Moving SSD with Win7 to new computer with fresh Win10 Install

[Schweet]

Here's my situation:

I have taken my 500GB SSD with Win7 on it (and my old files which I would like to keep) out of my old computer. That was an old core2quad computer, and so the SSD has all the old drivers for that computer.

I have a usb boot to windows 10 iso image.

I am making a totally new computer (z170, pascal) and so none of the drivers will be correct of course.

What I would like to do is place the old SSD as is into my new computer, boot from the win10 usb, and fresh install windows 10, but with all my old files in the windows.old folder.

Will this work? My worries are that I might:
1) lose the files from my old SSD and not be able to recover windows.old
2) mess up the installation of windows 10 with all the drivers or whatever from windows 7, slowing down the computer and requiring a reinstall.

I did this once already putting my old HDD back into my old computer after I took my newer SSD out of it, and it seemed to work (kept old files in windows.old), but that was for two storage devices that had been the primary storage in the same computer (at different times).

Should this go pretty smoothly?

 

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Question from Schweet : "Moving SSD with Win7 to new computer with fresh Win10 Install"

Here's my situation:

I have taken my 500GB SSD with Win7 on it (and my old files which I would like to keep) out of my old computer. That was an old core2quad computer, and so the SSD has all the old drivers for that computer.

I have a usb boot to windows 10 iso image.

I am making a totally new computer (z170, pascal) and so none of the drivers will be correct of course.

What I would like to do is place the old SSD as is into my new computer, boot from the win10 usb, and fresh install windows 10, but with all my old files in the windows.old folder.

Will this work? My worries are that I might:
1) lose the files from my old SSD and not be able to recover windows.old
2) mess up the installation of windows 10 with all the drivers or whatever from windows 7, slowing down the computer and requiring a reinstall.

I did this once already putting my old HDD back into my old computer after I took my newer SSD out of it, and it seemed to work (kept old files in windows.old), but that was for two storage devices that had been the primary storage in the same computer (at different times).

Should this go pretty smoothly?

 

[USAFRet]

What I would like to do is place the old SSD as is into my new computer, boot from the win10 usb, and fresh install windows 10, but with all my old files in the windows.old folder.

No, this will almost certainly not work. Don't count on windows.old to preserve your stuff.

Define what you mean by "old files".
'Files', yes. Applications, no.

Win 10...you've purchased a valid OS license for this?
Do you have another drive, of any type? If so, copy your personal files to that.
If you don't, get one.

Then, install Win 10 on that 500GB SSD. Preferably, wiping the SSD when you do.
Later, recover your personal files from that 'other drive'.

 

[Schweet]

What I would like to do is place the old SSD as is into my new computer, boot from the win10 usb, and fresh install windows 10, but with all my old files in the windows.old folder.

No, this will almost certainly not work. Don't count on windows.old to preserve your stuff.

Define what you mean by "old files".
'Files', yes. Applications, no.

Win 10...you've purchased a valid OS license for this?
Do you have another drive, of any type? If so, copy your personal files to that.
If you don't, get one.

Then, install Win 10 on that 500GB SSD. Preferably, wiping the SSD when you do.
Later, recover your personal files from that 'other drive'.

but I'll get to keep my files if I do this? Including images and video? When I did it the first time windows.old retained working versions of cpuz and other small applications as well as files. I'm not expecting to keep large applications like games, just files.

Will all the drivers change over correctly when i install win 10 on the new computer?

I'll buy the win 10 license later, right now it's just the iso download from microsoft.

 

[USAFRet]

Don't rely on windows.old, or the OS install process, to keep anything. It may or may not.

 

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Don't rely on windows.old, or the OS install process, to keep anything. It may or may not.

but will the drivers and everything be fine?

 

[USAFRet]

Don't rely on windows.old, or the OS install process, to keep anything. It may or may not.

but will the drivers and everything be fine?

You appear to be doing a fresh install in a new system.
You will have to install the drivers for that system.