Question New computer with old HD and SSD; won't boot properly.

[Robo Reptile]

System specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 390
Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max
RAM: 16 GB twin sticks

Fair warning: though I have built a PC before, that was a number of years ago and I'm still overall unfamiliar with all this.

As the title suggests, I kept the old SSD and HD from my old computer (Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit is on the SSD) and plugged them into the SATA ports.

Having assembled the computer and plugged everything in, I connected it to the monitor and keyboard and booted it up...

...and, as it turns out, it always results in "YOUR PC RAN INTO A PROBLEM AND NEEDS TO RESTART."

Though, interestingly, sometimes boot-up attempts result in seeing the familiar login screen with the wallpaper for a tantalizing few seconds before it goes to the error message. Not always, though.

The stop code alternates between "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and another I didn't manage to catch.

May I please have some advice?

 

[USAFRet]

I have a long running test of an Unactivated Win 10 Pro, just to see what happens.
Installed in a VM, Dec 8 2016. Still running just fine, accepting the small restrictions.
No customization of the Desktop and Taskbar, and a randomly appearing watermark at bottom right.


A gamble? At best a gamble. Also, money laundering and other criminal activities.

 

[James Mason]

If you can get your old system to boot, you could link the windows 10 license to a microsoft account and then install it on like as many computers as you wanted.

You can actually try reinstalling windows on the old system, since your license is still linked to that hardware, then you can link it to your microsoft account. Then you can transfer the SSD to the new system, reinstall again and during the initial setup, you sign in with your microsoft account and you'll be able to use your license forever basically.

 

[kerberos_20]

if u still didnt wipe your old windows 10, u can still recover your key
boot from your new windows, run this tool
https://github.com/samrocketman/ekeyfinder/releases

in menu click on tools -> load hive
locate your old windows folder and go to system32\config (lets say d:\windows\system32\config)
u should be able to see your windows key now

 

[Robo Reptile]

I'm marking this as "solved" because a PC repair service got the PC working with Windows 10. There were apparantly some hardware issues too, but I flat out could not understand what the guy was saying, so I don't know what they were.

 

[Robo Reptile]

Er...how do I mark this as solved?