OS SSD into New PC

[Knowlesi__16]

I have recently bought a new system from Scan. I decided not to buy W10 with it as I currently have it in my system. is swapping it over as simple as moving the SSD into the new system and hey presto its there or is there more to it (99% sure it wont be this simple) Would it be wise to make a new boot drive with the W10 OS on it and then do a fresh install and move all my game files on my SSD onto my HDD and then once I have it back onto the SSD via the boot drive then move everything back onto my SSD? Really don't want to install over 220GB of games again .

 

[Colif]

I have recently bought a new system from Scan. I decided not to buy W10 with it as I currently have it in my system. is swapping it over as simple as moving the SSD into the new system and hey presto its there or is there more to it (99% sure it wont be this simple)

If you do this before and after moving ssd, you can use same licence - reactivating win 10 after installing new hardware but it will not work in old system anymore, this moves the licence.

Would it be wise to make a new boot drive with the W10 OS on it and then do a fresh install and move all my game files on my SSD onto my HDD and then once I have it back onto the SSD via the boot drive then move everything back onto my SSD? Really don't want to install over 220GB of games again .

Yes.

Download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB
follow this guide: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

when you reach screen asking for licence, click "I don't have a key" and win 10 will continue to install and reactivate once finished

Are the games in a steam folder? If so, you can move them to a new hdd easy and then once Steam client is reinstalled, just point the location of the steam library at the old folder and it will find them all again.