never stutter, cyberpunk looks like a different game now and plays even 1440p (dlss) 60fps with raytracing... instead of 25 1080p without raytracing. such a wow feeling =)

[brianbecking]

I asked myself this question one week ago, very nice timing

[terryg]

I migrated 5 CAD workstations from older Intel I5 Win7 (upgraded to Win10) systems with mechanical hard drives and Nvidia cards. Cloned them all to M.2 NVME and Ryzen 3900 systems with AMD cards. They've been running for a year in a business environment and zero issues. Not one blue screen. They all benchmark comparable or higher than similar systems. We have a lot of highly customized and configured software. It's far more complicated than just installing fresh windows 10. It could take a good day or two to reinstall and configure all our software and settings. If you have older software like Word or Excel, it's not a simple to reinstall. Especially if you don't have or can't find activation codes. It was a savings of well over 40 man-hours of time.

[dahacksterkent]

I've done this without any issues... Trying will not hurt anything... if it does not work, then do a reinstall.. And I've gone from intel to AMD.

[zekicay]

Windows XP had different kernels for single-core systems, so if you installed it on a single core CPU, and then changed the CPU for a dual core, the second core wouldn't work.

[BigDave]

I went from a 9900k, msi z370, 2080ti. To AMD 5900x, msi B550 mag mortar 2080ti and I never had any issues. At all using the same OS.

[kaleckton]

As a company truck driver I have to relearn how to drive a car every time I get a rental car to do something. Like recover another company truck. Or go to a place company wants me to go. Or drive home as truck is in shop 300 miles away from my home. Like every time. Sometimes I can't even figure out how to start one. The last car I owned was a 95 camera in 2009.

[jad]

If your Windows installation is tied to your Microsoft account, then there shouldn't be any issue with Windows activation when making hardware changes.

[cipanpoke]

Better a fresh installation, but since it will be used by another person take a screenshot of the desktop and save the browser bookmark. After a fresh installation u can just create shortcut/install the softwares.

[technomancer]

An idea occurs: Move the drive, then do an in-place upgrade/repair install of Windows 10.

As long as you can boot into Windows, you should be able to run an installer for the current version (or later) of the OS. You will then be able to reinstall the OS files without losing the apps and settings.

Has anyone tried this?

[Maskalunas]

Just back up SOME of the profile to a thumb drive. Desktop, documents, downloads, photos, music.. whatever seems important. In this case, you probably don't want to copy the whole user folder and end up grabbing junk sitting in a hidden folder or appdata... Also, back up browser bookmarks to an .html file and import when you're done!

[aZryggs]

Is this the reason my windows graphic drivers load slowly like after 1 min after boot? It will start windows in a blurry resolution until the graphics driver loaded/detected. I switch from intel 6th gen to ryzen 5 3600

[whatthefanart]

I have a related question I can never find an answer to, with all my Youtube searches; After doing a complete reinstall of Windows on my SSD (on the SAME system, say recovering from a buildup of bugs and errors, or doing a new install to a new build, etc....), but all my other files are on separate drives.... other applications, personal files, games and their launchers (Steam, Origin, Uplay, GOG). Basically is there a way to "reconnect" all that content to Windows that's already sitting on the other drives so they can launch normally?

When I configure Windows to redirect the default location of User Pics, Docs, and Videos to the D drive (as was done the first time), is there a conflict when directing to a drive where they already exist? And especially my vast games library, can I avoid redownloading and reinstalling them so they can just resume with the normal client launcher?

Help me Obi Tech, you're my only hope. :)

[LexLutha]

So if I want to do a clean install, do I just load up with my existing windows on my m.2 and then do a re install?

[babyrage]

The timing is impeccable. I'm about to build myself a new rig and asked myself this question a lot of times.

[tsparc]

I was moving from a 9900K intel to a 5950X and fully intended to do a clean install but I got my M.2 drives mixed up and started with my old boot disk.... it went through a mini convulsion on startup but then fired up fine... I checked device manager and everything was good... I added the other drives and made sure drive letters were the same and I’ve had no problems with apps or windows 10 is quite good on later versions for handling this and I know opinions are split. I’ve been running a couple weeks with no strange issues or stability problems. I downloaded and installed the latest chipset drivers for the new motherboard just to reinforce it a little.

[nopenopeagain]

I migrated Windows 10 on an SSD from FM2+ (Athlon x4 860k) to AM4 (R5 3600) and the only thing that stopped working was the license, which KMSpico was enough to fix this early January.
We aren't in the XP days where a power cut at the wrong time would leave your OS bricked, Windows today is very resilient.