[SOLVED] Moving my hard drives to a new PC

[SpiderSparrow]

Hey everyone hope you are all doing super fantastic,

Sorry if I am asking in the wrong place.

Basically, soon I am planning to get a brand new pre-built PC from Scan. Anyways, I have like 4 SSDs and 1 SSHD that I wish to move over. I have an Nvme SSD as well in it, but I will keep that in, since I am handing my old PC down to my brother. Do you guys have a recommendation of how to efficiently move the hard drives over without losing data, or I am ok to just take them out and move to the new one and they should work with all the files inside? (my current PC has Win 10 FYI). I know I had to initialise the hard drives, but assume that was because they were new at the time?

Or would you guys recommend moving the windows along with it, so I don't have to pay another £100 for win 10 on the new PC, in case that's possible? Or it's just advisable to just move the hard drives over onto a new Windows PC?

Thanks everyone!

P.s. Also would I be able to connect all these hard drives to this motherboard?

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Will this have enough Sata connection slots?

 

[punkncat]

If the drives are nothing but storage and not in a RAID (etc.) you should be able to just move them over and initialize them in Disk Manager. Your data will be fine.

I cannot recommend bringing your OS drive over "as is". Licensing with W10 can be both by hardware ID or tied to your MS account. In the case that you want to let brother pay for his own license you can make sure the OS is tied to account and (hopefully) verify that it is a license that can be transferred, but would still install clean to the new system.
Many pre-built are going to come with OS license although I am aware of purchase options without to save some money.

It is not uncommon for transferring a drive with OS from one system to another to physically boot up and operate, but it typically leads to various issue down the road. Best to start clean.

 

[SpiderSparrow]

If the drives are nothing but storage and not in a RAID (etc.) you should be able to just move them over and initialize them in Disk Manager. Your data will be fine.

I cannot recommend bringing your OS drive over "as is". Licensing with W10 can be both by hardware ID or tied to your MS account. In the case that you want to let brother pay for his own license you can make sure the OS is tied to account and (hopefully) verify that it is a license that can be transferred, but would still install clean to the new system.
Many pre-built are going to come with OS license although I am aware of purchase options without to save some money.

It is not uncommon for transferring a drive with OS from one system to another to physically boot up and operate, but it typically leads to various issue down the road. Best to start clean.

Thank you!

Yeah that does sound sensible then, and I definitely want my brother to get a fully working PC out the box. Yeah I only have some games and stuff preinstalled on these hard drives, some Unreal Engine files maybe. Assume I can just search from them from their launchers and not have to reinstall?

Also I edited my original post, and was wondering if you would have an answer to this:
would I be able to connect all these hard drives to this motherboard?
ROG STRIX B550-E GAMING | ROG Strix | Gaming Motherboards｜ROG - Republic of Gamers｜ROG United Kingdom

Will this have enough Sata connection slots?

This is what I am getting now.

 

[Bob.B]

Thank you!

Yeah that does sound sensible then, and I definitely want my brother to get a fully working PC out the box. Yeah I only have some games and stuff preinstalled on these hard drives, some Unreal Engine files maybe. Assume I can just search from them from their launchers and not have to reinstall?

Also I edited my original post, and was wondering if you would have an answer to this:
would I be able to connect all these hard drives to this motherboard?
ROG STRIX B550-E GAMING | ROG Strix | Gaming Motherboards｜ROG - Republic of Gamers｜ROG United Kingdom

Will this have enough Sata connection slots?

This is what I am getting now.

Specs say 6 sata ports.