Question New ASRock B760M won't boot windows from old mSATA drive

[zekeandej]

I'm trying to upgrade an old desktop from an intel board w/i3 3220, to an ASRock B760M with i5 12600KF. The board posts and goes to bios screen, but the boot menu seems garbled.
I put the mSATA drive from the old board in a 2.5" SATA adapter after the cloned image on the WD 500G platter drive didn't work either. I had planned on using the free upgrade to Windows 11, but couldn't on the old platform. Has anyone run into this before?

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[Lutfij]

I'm trying to upgrade an old desktop from an intel board w/i3 3220, to an ASRock B760M with i5 12600KF
You can't boot off the old drive with the older OS, you will need to reinstall the OS since you've swapped onto a newer, latter gen motherboard. Another observation is that you have the rams in the wrong slots, they should be in slots A2 and B2.

 

[USAFRet]

I'm trying to upgrade an old desktop from an intel board w/i3 3220, to an ASRock B760M with i5 12600KF.

That will require a new OS install.
You can't jump that many generations, and expect the old OS to simply 'work'.

 

[zekeandej]

That will require a new OS install.
You can't jump that many generations, and expect the old OS to simply 'work'.

I think I see a trend here. Hopefully it'll run from an external drive.
Thank you!

 

[USAFRet]

I think I see a trend here. Hopefully it'll run from an external drive.
Thank you!

No, it won't.

 

[zekeandej]

No, it won't.

I meant the new copy of windows. That's how you start on a brand new system, isn't it? I thought I could download a fresh copy of W11 and make a boot drive on a USB stick.

 

[USAFRet]

I meant the new copy of windows. That's how you start on a brand new system, isn't it? I thought I could download a fresh copy of W11 and make a boot drive on a USB stick.

A flash drive to install Windows with, yes.

An external drive with your old Windows install already on it, no.

 

[USAFRet]

I meant the new copy of windows. That's how you start on a brand new system, isn't it? I thought I could download a fresh copy of W11 and make a boot drive on a USB stick.

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