Getting New Components; Need to move hdd over to almost entirely new pc

[LucaDag9]

Hey guys, I'm just wondering if there is a way to be able to take my 2tb hard drive and move motherboards (and systems) along with a not-OEM copy of windows.

What I'm wondering is; Will it be hard? Will I have to find my product key?

Thanks!

~Luca

 

[aquielisunari]

Hey guys, I'm just wondering if there is a way to be able to take my 2tb hard drive and move motherboards (and systems) along with a not-OEM copy of windows.

What I'm wondering is; Will it be hard? Will I have to find my product key?

Thanks!

~Luca

It's extremely simple for some. Unplug HDD and plug into new board. Is the 2TB a storage drive? The drive with the OS on it is a little more complicated. It's easiest to install a fresh version of Windows. If you have a 8GB or larger USB drive you can download the media creation tool https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and then you boot from that and install it to your OS drive. Make sure you onnly have the USB drive and your boot drive installed. Install extra storage drive(s) after Windows is installed, all drivers have been updated and a reboot have been performed. The final reboot is just to make sure Windows is operating correctly.

If you opt to simply move the drives you might encounter a blue screen error. Drivers will have to be updated after the move.

Windows will have to be reactivated if you are changing motherboards. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20530/windows-10-reactivating-after-hardware-change.

How to find the product key? Install https://www.piriform.com/speccy/download. After that is running click on Operating System.