[SOLVED] Transferring old hard drive onto a new motherboard

[fuego1289]

I'm still quite new to pc builds. I am planning to wipe my ssd and reinstall windows 10 onto my new motherboard. My question is, can I simply just connect my old hard drive onto the new motherboard or is there additional steps that I need to follow, besides backing up my old hard drive? Will this corrupt my hard drive also?

 

[jay32267]

I'm still quite new to pc builds. I am planning to wipe my ssd and reinstall windows 10 onto my new motherboard. My question is, can I simply just connect my old hard drive onto the new motherboard or is there additional steps that I need to follow, besides backing up my old hard drive? Will this corrupt my hard drive also?

Just connect it up with the power off.
When you go to do the Windows install...Windows Installer will give you the option of formatting the drive.
Also, when you go to do the install....only have that one drive connected.

 

[fuego1289]

Just connect it up with the power off.
When you go to do the Windows install...Windows Installer will give you the option of formatting the drive.
Also, when you go to do the install....only have that one drive connected.

Thank you!

 

[USAFRet]

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Connect any other drives later.

 

[hang-the-9]

The above post may be confusing, sounds like you have two drives correct? The one you will be installing Windows on should be the one that is connected first, do the Windows setup on it. Once that is finished connect the secondary drive.

 

[Turtle Rig]

I'm still quite new to pc builds. I am planning to wipe my ssd and reinstall windows 10 onto my new motherboard. My question is, can I simply just connect my old hard drive onto the new motherboard or is there additional steps that I need to follow, besides backing up my old hard drive? Will this corrupt my hard drive also?

Just to let you know you can connect the hard drive or SSD into the new build and WIndows 10 will boot up and detect all the drivers and remove old drivers from old system. So there is no need to format and do a clean Windows 10 install. Yes this works I have done it before, and got my cousin a AMD rig coming from a Core 2 Quad build and he connected the SSD to the build I got for him and WIndows booted right up and he hasn't had a single crash or freeze or any issues. Save yourself the trouble of configuring Windows all over again settings things up install software configuring that install MS apps and reinstall games and just connect it and watch it boot right into WIndows 10. Once again this will only work with Windows 10 and this is something Linus does all the time in his hardware reviews to save time. It simply works and if someone says other wise they obviously have not tried it before. Good Luck 🙉👨🏽‍🦲

 

[USAFRet]

Just to let you know you can connect the hard drive or SSD into the new build and WIndows 10 will boot up and detect all the drivers and remove old drivers from old system. So there is no need to format and do a clean Windows 10 install.

Sorry, but that is absolutely NOT guaranteed to work.

Often it does, often it fails.

Win 10 is better than previous versions, but by no means 100% guaranteed to work like that. Especially as we do not know the parts involved, old and new.