Question GA-X58A-UD7

[rebert]

I am building a new system and I need to replace my 15 year old HDD with a 24tb drive. I'm going to clone my Current OS windows 10 64 bit. just need to know if this is possible

 

[USAFRet]

I am building a new system and I need to replace my 15 year old HDD with a 24tb drive. I'm going to clone my Current OS windows 10 64 bit. just need to know if this is possible

Moving a drive from a X58 era motherboard to anything semi newish....this WILL fail.

 

[rebert]

Moving a drive from a X58 era motherboard to anything semi newish....this WILL fail.

I expect to have to have to buy a win11 to upgrade, I just want to clone my drive so that I don't have to reload all my software. Can I put it on an external dock and partition it first and then clone to a partition?

 

[USAFRet]

I expect to have to have to buy a win11 to upgrade, I just want to clone my drive so that I don't have to reload all my software. Can I put it on an external dock and partition it first and then clone to a partition?

A valid and activated Win 10 install will upgrade to Win 11, seamlessly. $0.

Your problem lies in trying to move that current install off the X58 motherboard to a new whatever.
That will almost certainly fail

 

[rebert]

A valid and activated Win 10 install will upgrade to Win 11, seamlessly. $0.

Your problem lies in trying to move that current install off the X58 motherboard to a new whatever.
That will almost certainly fail

my current board doesn't have TPM so I'm building a new gigabyte system and I'm assuming that if enough component are different that I will have to use a disc to make it legal. I just want to put in a drive that I'm relatively certain I won't get a S M A R T failure

 

[USAFRet]

my current board doesn't have TPM so I'm building a new gigabyte system and I'm assuming that if enough component are different that I will have to use a disc to make it legal. I just want to put in a drive that I'm relatively certain I won't get a S M A R T failure

I get that.

In this new system, you WILL have to do a full fresh OS install.
You can probably u7se your current Win 10 license key to activate the new Win 11 install, but that does not mean you do not have to do a fresh OS install.

Licensing and operation are two completely different things.

 

[rebert]

I get that.

In this new system, you WILL have to do a full fresh OS install.
You can probably u7se your current Win 10 license key to activate the new Win 11 install, but that does not mean you do not have to do a fresh OS install.

Licensing and operation are two completely different things.

well i am assuming that the X58A won't see a 24tb drive so I'll get a smaller cache drive and try my luck at doing an upgrade without having to do a wipe

 

[USAFRet]

well i am assuming that the X58A won't see a 24tb drive so I'll get a smaller cache drive and try my luck at doing an upgrade without having to do a wipe

Its not the drive size.

If the current OS drive were a simple 1TB, and moving that to the new hardware...it will almost certainly fail.

You can try if you wish.

But do not do this without a known good backup of anything on that drive.

Be prepared for 100% fail, and having to do a full OS reinstall.