A while ago i built a new pc and changed every part except for my boot drive. i just janked it out of the old one and put in into the new one, installed all bunch of drivers and thought that's that. A while later i had serious issues with my PC and tried all kinds of solutions until someone told me i shouldnt have just transferred my drive over and rather do a fresh windows install as doing otherwise could introduce all kinds of issues that wont be fixed without a new install.
End of that story was that i couldnt get my system to work properly no matter what, even after reinstalling windows, and i just gave up. sent all the parts back and after doing a backup (the wrong way as i would learn later) i reinstalled windows on my old pc again and started from scratch, with most of my data gone and me being extremely frustrated about this whole ordeal for the next month and a half.
Now im planning on building a new system again, and again ill swap out every part for a new one except the drive. Aside from doing a proper backup this time, how would i actually go about transferring all my data over to a new system? Just plugging in the same drive into a whole different system isnt a good idea, at least im told. But manually copying over every file cant be the solution either, so what am i missing? Ive used Macrium Reflect before to clone my boot drive (thinking back, i think i actually didnt just plop in the same drive into my new PC and rather cloned the drive on to a different SSD and used that, but cloning is basically the same as just plugging in the original, right?)
TL😀R how do i transfer over all my data over to a new PC without causing any issues like wrong drivers and such?
End of that story was that i couldnt get my system to work properly no matter what, even after reinstalling windows, and i just gave up. sent all the parts back and after doing a backup (the wrong way as i would learn later) i reinstalled windows on my old pc again and started from scratch, with most of my data gone and me being extremely frustrated about this whole ordeal for the next month and a half.
Now im planning on building a new system again, and again ill swap out every part for a new one except the drive. Aside from doing a proper backup this time, how would i actually go about transferring all my data over to a new system? Just plugging in the same drive into a whole different system isnt a good idea, at least im told. But manually copying over every file cant be the solution either, so what am i missing? Ive used Macrium Reflect before to clone my boot drive (thinking back, i think i actually didnt just plop in the same drive into my new PC and rather cloned the drive on to a different SSD and used that, but cloning is basically the same as just plugging in the original, right?)
TL😀R how do i transfer over all my data over to a new PC without causing any issues like wrong drivers and such?
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