Question Trying to boot old SSD with Windows 10 on a new system that has Windows 11 but won't boot.

[tazman2018]

I'm trying to boot my old SSD which has Windows 10 on it to a new system which has had Windows 11 installed which is NVME.

As the old SSD still works on my old system it won't boot on this system.

I rearranged the boot order in BIOS but still no luck shows up with no operating system when I remove all over drives and just leave the old SSD.

It only recognises it as storage, I checked disk management and my old drive (MBR) doesn't show EFI files as it does for the Windows 11(GPT) could this be the problem?

Also I checked in system configuration to see if it shows in BOOT there but nothing only windows 11.

The motherboard is HP.

 

[kanewolf]

I'm trying to boot my old SSD which has Windows 10 on it to a new system which has had Windows 11 installed which is NVME.

As the old SSD still works on my old system it won't boot on this system.

I rearranged the boot order in BIOS but still no luck shows up with no operating system when I remove all over drives and just leave the old SSD.

It only recognises it as storage, I checked disk management and my old drive (MBR) doesn't show EFI files as it does for the Windows 11(GPT) could this be the problem?

Also I checked in system configuration to see if it shows in BOOT there but nothing only windows 11.

The motherboard is HP.

Windows is NOT a portable operating system. You are changing the entire hardware baseline and expecting the OS to boot. That is just not the way Windows works. You have drivers loaded for the specific hardware in your previous system and expecting it to work with different hardware. NOPE.

 

[tazman2018]

Windows is NOT a portable operating system. You are changing the entire hardware baseline and expecting the OS to boot. That is just not the way Windows works. You have drivers loaded for the specific hardware in your previous system and expecting it to work with different hardware. NOPE.

Suggestions?

 

[kanewolf]

Suggestions?

There is no magic way to get a Windows installation to boot on different hardware.

Why do you say "had Windows 11" in your original post ? The Win 11 PC doesn't boot from the properly installed OS ?

 

[tazman2018]

There is no magic way to get a Windows installation to boot on different hardware.

Why do you say "had Windows 11" in your original post ? The Win 11 PC doesn't boot from the properly installed OS ?

No it does that’s the only way it boots.

As in I took it off to put old SSD.

what bout dual booting?

 

[kanewolf]

No it does that’s the only way it boots.

As in I took it off to put old SSD.

what bout dual booting?

No. Boot Win 11. Use the old SSD as a data drive. Retrieve anything you need off of it.

 

[USAFRet]

Suggestions?

Embrace the pain, and do a full OS install in the new system.

 

[USAFRet]

what bout dual booting?

Thats not what dual booting is or the way it works.