How would I upgrade my amd motherboard & cpu to a intel motherboard & cpu?

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hey guys! I was wanting to upgrade my amd motherboard and cpu to a intel motherboard and cpu. I read a thread that when you upgrade your motherboard or cpu from a brand to another, it can cause your windows to not boot up since it won't have matching drivers, and can make you re-install you windows. I have no budget to buying another windows and my pc doesn't have a dvd drive. So how can I change my motherboard without screwing up all my files I have now?
 
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He's talking about tracking purchase history, and yes, if you order as a guest on newegg it will not show up in your purchase history later. Believe me, I've done it by accident and then couldn't find it later, nor could I find the receipt to use the order number. Couldn't verify my purchase and couldn't warrant the item.

Finally did track it down via my credit card company but it was a major PITA so if you can order from a logged in account it's much better.
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You'll have to do a clean install which means byebye files.

Copy what you want (docs, photos email addies etc), except the programs you installed, before you do it

Whatever programs you installed will have to be reinstalled. Only thing you dont have to worry about are steam games (well that I know of)
 
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i am using win 10 so that means I have to back up all my important files, change motherboard and cpu, and just sign back into my win 10 acc?
 
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Yes.

Do this first: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki/insider_wintp-insider_security/how-to-connect-to-a-microsoft-account-in-windows/c1614fe6-a9cd-4723-a9e0-7293d9cdfd4a?auth=1

For win 10, do this:

download the ISO from Microsoft and burn it to a flash drive. ISO download link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
windows
Download the tool and burn ISO to flash drive : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool

After you get the ISO burned onto flash drive, boot using USB, some bios is using F9 to choose which drive/media to boot, not sure about yours. You can always enter BIOS and pick USB as the first boot priority, you can change the order after installation :) Let me know if there is any confusion.
 
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sorry to keep asking, but if I change my motherboard, that will delete my win10 that i have rn?
 
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Yes, even with a hardware change, so long as your copy of Win10 is registered via Microsoft account, you should be able to reinstall and reactivate the license. I've done it plenty of times.

And technically, you don't ALWAYS have to reinstall if you change your motherboard and CPU. I've seen others do it plenty of times and I've done it myself on customer machines if it was absolutely necessary due to some legacy software that would not have been possible to reinstall for one reason or another. BUT, and it's a big but (No, not that kind), it's ALWAYS a much, much better idea to do a clean install anytime you change platforms from AMD to Intel, Intel to AMD or even one generation to another sometimes as there can be major differences in the chipset drivers and configurations.

If possible, always do a clean install, but you can try it without doing that and if there's any problems, then the worst case scenario is you end up doing the clean install after all.


You can use the following tutorial, simply ignoring the part regarding upgrading and focusing instead on just the parts regarding a clean install.

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2784691/perform-clean-install-windows-upgrading.html
 
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It is not about deleting, you os is still on hard drive if you don't delete it. But MB is using its own firmware and the windows chipset drivers is the way windows communicate with MB. With new MB, firmware changed, and those drivers can no longer deliver correct instructions, so windows can not boot successfully with old chipset drivers, you will probably see Blue screen. That is why we need a fresh install and install correct drivers. Some has completed the process without clean install, but some experienced weird crash later on due to some corrupt drivers or so. Your call :)
 
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can i just delete the drivers i am using now?
 
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Not really, because your current windows will not function properly due to driver missing. Why clean install is fine? The install media is actually the OS you are temporarily running and you can anything to the original OS without crash.
 
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so i just need to backup all my important data and download wind 10 on a usb stick than i can put my product key in to activate win10?
 
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win10 does not have a product key, that is for win7. For win10, create a microsoft account and link to it.

Repeat above:

1. Back up data/files
2. Do this : https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki/insider_wintp-insider_security/how-to-connect-to-a-microsoft-account-in-windows/c1614fe6-a9cd-4723-a9e0-7293d9cdfd4a?auth=1
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download the ISO from Microsoft and burn it to a flash drive. ISO download link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
windows
Download the tool and burn ISO to flash drive : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool
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After you get the ISO burned onto flash drive, boot using USB, some bios is using F9 to choose which drive/media to boot, not sure about yours. You can always enter BIOS and pick USB as the first boot priority, you can change the order after installation :) Let me know if there is any confusion.
 
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so instead of product key, you just sign in and win10 will be activated?
 
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ok, so now when i am going to download win10 on a usb, how big should the usb and what kind of usb does it have to be?
 
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I don't know why you say that. I've never had ANY reliability issues creating boot media for Windows 10 using the Windows USB/DVD creation tool as explained here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool

And located here:

http://wudt.codeplex.com/


Rufus might work just as well, but to say it's MORE reliable, eh, I'm not on board with that. To be MORE reliable, there would have to be reliability issues doing it another way and I've not seen that there are any reliability or any other kind of issues doing it the official way.
 
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Also, if you want to TRY and change platforms without reinstalling, one thing you can do is prepare the system for the change of platform BEFOREHAND, so you don't have any driver issues after the hardware change. It doesn't always work out, but it usually does unless there are already issues with the current OS installation.

https://scottiestech.info/2010/03/17/upgrade-your-motherboard-without-reinstalling-your-os/
 
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So what is going to happen to my 1tb harddrive that i am using rn?
 
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So if I had some files left in the harddrive, will it wipe it automatically?
 
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