trabsferring operating system to new PC

[James_471]

so im getting a new pc and wondered if there are any risks if i put my old sata 2 hard drive with windows 10 into a new pc

will anything bad happen?
will my games and other items transfer?
just how dangerous is this?

 

[Herc08]

It's not dangerous, but possibly may not work. Reason being that drivers will have to be re-installed. However, I've done this for tesing purposes (took a HDD out of one laptop and into another, like from a ASUS to a Dell) and it booted up. I would recommend linking that Windows to a MS account so the key can be transferred over. Your games and data MAY transfer over, but I always recommend a backup just to safe.

 

[atljsf]

i did that 2 weeks ago, the windowsl icense became deactivated and i had to reinstal sound card and other things, the rest worked well

still do backups first, in case the windows can't boot well, so you have a plan b, reinstall and copy back the backups

 

[Herc08]

i did that 2 weeks ago, the windowsl icense became deactivated and i had to reinstal sound card and other things, the rest worked well

still do backups first, in case the windows can't boot well, so you have a plan b, reinstall and copy back the backups

Did you just swap it, or did you link your MS Account? Also was it the 1607 build? Just asking because I've it perfectly...even on Windows 7.

 

[captaincharisma]

i did that 2 weeks ago, the windowsl icense became deactivated and i had to reinstal sound card and other things, the rest worked well

still do backups first, in case the windows can't boot well, so you have a plan b, reinstall and copy back the backups

Did you just swap it, or did you link your MS Account? Also was it the 1607 build? Just asking because I've it perfectly...even on Windows 7.

reactivating windows 7 is a pain. it never activates over the net now so you have to activate by phone. this happened to me on 2 new installs

 

[Herc08]

i did that 2 weeks ago, the windowsl icense became deactivated and i had to reinstal sound card and other things, the rest worked well

still do backups first, in case the windows can't boot well, so you have a plan b, reinstall and copy back the backups

Did you just swap it, or did you link your MS Account? Also was it the 1607 build? Just asking because I've it perfectly...even on Windows 7.

reactivating windows 7 is a pain. it never activates over the net now so you have to activate by phone. this happened to me on 2 new installs

Strange mine just activated it with no problem. Guess I was lucky.

 

[USAFRet]

so im getting a new pc and wondered if there are any risks if i put my old sata 2 hard drive with windows 10 into a new pc

There are two different concepts with this: Operation and Licensing

Operation - It simply may not boot with the new hardware. At all.
Or it might. Only way to know is to try.
If it doesn't, you are left with doing a full reinstall.

Licensing - Upon seeing the new hardware, it will become unactivated.
Since you've not told us what OS this is, any recommendations are just speculation. Win 10 can almost certainly be moved to new hardware.
More details would lead to better suggestions.

 

[atljsf]

the license will not move if it is digital rights and it was only oem for the old mainboard and not linked to my email account

the new one, well, i need to buy another license, some day, at the moment i sort of like the watermark on gta v

"activate windows!" ok, later when i have the money