How to Move a Hard Drive With Windows 10 Installed to A New PC (With new Hardware) 2017

[@nikluz3807]

basically: 1. uninstall any drivers for your original hardware 2. run sysprep (with shutdown option) 3. plug your hard drive into new computer and boot! 4. go through setup

[@SoundDesignTutorials]

You got it 👍

[@Ramicsgo]

my new pc still want to boot up with the HDD inside

[@metalback72]

@@SoundDesignTutorials Can i skip to step 3 then go into blue screen of death and from there choose to install it from scratch?

[@beemo4]

Tim 72 i think

[@littobud]

If I have windows installed on my ssd do I put that in instead and boot up?

[@riznspiritwilliams1198]

I very rarely comment online, but after viewing and following every step of your procedure. I'm overwhelmingly satisfied with the result of moving and installing my hard drive -> Windows 10 fully operational my new build. Although as suggested, I backed-up my data. It was not needed when windows smoothly booted and Wha-La everything was intact. Thank you for sharing!

[@stefanilievskigaming6478]

This will not delete my windows right? PLS REPLY

[@cell_dempsey8908]

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[@uhmazin1493]

@@stefanilievskigaming6478 idk

[@uhmazin1493]

did it?

[@sirpw9205]

Do you set up the new pc the way you would normally

[@SoundDesignTutorials]

I have swapped a hard drive without doing anything before and it still worked, but it’s risky if you want to keep all the programs, some may be lost.

[@Daniel-ge6mf]

Sound Design Tutorials I everything that needed to be done but the thing is my new computer is already set up so how do I have my hard drive working

[@dioselina2760]

if I am buying a new motherboard because my old one went out and I can no longer access the desktop or the display at all. when I get a new motherboard will I need to get a new hard drive or am I able to to use my old one?

[@mattfrankman]

If it's the same motherboard, it should work okay. It it's different, it might work but be a little screwed up (in terms of which programs will work). There's to harm in trying.

[@mouthtomouth33]

I tried to set up without uninstalling anything and there's an annoying sign that a says; "insert boot devise and press any key". I don't know what to do.

[@salvsays]

mouthtomouth33 did you figure out what to do? My motherboard shit itself. So i wasnt able to back up or delete anything. So i just bought a new one that is completely different than my old one and now im scared to plug in my old hdd

[@tonyliggett3724]

This worked PERFECTLY for me! I upgraded my system from an i5-7600K, Gigabyte GA-Z270 Gaming K3 MB, GTX 1080 graphics card, and DDR4 memory. New system is Ryzen 7 7800X3D, GIGABYTE B650 AORUS ELITE AX AM5, AMD 7900XT, and DDR5 memory. Did the prework in your tutorial, moved my boot drive t my new system and booted right up. Glad you warned about it having you set up another system ID or I would have panicked. Restarted and logged into my old system ID and everything was just as I left it. I had AOMEI Backupper backup with universal restore as plan B, but didn't have to use it. THANKS!!

[@TheTrueKingJoffrey]

Just did this on my new build and works like a charm! (As you also said, do not worry when windows asks you to create another account and opens with that profile. You can just login into your original one and delete the new one) thank you very much man! stay safe

[@sh3ikXI]

Great guide! It went super smoothly. The hardest part was adding all the application to the task bar.

[@davidnollmusic363]

This is exactly what I'm wanting to do. My brother has given me a computer that is an upgrade as far as performance from the one I'm using now for recording. Thank you so much for making this very helpful video. Wishing you all the best!

[@ghiawar2471]

You sir,, are a legend. This has saved so much hassle! Thank you

[@mattfrankman]

Great tutorial. All of the others involved mirrors, this is exactly what I needed. Thanks!

[@evangamblelewis4256]

Man... Thank you so much!!!!! I've easily spent over $10k on music software since my last studio workstation build 10 years ago. I was absolutely terrified of losing anything. This video is absolutely career (and marriage) saving!

[@mikeexits]

ElectronGalaxyLP?

[@spinster4000]

I tried so hard to try and find a video like this mainly because it was hard to word such a thing to how i want but i finally found a video that explains everything, thank you SO much. I'm planning on building a beast of a gaming PC using the new 3070 when it drops and want all my data from my old PC that I'm using right now to watch this video to be transferred over to my new rig, that's including all my games, files, folders etc. (I am not re installing 10 games that take up at least 100 GB each. And this video explains just what i need, so again thanks man. It's going to help me out a lot!

[@DeerJerky]

Did you ever get that RTX 3070?

[@lomaiga3471]

Yes same

[@thewillsfamilyaccount6486]

I like your method in preparing the hard drives for the newer machine! Nicely done! 😊

[@kotitablettikotitabletti9047]

Just came here for the exact reason, tons of plugins on fl studio

[@1988kuriakos]

i lost all my flps,im so fucked 15 years work

[@huh7739]

@@1988kuriakos nice

[@nounylogic169]

Hi. Thanks for this Video. Watched it a few times and then took the leap and used sysprep to move my SSD 1TB into a newer laptop with a larger SSD. Windows did ask me to create a new user account but didn't ask me for my Key. After a re-boot I could log in with my original user account and my desktop looked identicle. Task Bar Icons were missing but that's no biggie! I did install DriverMax which identified 20 required/updated drivers for the hardware in my newer Laptop. Well worth the 30 day sub of £8 just to get the job done. I'm going to look for a tool to uninstall the remaining redundant drivers I missed pre-sysprep. Thanks for sharing your experiences and making mine a lot easier. Respect.

[@galvario2321]

Been looking for a tutorial like this for a while, well explained and easy to follow, helped me a lot. Thanks :)

[@darthkittyoustheunwise7581]

Thank you very! I'm making a new build and was hoping I didn't have to. Thank you for saving me so much time!

[@WildWill]

Should I keep my graphics card drivers. I’m going to be using the same graphics card.

[@vishalkaranam]

WildWill yes

[@mikev2903]

@@zzzomitted reinstalling video drivers is a pretty painless process nowadays, just uninstall and reinstall using ddu or some other tool

[@mikev2903]

@@zzzomitted Display Driver Uninstaller, a great tool if you find your computer crashing because of a bad driver uninstall. Most of the time you dont have to use it but if you keep getting BSODs because of a graphics card issue it will seek out any trace of the old graphics card driver and destroy it. Has saved my computer more than once from nvidias bad installers

[@PaulBrassington_flutter_expert]

Followed the advice with great success, also changed the activation to my Microsoft account and it worked perfectly. I did need the activation code so make sure you have it. Thanks so much for your video.

[@masonfuckcancer9523]

im changing motherboard cpu ram and power suply and dont want to by a new key will this work for me

[@littobud]

mason fuckcancer did you buy oem windows 10?

[@danteflame87]

Tutorial is incorrect, sysprep and OutOfBoxExperience are purely for telling your computer you want to run the windows first time start up wizard again, the way windows would behave if it was fresh "out of the box", it has nothing to do with prepping the hard drive to be removed from your current PC. All you have to do is delete any drivers that might cause conflicts like he did in this tut and make sure your windows activation is tied to your Microsoft account (as opposed to the hardware) so the activation will transfer with the hard drive and you don't have to do the dance of deactivating on one machine then activating on the other or worse yet having to enter your activation key. Windows 10 does a lot of the rest of the work for you automatically.

[@Foxtrot1967]

My MOBO failed but my Win 7 Pro SSD is fine. I tried booting it from a new PC but it fails. Any suggestions?

[@isaacbc74]

How do I do this if my old computer is dead? I was able to take out the old HDD but I don't know how to clear out the drivers for my original hardware without my original computer working. Thank you!

[@Draskinn]

Yep same boat

[@brawlstars_ma327]

you need to put it in a working pc an do this steps

[@SGThirkell]

Thanks for this video, it's just the info I needed for when I build a new PC later this year. Much appreciated.

[@jeremydejong7090]

this is the best tut on this i have found so far

[@4h0w1e6]

I just realized I never commented here on this method... it worked so well for me. I am just rewatching as a reminder of how to do it again. Like a brain transplant for your computer, just move your OS drive to the new box and go.

[@billoddy5637]

As far as I can tell this is the only Tutorial for this on KZbin. All the others tell you how to clone your drive, not how to move it around!

[@tazokhdc3504]

life saver. worked perfectly. Had several crashes due to incompatible drivers . So i had to manually uninstall and reinstall some drivers. Thought I got rid of most of it but some were intel based . I had to uninstall and reinstall my graphics card drivers although it was the same card. that was a huge pain. Thanks a lot. Cant believe im using my pc the way it was on my old one.

[@Rocksock531]

Thank you for a great explanation, need to try this method on a new computer I'm getting as my CPU in my old one has just died. Hoping for the best.

[@mysteretsym]

Thanks, operating systems are ridiculously expensive. They should be like 20 bucks a piece.

[@bosstroller99]

Check Opium Pulse. Cheap OS there

[@xkickzyt]

@@SVB089 You're*

[@SVB089]

@@xkickzyt thx

[@xkickzyt]

@@SVB089 XDDDDDDD

[@dontdropthesoapdontdropthe1045]

you buy win 10 tf it doesnt even need to be purchased for it to be functional

[@ghosty4959]

When you do this, can you swap all your drives? for example I have 2 HDD and 1 SSD, can I put them all in the new pc after doing this? Thanks

[@WheeledHamster]

Yea, just take note of the Drive letters and when you put it in the new PC reasign the same letters so that all the Apps can find that path.

[@nosleepjones4551]

So you can use this if you have a lot of files that you don't want to download all of them again for example I personally have a lot of games and software if I were to download it all again it would take weeks right?

[@speerzy11]

Thanks man, I have my first new build coming next week, I will be trying this 100%. I basically want exactly what you've shown to happen for me, then I want to then clone the drive with the new setup to my new hard drive I purchased...My question is should I clone to the new hard drive first or should I do it after and also before I doing the process what do you suggest for backing up the original hard drive? Thanks for your time.

[@GigaChad-wd8ef]

so if ill use the same GPU and the drivers are already installed on my hdd all i have to do is move the hdd to the new computer? Bcs i dont have any other special drivers for rgb or fans.

[@riverwarts9084]

I know this is old, but did you have to go and download all the new drivers for your new motherboard once it booted to desktop or did the PC take care of that on the initial boot? Thanks in advance.

[@tattooedredheadx]

Did he say "This is fucks." at the beginning? lol

[@dark321100]

windows 10 is build to be plug and play in case u upgrade ur stuff just remove the drivers and anything hardware related stuff and then plug it to new pc and your good to go windows will automatically detect any new hardware u plug and update it for you some drivers need to download though (like mobo,gpu, etc) but if want to lose your windows 10 key just do this step . try it yourself and thank me later .

[@solidwire]

Sysprep doesn't bring over your user info because it was created for cloning larger deployments back when the internet was much slower and/or creating preconfigured resale units. At least that is what we had used it for... I'm surprised activation carries over without an enterprise license. Very cool.

[@Liberntz_]

welcome back its fucks

[@okayypablo]

lmaooo thats what i thought to

[@vishalkaranam]

what if I want to plug in the hard drives from the new computer to the old one? i believe i should follow these same steps correct?

[@jeanobalinghasay4244]

Probably the same. See it as moving the hard drive to "another computer" new or old

[@ryanbauer1482]

Do a video of how to “delete the new user name that it makes you create when installing the Hdd in the new computer”.

[@tuantranproduction]

hi. do you have to re-activate any plugins or programs with that method? I've heard that some programs registered with pc hardwares which is called hard hardware-id

[@tintzaw9915]

Do I need to uninstall UHD onboard graphic and intel related software before move? My cpu on new pc will be i9-10900K and current is i7-8700K

[@sethmckinley13]

Lesson learned: UPDATE YOUR BIOS Prepped everything and when i went to launch...nothing worked. Microsoft couldnt help, so i ended up getting a activation code and downloading it onto a zip. Then when that did not work, I knew something was up. I needed to updtate my BIOS. As soon as I did. My activation key worked. I tried my ssd in my old pc again and it instantly went to start windows 10. I have no doubt it i would have updated my BIOS first, this would have worked for me.

[@SoundDesignTutorials]

Good advice.. You should always update your bios regularly, be it on a new build or existing one 👌

[@nonyabiz3874]

im about to move my Nvme from a b450 to a b550 and wondering is this an ssd ur talking about????? and if anything would u have a vid about switcing ssd,s

[@SISTO_official]

Is it okay if you dont uninstall those programs you uninstalled around 3:00-4:00 because i still want to to use the computer, im just moving the programs and data over. If i uninstalled them the computer wouldn’t work anymore

[@maartenherrmann]

So, will I be able to follow these steps, upgrade my motherboard and cpu and run a setup without losing my data? (It’s backed up mostly anyways)

[@SoundDesignTutorials]

Yep, just back up anything you don't want to loose, pics, docs, vids etc

[@iiieliteiii7840]

I built a new pc and bought a friends hard drive off him. If I put his hard drive (which has not been wiped) in my system would it boot up like his computer? Would I need to install Windows 10? I want to wipe it and start clean with downloading windows from a usb drive. I don’t have any other computer in my house so I don’t have any other desktop but I do have a laptop to install windows.

[@matthewtaylormedia]

So i followed your steps to prep for a new build, but my new computer's bios can't boot from the ssd. It just sits in there and new ssd is 1st priory in boot prefer. Not sure what to do? Am I missing a simple step to start in bios? Send help, thanks!

[@demitrovichr3171]

So if the old windows 10 license transfers over to the new pc build does it get removed from the old one? Dont want any weird duplicate license.

[@jbdelacruz411]

What if all drivers from old pc have not been deleted? What can it cause?

[@saptarshimohanty459]

Ok,so i exactly did as mentioned in the video. Now when I installed the HDD into my new PC it won't boot up properly. It would ask me to select language, timezone and other stuff. Then it blacks out and the process starts again. Any help?

[@stephengraber4015]

I wonder if this will work if you're unable to cleanup the drivers etc and run sysprep on the old machine. My Intel NUC died and I'm wanting to move my M.2 Internal SSD with Win10 to an ASRock NUC Box with very similar but not identical hardware. I'll give it a try and post my experience but if anyone has done something similar I'd greatly appreciate benefitting from your experience! Thanks in advance for any comments you may care to share.

[@anixzen7170]

I’ve moved my ssd to my new computer before I did all of this so I was wondering if I did the same thing but instead of moving it I could power the pc on again?

[@amelliamendel2227]

I'm trying to upgrade my PC, but I work at home and I absolutely need to preserve my work account. It has work tools and other such things set up which I can not lose.

[@hjarsen7296]

Is it a account? (Logged into a app or a internet website) or is it something you downloaded?

[@amelliamendel2227]

@@hjarsen7296 it's a windows account

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

I'm in the same boat :( Did the motherboard change only, and lost my digital license. I'm afraid of this video because I'm not into computers...if something gows wrong I'm not sure how to fix it.

[@quintriggins6557]

I have two hdd's in mirror raid. Does this affect this process? I will be putting them in a new build with different motherboard, processor, and ram. I will be using the same graphics card.

[@Prod2Step]

whats up brother, quick question if I remove my HD drive that does not contain my OS or any hardware related drivers or any drivers at all. (That does contain all my sound samples and VST Plugins, so basically a storage drive for production) and plug it into my new laptop so i dont have to reinstall all my plugins / kits it should work with ease correct, all my files and everything should be there? Thank you in advance.

[@danwilliams7320]

Thank you for this great tutorial, I built a new pc and needed to transfer my hard drive over to it, and it worked great. Did anyone have to create a new user account profile? I did, as you said in the video. How do I remove it and also the drivers for my previous motherboard please? Thanks again.

[@hankikewoj8863]

What if I haven’t done anything thing and don’t have another computer to do it will it be fine?

[@DiegoSepu95]

BEWARE! personal files (pictures, documents, etc) will be on Windows.old folder under User/username

[@nolansullivan9196]

I’m planning on doing the change this weekend. For this comment, do you mean all those personal files will be saved and moved to the “new” pc and be in the file path user/username/windows.old

[@DiegoSepu95]

@@nolansullivan9196 yeah, also all the installed programs did not work after this procedure, I think I saw another process that only errased drivers and on the new pc only update them and that's faster and programs and files will keep original place and work.

[@n.lundqvist2879]

dont hate me if this sounds dumb, nut all i want is windows to transfer, is it not possible to just move my SSD (in my case its a ssd) to the new PC and when its all set up the do a clean reinstall of the OS? thanks for help

[@emrldpreviews]

could you just use sysprep to wipe all drivers or do you have to wipe bluetooth and graphics first?

[@lokeyartist]

Will this work if the new computer already has windows installed and so does the old hard drive?

[@1legomaster32]

I'm gonna be a broken record here in asking this, but will having pre-built PC at all effect this process? Will it work?

[@waterzonegt9179]

I’m Reseting my Harddrive in my Old pc it has 900gb and my new Pc don’t have one it just has a Ssd Would I be fine to reset it and install it and use it as a external bc the ssd has windows 10 installed etc

[@Xusphy]

Not sure if you or anyone could answer this, but all of my files in Documents and Downloads (everything in the /User/myprofile) were erased. I followed everything except of course backing up everything and creating a dummy account to log in, hoping that logging in with my microsoft account would be fine. Lo and behold, my programs were there, but my folders with documents were gone. I tried using WinDirStat to find them, but couldn't. Is there a way to restore the files?

[@teccmo]

I'm gonna be trying this today, installing a ASrock B350 Fatality board / Ryzen .. replacing a FX-8320 and an Asus 970 Pro Gaming. This looks like it's gonna be good help, I appreciate it. I'll comment on how it goes for me.

[@noturaveragewatcher]

How’d it go?

[@teccmo]

I followed SDT's steps and took a tip from another video.. it worked perfectly. New Ryzen 1600x , DDR4 ram opposed to ddr3, same gpu, sapphire nitro rx480 gb, ... the B350 Fatality mobo has a specific boost for that card... I don't know if it's ASRock's patent or something in bios.. but after updating it (one past the bios it shipped with) there is an option that says "Sapphire Boost" .. same 3 hard drives.. it might as well been seemless... good look SDT. Helpful vid.

[@tylerb5441]

Coincidence dude, I have the same motb and cpu

[@teccmo]

I can't remember now if anything with the activation changed...I wanna say it wasn't, I'm about 95% sure on that. There has been a major Win 10 update since I swapped them out.

[@KarimGT500]

my old PC came with Windows 8 preinstalled which was then later upgraded to Windows 10, i then installed a new SSD on that machine, the question is, can i move this SSD to my new built computer with new motherboard in it ? ( i dont need the old motherboard ), thanks

[@ALEX19960609]

It asks you to create a new Windows user because sysprep makes your system go into OOBE (Out of Box Experience) a.k.a. first boot of the OS ever.

[@solokei3613]

this is so helpful. Gamer tutorials don't ever understand why people would need to keep their windows 10 for music data and softwares

[@tolgahk84]

Perhaps you should update your video, you no-longer have to contact Microsoft to get your Win 10 Activated. If you use your Mircosoft Account to access your PC, it automatically links your activation key to your Microsoft Account, when you install your HDD into your new PC and it throws up the "Not Activated" error, just click on the tab that says "I changed hardware on this PC recently" add in your current user password along with your Microsoft Account email and password, then it will throw up a link showing all your Registered Keys, just select the one which corresponds to your previous build and it should activate. Heres a link that explains it further windowscentral.com/how-re-activate-windows-10-after-hardware-change

[@SoundDesignTutorials]

thanks for the heads up

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

It doesn't work, if it worked before, not now. I couldn't activate W0 digital license and had to rebuild everything my old MB again to reactivate w10. New MB is there with no use since I buyed it :( It seems that I'de have to call microsoft by phone and etc.

[@alexrobinson2598]

I know you may have mentioned this. But wjen i tried this. All went perfect. Except desktop is now blank and lost any file that was on the desktop. Any idea where it might be stored?

[@RexSmithII]

I have a z270 board with a i7 7700k with OS on 2- m.2s in raid zero. I want to go with the i9 9900k, so I need a z390 board. is there a way for this to work when my old computer is on raid zero? can I copy everything to a external hardrive, then wipe the m.2s clean and put the m.2s in the new board and bring back the OS from the external hhd?

[@ariguest596]

Just checking, but will this work with any Retail edition of Windows 10? My laptop uses a Retail windows 10 version, and I want to migrate the drive to my new build. Will this work? Thanks!

[@pierrelb1]

Hello, I've got a quite complicated situation.. My friends did a full reset on his pc (an old dell vostro with I5 2400) and then the USB keyboard and mouse stopped working as soon as windows boots up and he stays blocked at the configuration for windows first boot.. (It works in the bios but no USB legacy mode, and no ps/2 connectors on the motherboard...) basically he's blocked and he can't install the keyboard/mouse drivers because he can't get into windows. I have a PC, recent motherboard, I7 7700K, if I boot up my pc with his hdd (no drivers installed on his windows yet so it should boot up without conflict?) and then install his keyboard and mouse drivers, then delete any motherboard drivers and then put it back into his pc, the keyboard and mouse would work? Thanks for your video !

[@antisocialblender9505]

One sad thing is if you use Nvidia shadow play to record videos make sure to put them on a flash drive because if you do his you will loose them

[@SoundDesignTutorials]

Mr.Potato unfortunately any pictures videos/documents need to be backed up before the move.

[@forsale313]

Never seen this method, thank you for sharing.

[@SamHuang2303]

hey man all you had to say was sysprep haha. appreciate your insight, looking forward to migrating once all my new components are in

[@StephenPhillips]

I am going to upgrade my motherboard soon. Will this work?

[@arttuleppanen8706]

I have same question

[@arttuleppanen8706]

@classic duck thanks

[@arttuleppanen8706]

@classic duck oh ok i guess ill stil try

[@arttuleppanen8706]

@Luca Balaj I have win 10 on my old pv will I lose my licence?

[@arttuleppanen8706]

@Luca Balaj I did not get it from the cmd, but I got it with a software called SoftKey Revealer (scans my pc). You think the key is legit? (BTW thx for helping a noob:)

[@HatedHatred]

Actually worked like a charm. Thank you kindly for this.

[@kouroshhoushidari6264]

Hi I'm not sure if I'll get a response on this but what if my old hard drive is in a broken laptop and i cant uninstall ? will that be an issue?

[@TheDeepPlanet]

Hi guys. I had an interesting issue come up when trying to do this. Because my old machine is so old, the file structure on the SSD wasn't compatible with my new build. I had exactly the same reason for wanting to keep my install - I have video editing software, music software and photo software etc. I'm not a professional but I hope to be one day. I landed up installing to an old SSD that I reformatted. Fortunately I can copy the windows files (most importantly my wife's desktop files and mine too). For the most part I keep data on separate drives and use my SSD for running software. Anyway, the good side is that I'm going to have a clean install and Install things as I need them and I haven't lost my windows desktop, download, pictures etc. If you're interested the error message that I got when I went to install windows off a USB - " Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks" - this is the reason my new machine would not boot off my old machines SSD. If you are stuck with this issue, just google that statement and there's a video on it.

[@ninjaishproductions2.053]

If i have the same software on both pcs should i delete it on the old hard drive.

[@enrolledagent1246]

so my mobo died and couldnt do any of these things, how do i active it on a all new mobo and cpu

[@grimbea_jow]

same happened to me, I would be grateful if anyone answer this

[@enrolledagent1246]

@@grimbea_jow I ended up taking it into a shop near me, guy had it up and running in 30 minutes if that. It's worth than trying to convert it over with half ass explanations on yt

[@pivottech8881]

@@enrolledagent1246 did your mobo die cus of this video? Because you have to do it on a clean working pc then remove it do your repairs and then click it back in or did you follow it to the T? Just so I know cus I'm doing some work for a pal dont. want to mess it up for him I did see you sent it to a shop so ye it's good yours is working now Stay safe merry Christmas

[@enrolledagent1246]

@@pivottech8881 mobo died randomly on me, nothing to do with videos

[@SARCKO_]

Can you reset the pc right after you move your drive???, i dont care about saving any stuff. I just dont want to have to activate my windows again?

[@huskysharky9025]

If I have windows 10 pro on my computer and move my drive to my laptop is there a way to revert to windows 10 home

[@youngtilt5506]

so youll still be able to use ur pc after deleting the graphic drivers?????????? O and if im doing this w two drives what do i do about sys prep on the non boot drive? still shutdown or restart so i can do the boot drive after?

[@SoundDesignTutorials]

Willie mac yes, only delete drivers for external graphics cards. You will still be able to use the monitor port on your mobo.

[@saucysauce593]

if i have a ssd with only windows on it, how would i put my old hdd that also has windows on it?

[@Lenny-zn8hn]

also possible if I once owned a Win7 license but then Upgraded to the free Win10 when it was possible?

[@tamwilfred]

I did everything you said but when I turned on my system it didn't show my ssd as a bootable drive. The ssd is shown but I wasn't able to boot from it with windows on it. Is there something I missed. I deleted most of the drivers that I could think of from the old setup. I then ran the sys prep.

[@seen3804]

did u figure it out

[@tamwilfred]

@@seen3804 I don't remember I think it worked. Or I might have just reformatted it. It is hard to keep track since I have two computers and three laptops and handful of other devices. It's been so long. Are you running into the same problem? I think I either disconnected all the other drives and just used the SSD or I messed around with the BIOS. Or I might have used a bootable USB and tried to fix OS on the SSD.

[@donpercent]

Is it possible the windows will work without everything what you did? Just plug it in and it will run on a new PC? People say its a bit risky so I dont know if I should try when I get a new build. I think its safer to just get a new drive and install a clean system.

[@yassinefreeman8161]

I did that and I had to reinstall windows 10 to default settings

[@yassinefreeman8161]

Without usb or anything

[@bobcollard11]

No problems migrating from HP 8300 SFF to HP Z230 Tower using same Graphic card and still with Intel Core i7 though it is faster. The system at startup told me I had a new CPU and I accepted it. Never had anything else lost. All other things work. Had to upgrade firmware and BIOS which is internal, due to this being a refurbished computer.

[@reviewchan9806]

I've read that since W10 and esp Windows 11 that it's now more than ever easier to just pop the old drive into the new PC and have it pick up where you left off as it will resolve driver/mobo/processor conflicts and update them all accordingly. Can you do a video on how this migration is done on Windows 11?

[@raindogred]

I got a straight swap from 2 identical dell optiplex models..was just going load the old drive via a usb to sata box. Now thinking i might change the boot order in bios, see what happens?? The old ones got an activated win10, the new one doesn’t. Anyone know if you can get win10 from an old computer and use it on a new machine. The old ones not going to be used. It would suck to have to pay for a new win10 activation key as it would cost more than the new computer. I only use pc for music production..just got done putting in the wifi card, drivers for my interface, Reaper..gonna take forever..so yeah..so much easier swapping the drive..thats why i searched up this vid..cheers for the info

[@DjSmoothNY]

Question/comment: a few days ago I tried a simple swap from my old pc to a brand new pc. It didn’t work. Told me no os found. Failure. I’m doing a new build from scratch and wonder if I should try it again or go with this method. I use windows 10 enterprise version. Any helps appreciated.

[@CircuitBird]

Your tutorial saved me a tonne of trouble and dead braincells. You were straight to the point and I'm glad to have crossed your videos. Thank you so much!

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

HI, I'm into the same issues of W10 asking for reactivation after hardware change, and when finishing the troubleshooting, it does nothing! Never was able to recover my digital license. This was past month and didn't know about this method. I have a PC for music only, and need to upgrade motherboard while keeping the billion plugins & audio stuff. So basically, all motherboard related drivers/programs should go off, do the sysprep with shutdown, add my new motherboard, and boot up, create new user, then install new drivers and that's it? My digital license won't be afected? It's a similar ASUS, just a little better model. Should I download all new drivers before doing all this work or use the CD that comes in the Asus package? Wish me luck, I don't want to reinstall ALL, it's a whole nightmare and never gets closer to what you had before....there's no way to replicate configurations from 5 years ago.

[@seen3804]

did u figure it out

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

@@seen3804 Hi, no, sadly...all I have is a watermark saying ''Activate windows. Go to Settings to activate''. It goes On and Off, not to worry much, only that I have that watermark on any screen recording, and can't personalize my toolbar, wallpaper, colors, etc, anymore. Gladly it was on dark mode and a dark wallpaper before the change, so it is fixed with that 😄 my eyes thanked me so much!

[@seen3804]

Veronica Abbott Cazares u can go on Kinguin and buy a windows activation key really really cheap to get rid of that

[@gabrielalbu608]

Sir! I have a big problem...it all started when i removed my hardware form my old pc(old components) to my new one(with new components)with windows 10 installed.I succeded in opening windows 10 on the new Pc but unfortunatly he is crashing sometimes (Error Your Pc ran into a problem,we need to restart and we are collecting errors) and then after the restart (20,30,150 minutes)he is crashing again

[@arleosaguid6727]

I build a new system then moved my old ssd to the new system and its showing "reboot and select proper boot media" whar should i do

[@TAXOPAREI]

ERROR : '' Sysprep was not able to validate your Windows installation . Review the log file at %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Pnther\setupact.log for details....... ( i removed old win 7 from old hdd ) pls some help !

[@wabbirquacks7164]

If all I’m doing is buying a new motherboard do I have to uninstall drivers ?

[@Nevrbloom]

If I reformatted my hard drive could i just swap my old hdd into a new pc as a secondary? I don't care about lost data im backing up the things I need to google drive.