Question Win 11 upgrade

[Billm_in_Texas]

I just finished upgrading my motherboard, processor, and other things. I bought a copy of Win11 but couldn't get it to install. I had a bootable copy of my hard drive from the previous system and was able to boot from it even with new components. Wish I had known. I wouldn't have bought the new copy. Is this useless to me? I'm pretty sure I can upgrade and save programs if I'm not mistaken. Can someone steer me in the right direction? Thanks.

 

[USAFRet]

I just finished upgrading my motherboard, processor, and other things. I bought a copy of Win11 but couldn't get it to install. I had a bootable copy of my hard drive from the previous system and was able to boot from it even with new components. Wish I had known. I wouldn't have bought the new copy. Is this useless to me? I'm pretty sure I can upgrade and save programs if I'm not mistaken. Can someone steer me in the right direction? Thanks.

The drive+OS from your old system may 'boot up', but absolutely not guaranteed to work properly going forward.

For your Win 11 install?

How To - Windows 11 clean install tutorial

Windows 11 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows 11, version 23H2 or newer but can be equally applied to earlier versions which may have some basic differences in the screens you see but will largely remain similar in...

forums.tomshardware.com

 

[Billm_in_Texas]

The drive+OS from your old system may 'boot up', but absolutely not guaranteed to work properly going forward.

For your Win 11 install?

How To - Windows 11 clean install tutorial

Windows 11 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows 11, version 23H2 or newer but can be equally applied to earlier versions which may have some basic differences in the screens you see but will largely remain similar in...

forums.tomshardware.com

Thank you, I will look at it. I assume I will lose programs? I have redundant document backup and have written down all the programs I'll need back since I had originally planned a clean install.

 

[USAFRet]

Thank you, I will look at it. I assume I will lose programs? I have redundant document backup and have written down all the programs I'll need back since I had originally planned a clean install.

You lose everything on that drive.
Full wipe and reinstall.
OS, applications, everything.

 

[Billm_in_Texas]

Looking at the tutorial, it mentions creating bootable media. I have a Win 11 flash drive that I purchased for this hardware upgrade. Will that suffice?

 

[USAFRet]

Looking at the tutorial, it mentions creating bootable media. I have a Win 11 flash drive that I purchased for this hardware upgrade. Will that suffice?

Yes.