[SOLVED] Intel hard drive drivers to ryzen drivers

[MaGz562]

Ok so I have a pc with an i3-7100 and a new one that I built with a ryzen 5 2600. Everything is done but all I need to do is transfer my hard drive from the old pc to the new pc. My question is will I have to remove any current intel drivers on the HDD? And if so, what should I do? I don’t want to clean my drive and lose all my files and data.

 

[carocuore]

I doubt Windows would survive a mobo/CPU swap, even if you remove Intel drivers you won't have the AMD compatible files there so it'll most likely fail to boot or act funny (bluescreens, crashes, etc).
The moment you install Windows the basic drivers are copied from the disc/flash drive to the hard drive in order to load the OS.

If you have about 30GB free on the drive you can make a new blank partition from the Intel computer and then transfer the drive and reinstall Windows on that partition alone, the rest of the files will remain on a second larger partition.

 

[USAFRet]

Ok so I have a pc with an i3-7100 and a new one that I built with a ryzen 5 2600. Everything is done but all I need to do is transfer my hard drive from the old pc to the new pc. My question is will I have to remove any current intel drivers on the HDD? And if so, what should I do? I don’t want to clean my drive and lose all my files and data.

This is the OS drive?
Intel -> Ryzen?

You need a full wipe and reinstall. Not just the "drivers".

Trying to just slap the old drive in the new system, there are 3 possible outcomes:

1. It works just fine
2. It fails completely
3. It "works", but you're chasing issues for weeks/months.

#3 is the likely outcome, followed by #2.
Win 10 is better than previous versions, but by no means 100% guaranteed to work. Especially crossing brands like this.
We'd ALL like it to "just work". It does not.


Assuming the current Intel system still works, this is when you prepare for this.

Also, the OS license/activation...
For the OS activation, read and do this before you change any parts:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20530/windows-10-reactivating-after-hardware-change

 

[USAFRet]

and lose all my files and data

And you should have a good backup of all that anyway.
No matter what you're doing.

 

[MaGz562]

I understand. I think ill just clean the drive and reinstall windows shouldnt be too much work 😉)

 

[Paperdoc]

Yes, that is the right way. It is not super short and simple, though. Once you have put a fresh Install of Windows on your HDD, it has NO info in its fresh Registry of any of your application software. So you can NOT simply copy your old software files from the backup to the HDD. You actually have to re-Install all of your application software so that process can place the correct info into the Registry for each app. THEN you can copy the user-generated files from your backup to your HDD.

BEFORE going any further, you might look on the Microsoft website or around the web for some utility that can do much of this for you, possibly by copying info from the old Registry to the new one. It will be labelled for assistance in re-installing Windows, or something like that. I dont know whether such exist, or how well they work, but I'd certainly look first.