Using Ryzen 3 with Windows Vista (going to upgrade)

[oacksonjowens]

I have an old hard drive with windows vista on it and am planning on putting it in a system im building with the Ryzen 3 2200g. I checked the hard drive and it works fine, but I'm not sure if Ryzen will be compatible with it. I'm not very literate on what's compatible with what.

 

[vapour]

[strike]should be fine, what motherboard is it?
I am still running win7 with my Ryzen 1600.
potential build components and budget?[/strike]

 

[oacksonjowens]

should be fine, what motherboard is it?
I am still running win7 with my Ryzen 1600.
potential build components and budget?

 

[oacksonjowens]

Running it with the MSI B350M Mortar. 2X4 3000Mhz RAM. 180 GB hard drive and a 120 GB SSD.

 

[clarkjd]

I have an old hard drive with windows vista on it and am planning on putting it in a system im building with the Ryzen 3 2200g. I checked the hard drive and it works fine, but I'm not sure if Ryzen will be compatible with it. I'm not very literate on what's compatible with what.

Where you may have issues, is that the Vista installation has all the old motherboard chipset drivers already installed, These drivers may not be compatible with the motherboard for your Ryzen build. When changing motherboards, a clean install of Windows is recommended. There may also be Windows licenseing issues depending on if it is a retail or OEM version of Vista.

 

[vapour]

[strike]Yes you still can, you can see motherboard website has win8 support. If your win8 is retail instead of oem, just reinstall.[/strike]

 

[vapour]

[strike]If it is oem, normally a call to Intel to explain you are changing hardware, they may give you a win 10 key instead. Worst scenario is to install win 10 inactivated.[/strike]

 

[clarkjd]

Yes you still can, you can see motherboard website has win8 support. If your win8 is retail instead of oem, just reinstall.

OP has Vista, not Win8.

 

[USAFRet]

It would need a full reinstall anyway. You can't just slap an old drive with Vista on it into a new Ryzen system and expect it to "just work".

And whatever license is associated with that Vista install will almost certainly be null and void with all new hardware.

 

[USAFRet]

If it is oem, normally a call to Intel to explain you are changing hardware, they may give you a win 10 key instead. Worst scenario is to install win 10 inactivated.

Why would they give him a Win 10 license? There was never any free upgrade from Vista to Win 10.

 

[Rogue Leader]

should be fine, what motherboard is it?
I am still running win7 with my Ryzen 1600.
potential build components and budget?

Vista is not Windows 7

Yes you still can, you can see motherboard website has win8 support. If your win8 is retail instead of oem, just reinstall.

Vista is NOT Win 8 either

If it is oem, normally a call to Intel to explain you are changing hardware, they may give you a win 10 key instead. Worst scenario is to install win 10 inactivated.

There was never an update path from Vista to 10. MS only provided it from 7 or 8. Microsoft... not Intel.

Didn't we have this discussion about giving advice when you don't actually know the answer? Maybe let this one go and let USAFRet or anyone else handle it. Thanks.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Not saying it must provide, really depending on the customer service. Heard one friend got lucky and got a win 10 license from XP... so I said “may”. First check if it is oem or retail. If retail, you can extract key and reinstall.

Not Windows Vista on Ryzen

Again let it go.

 

[vapour]

@ all above, please forgive my brain fart.

 

[King_V]

Don't bother migrating the hard drive until you're ready to put Windows 10 on it. It's not going to work. As mentioned by others, the OS is set up with all the drivers, etc., of your old hardware.

Even with more modern Windows OSes, it's questionable whether the system would be able to sort itself out.

With Vista, I'm inclined to say "not a chance."

Do a clean install for the new system.

 

[mossberg]

@ all above, please forgive my brain fart.

I think your disclaimer needs to be in a bigger font, so you can read it, and remind yourself before you post.


There is 0 Vista support for Ryzen. Win 7 originally wasn't even supposed to work with it. It looks like AMD did the legwork on that side, though, driver wise.

OP, download windows 10 from Microsoft. Use their media creation tool to make a bootable USB drive, using at least an 8gb drive. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Install Win 10 onto the new system. If you cannot afford a license now, you can run it unlicensed until you can get a legit key, from a retailer like Newegg. You only lose customization options, and you get an annoying watermark, in the bottom right, telling you to activate. It will work, and update, otherwise.