[SOLVED] Building a new PC with existing drives

[Adam Jelinek]

Hello so my current system has a ryzen 5 2600 and an rx 580 on a b450 mobo, and I will be building a new ryzen 7 5800x, rtx 3090 on a b550. So my problem is that I am wondering if I could just take my current nvme and hdd, erase all of the GPU drivers, and swap them into my new build. Would any issues arise? Like when I boot to the new PC can't I just remove any other remaining drivers?

 

[USAFRet]

Just want to say that I replaced all components except for the CPU in my PC 2 years ago, reused boot SSD and storage HDD without even uninstalling drivers, everything went smoothly except for windows deactivating. No need to reinstall OS. Maybe I was just lucky...

Yes, you were lucky.
It doesn't always work like that.

 

[DSzymborski]

Just want to say that I replaced all components except for the CPU in my PC 2 years ago, reused boot SSD and storage HDD without even uninstalling drivers, everything went smoothly except for windows deactivating. No need to reinstall OS. Maybe I was just lucky...

You were lucky. Many people drink and drive and get home with crashing; that doesn't make it safe or recommended.

OP, reinstall Windows. Anything worth doing is worth doing correctly.

 

[Adam Jelinek]

@ DSzymborski @USAFRet So I had one last question. When I do build my new pc, should I just build it as usual, then just stick my ssd in my mobo and plug in the windows usb and then remove everything from partitions with the windows install?

 

[USAFRet]

@ DSzymborski @USAFRet So I had one last question. When I do build my new pc, should I just build it as usual, then just stick my ssd in my mobo and plug in the windows usb and then remove everything from partitions with the windows install?

Read this in depth:

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

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[Adam Jelinek]

Read this in depth:

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...

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Okay so I read it in full. So basically, I will flash my bios for my 5000 series cpu. Then build the new system with existing drives, I will leave my hdd not plugged in and then have the windows usb plugged in when I post and it should just start the windows installation where I delete partitions and clean install windows

 

[USAFRet]

Okay so I read it in full. So basically, I will flash my bios for my 5000 series cpu. Then build the new system with existing drives, I will leave my hdd not plugged in and then have the windows usb plugged in when I post and it should just start the windows installation where I delete partitions and clean install windows

Yes.