Question I want to upgrade almost everything on my PC except the GPU and storage ?

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Please keep it to one thread. This is the fourth thread about the same build; please don't make a new thread for every single aspect of a single build. Make one thread about the build.

Any future threads on this build's planning I will merge to this thread.
 
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Not officially supported, but I have great luck slapping drives into new builds and just rocking and rolling. (uninstall old drivers, install new drivers). I recently just done this from an intel to AMD build zero issues. (updated amd drivers once it booted up of course, uninstalled intel stuff I didn't need). Then as soon as I did that I upgraded to windows 11, zero issues of any kind. (I have done this with multiple builds) I know I know I know............don't worry I'm a pro if it dont' work and I need to fix it. (try at your own risk)

The real way to do this, backup up your files and reinstall windows. Backup via cloud or SSD etc.

Good luck!

(lot of good videos on youtube if you need help)
 
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If you just want to keep files, back them up. If you are talking about applications and OS install, that is trickier.

One option would be to get a new drive while you are at it and attempt to clone your old OS to the new drive. Then try the new drive in the new build. That way if it doesn't work, you still have the old system to transfer your files the old fashioned way to a fresh OS.
 
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sonofjesse said:
Not officially supported, but I have great luck slapping drives into new builds and just rocking and rolling.
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And conversely, I've had it fail.
Both personally, and seen many many people in here.

ANY operation like this MUST be preceded by a known good backup of anything you do not wish to lose, and preparation for a full wipe and reinstall.

Just slapping it together and hoping is a fools game.
 
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It is possible to just transfer the old drives to the new system, especially the one that does not host the OS. For the OS drice (usually called C), it is recommended to reinstall Windows, but not 100% mandatory. My boyfriend got it to work just fine after upgrading to a new platform (MB, CPU, RAM). It mightfail for others. What I would recommend is, backup your OS-drive, for example on an external drive that is big enough to save all data. Uninstall drivers, then transition to the new system. Did it work? Great. Did it not? Reinstall the OS, install drivers, copy your data back, done. Keep in mind that you likely have to reinstall all programs in this case no matter what drive they were on, so I would save the installation files for those somewhere, too. If you want to be really, really sure nothing goes wrong, also backup data from the non-OS drive. But whatever you do, always. Backup. Data!
 
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