Reinstalling windows after mobo and cpu change?

[Pcenthusiast16]

I have a broken intel board and im on a budget so im switching from intel to amd (ryzen specifically). Ive heard that during the switch i will have to reinstall windows etc. Is it possible to do this without reinstalling windows?

 

[Pcenthusiast16]

Are gpu drivers also located on the os drive?

 

[USAFRet]

Are gpu drivers also located on the os drive?

After you install it, yes.

Where are you in this process?

 

[Pcenthusiast16]

I havent even started yet, i just wanted to know beforehand so to speak

 

[shaneleah29]

i give up! i bought a new drive with windows 10 already installed.

 

[USAFRet]

i give up! i bought a new drive with windows 10 already installed.

Hard drives do not come with Windows already installed.
Not a valid Windows install, anyway.

 

[captaincharisma]

i give up! i bought a new drive with windows 10 already installed.

you bought a HDD that had windows pre-loaded on it? what kind of shady place did you get that from?

 

[toshibitsu]

Re-installing was only necessary before Windows 10. You can still do so in 10, but it's not necessary. I've taken hard drives with 10 installed and transferred them to completely different desktops(even laptops). Only real issue is you may have to re-activate Windows. It's always good to do clean installs of the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website regardless.

Oh and I have even gone as far as to pull a drive(with 10 on it) from a Lenovo laptop and popped it into a Macbook Pro. It still booted right up to 10 and worked fine. On my most recent build/upgrade, I switched a desktop from an Intel based board to a AMD Ryzen based. I didn't re-install Windows on that either and everything is working fine.

 

[USAFRet]

Re-installing was only necessary before Windows 10. You can still do so in 10, but it's not necessary. I've taken hard drives with 10 installed and transferred them to completely different desktops(even laptops). Only real issue is you may have to re-activate Windows. It's always good to do clean installs of the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website regardless.

Oh and I have even gone as far as to pull a drive(with 10 on it) from a Lenovo laptop and popped it into a Macbook Pro. It still booted right up to 10 and worked fine. On my most recent build/upgrade, I switched a desktop from an Intel based board to a AMD Ryzen based. I didn't re-install Windows on that either and everything is working fine.

And I've seen it fail with Win 10.
Most recently, going from a Z77/i5-3570k system to a Z97/i74790k system.
Same drive, perfectly working...no boot.

Win 10 is a LOT better than prev versions. But still not 100%.

It is not 100% guaranteed to work.

 

[shaneleah29]

i give up! i bought a new drive with windows 10 already installed.

you bought a HDD that had windows pre-loaded on it? what kind of shady place did you get that from?

ebay!

 

[USAFRet]

i give up! i bought a new drive with windows 10 already installed.

you bought a HDD that had windows pre-loaded on it? what kind of shady place did you get that from?

ebay!

HAHAHAHA...enjoy your illicit OS license, and you'll be lucky if it does not come preinstalled with various levels of malware and keyloggers.

Oh, and you'll be lucky if it boots up in your specific hardware.

 

[USAFRet]

i give up! i bought a new drive with windows 10 already installed.

So question...what was your original issue?
You just jumped into this thread started by another person.

 

[shaneleah29]

i started a new build with a msi mortor motherboard, pentium dual core chip and a new 2g graphics card. i added an old drive with windows 7 installed and hoped for the best? at first it booted! took all evening to set up but it booted and loaded windows 7! made up i thought to improve it and bought a seagate 500g drive with sierra installed so it'll run opera [an option on my current system] and a an old drive was added for backup. i booted the system and it works, however - it won't boot windows 7?

dismayed, i bought a new drive with windows 10 installed, and rearranged the hdd cables and booted again. it enters the setup 'entering setup now...'/ 'entering boot now...' page and then stops right there! the only hot keys that work are - ctrl+alt +delete = enter setup then add f11 - entering boot? then - nothing. nothing at all! i'm desperate! help me out maaannnnn!#

shane

intel pentium dual core processor
msi mortor B150m motherboard
8 G hyperex ddr4 ram
asus 2G geforce gt 710 graphics card
stock psu [dell] 650+
500G seagate barracuda drive with windows 10 [oem]
500G western digital drive [nfts] reformatted.
500G seagate drive with sierra os installed [so i can run opera and other mac apps]
old dell inspiron case.

 

[USAFRet]

i started a new build with

1. Please start a new thread for your particular situation.

2.

dismayed, i bought a new drive with windows 10 installed

And it does not boot up. Gee...I wonder why?

3. Please see # 1.
But you'll need to do an actual full install of the OS, on the drive, with it living int he system.
If you indeed 'bought' a valid OS. Which is unlikely.

4. Please see #1.