Okay so Long story "short" this is my first pc build in over 15 years. I have just been using laptops. I finally got all my components and got the system together and a build where I have had to replace the mobo and cpu. The Rig is a MSI B450 Tomahawk with a Ryzen 5 2600x with windows 10 pro registered key on the 500GB SSD. The first CPU was overheating on idle and wasn't even boosting to 4.2 Amazon agreed to return the cpu and sent me a new one. Installed the new CPU and noticed the retention arm for the AM4 CPU socket was weak and didn't have the normal bit of tension I am used to. So after putting the stock cooler on and hooking all the connections, I fire it up and I get power fans all spinning, including the cpu cooler, no post and a debug indicating CPU. I retry again same thing, so now I remove all connections and clean and reapply thermal paste and reinstall cpu reconnect all connections again and try again but this time nothing, no power no display nothing. The CPU is still under 30 day warranty so I return it, Sadly the motherboard is about 10 days past the 30 day retailer warranty so I RMA the board to MSI. MSI have sent out a new motherboard otw and the new cpu also is otw should receive them sometime next week. So my question is when I put it back together is there a way to continue to use the ssd with the installed windows if so how, and if not do i need to recreate a win10 flash drive and somehow reformat the ssd and reinstall windows and hope that my registration key will take or take the loss and get another win10 key? Could someone please tell me my options and what steps to take please? I do not have another PC that I can use to reformat the ssd drive before hand if that is the option from another pc as all I have currently is an older laptop and a bunch of usb flash drives. Or would it be easier to just buy a new ssd? I am sorry it's just been so long since I have done any of this. Thanks for any and all help or advice in advance, appreciate.
James
James