I very rarely comment online, but after viewing and following every step of your procedure. I'm overwhelmingly satisfied with the result of moving and installing my hard drive -> Windows 10 fully operational my new build. Although as suggested, I backed-up my data. It was not needed when windows smoothly booted and Wha-La everything was intact. Thank you for sharing!
basically: 1. uninstall any drivers for your original hardware 2. run sysprep (with shutdown option) 3. plug your hard drive into new computer and boot! 4. go through setup
if I am buying a new motherboard because my old one went out and I can no longer access the desktop or the display at all. when I get a new motherboard will I need to get a new hard drive or am I able to to use my old one?
If it's the same motherboard, it should work okay. It it's different, it might work but be a little screwed up (in terms of which programs will work). There's to harm in trying.
I tried to set up without uninstalling anything and there's an annoying sign that a says; "insert boot devise and press any key". I don't know what to do.
mouthtomouth33 did you figure out what to do? My motherboard shit itself. So i wasnt able to back up or delete anything. So i just bought a new one that is completely different than my old one and now im scared to plug in my old hdd
This is exactly what I'm wanting to do. My brother has given me a computer that is an upgrade as far as performance from the one I'm using now for recording. Thank you so much for making this very helpful video. Wishing you all the best!
Just did this on my new build and works like a charm! (As you also said, do not worry when windows asks you to create another account and opens with that profile. You can just login into your original one and delete the new one) thank you very much man! stay safe
This worked PERFECTLY for me! I upgraded my system from an i5-7600K, Gigabyte GA-Z270 Gaming K3 MB, GTX 1080 graphics card, and DDR4 memory. New system is Ryzen 7 7800X3D, GIGABYTE B650 AORUS ELITE AX AM5, AMD 7900XT, and DDR5 memory. Did the prework in your tutorial, moved my boot drive t my new system and booted right up. Glad you warned about it having you set up another system ID or I would have panicked. Restarted and logged into my old system ID and everything was just as I left it. I had AOMEI Backupper backup with universal restore as plan B, but didn't have to use it. THANKS!!
Man... Thank you so much!!!!! I've easily spent over $10k on music software since my last studio workstation build 10 years ago. I was absolutely terrified of losing anything. This video is absolutely career (and marriage) saving!
I just moved the SSD to new new PC, activated Windows with my key, updated BIOS and Windows. Worked like a charm. Worth mentioning that i moved from an MSI MOBO to a newer MSI MOBO
I tried so hard to try and find a video like this mainly because it was hard to word such a thing to how i want but i finally found a video that explains everything, thank you SO much. I'm planning on building a beast of a gaming PC using the new 3070 when it drops and want all my data from my old PC that I'm using right now to watch this video to be transferred over to my new rig, that's including all my games, files, folders etc. (I am not re installing 10 games that take up at least 100 GB each. And this video explains just what i need, so again thanks man. It's going to help me out a lot!
Followed the advice with great success, also changed the activation to my Microsoft account and it worked perfectly. I did need the activation code so make sure you have it. Thanks so much for your video.
I just realized I never commented here on this method... it worked so well for me. I am just rewatching as a reminder of how to do it again. Like a brain transplant for your computer, just move your OS drive to the new box and go.
Great video, I have two Photo editing programs with a lot of settings that took me months to get set up correctly. Your explanation and very precise info on your experience in changing computers is very much appreciated.
Hi. Thanks for this Video. Watched it a few times and then took the leap and used sysprep to move my SSD 1TB into a newer laptop with a larger SSD. Windows did ask me to create a new user account but didn't ask me for my Key. After a re-boot I could log in with my original user account and my desktop looked identicle. Task Bar Icons were missing but that's no biggie! I did install DriverMax which identified 20 required/updated drivers for the hardware in my newer Laptop. Well worth the 30 day sub of £8 just to get the job done. I'm going to look for a tool to uninstall the remaining redundant drivers I missed pre-sysprep. Thanks for sharing your experiences and making mine a lot easier. Respect.
life saver. worked perfectly. Had several crashes due to incompatible drivers . So i had to manually uninstall and reinstall some drivers. Thought I got rid of most of it but some were intel based . I had to uninstall and reinstall my graphics card drivers although it was the same card. that was a huge pain. Thanks a lot. Cant believe im using my pc the way it was on my old one.
Tutorial is incorrect, sysprep and OutOfBoxExperience are purely for telling your computer you want to run the windows first time start up wizard again, the way windows would behave if it was fresh "out of the box", it has nothing to do with prepping the hard drive to be removed from your current PC. All you have to do is delete any drivers that might cause conflicts like he did in this tut and make sure your windows activation is tied to your Microsoft account (as opposed to the hardware) so the activation will transfer with the hard drive and you don't have to do the dance of deactivating on one machine then activating on the other or worse yet having to enter your activation key. Windows 10 does a lot of the rest of the work for you automatically.
I'm trying to upgrade my PC, but I work at home and I absolutely need to preserve my work account. It has work tools and other such things set up which I can not lose.
I'm in the same boat :( Did the motherboard change only, and lost my digital license. I'm afraid of this video because I'm not into computers...if something gows wrong I'm not sure how to fix it.
How do I do this if my old computer is dead? I was able to take out the old HDD but I don't know how to clear out the drivers for my original hardware without my original computer working. Thank you!
Sysprep doesn't bring over your user info because it was created for cloning larger deployments back when the internet was much slower and/or creating preconfigured resale units. At least that is what we had used it for... I'm surprised activation carries over without an enterprise license. Very cool.
@@zzzomitted Display Driver Uninstaller, a great tool if you find your computer crashing because of a bad driver uninstall. Most of the time you dont have to use it but if you keep getting BSODs because of a graphics card issue it will seek out any trace of the old graphics card driver and destroy it. Has saved my computer more than once from nvidias bad installers
windows 10 is build to be plug and play in case u upgrade ur stuff just remove the drivers and anything hardware related stuff and then plug it to new pc and your good to go windows will automatically detect any new hardware u plug and update it for you some drivers need to download though (like mobo,gpu, etc) but if want to lose your windows 10 key just do this step . try it yourself and thank me later .
I built a new pc and bought a friends hard drive off him. If I put his hard drive (which has not been wiped) in my system would it boot up like his computer? Would I need to install Windows 10? I want to wipe it and start clean with downloading windows from a usb drive. I don’t have any other computer in my house so I don’t have any other desktop but I do have a laptop to install windows.
I want to do this because i dont want to reinstall my games, windows 10 and i think you could boot into safe mode, uninstall the gpu, sound, ethernet etc. drivers then boot normally and install all the correct drivers.
No problems migrating from HP 8300 SFF to HP Z230 Tower using same Graphic card and still with Intel Core i7 though it is faster. The system at startup told me I had a new CPU and I accepted it. Never had anything else lost. All other things work. Had to upgrade firmware and BIOS which is internal, due to this being a refurbished computer.
Perhaps you should update your video, you no-longer have to contact Microsoft to get your Win 10 Activated. If you use your Mircosoft Account to access your PC, it automatically links your activation key to your Microsoft Account, when you install your HDD into your new PC and it throws up the "Not Activated" error, just click on the tab that says "I changed hardware on this PC recently" add in your current user password along with your Microsoft Account email and password, then it will throw up a link showing all your Registered Keys, just select the one which corresponds to your previous build and it should activate. Heres a link that explains it further windowscentral.com/how-re-activate-windows-10-after-hardware-change
It doesn't work, if it worked before, not now. I couldn't activate W0 digital license and had to rebuild everything my old MB again to reactivate w10. New MB is there with no use since I buyed it :( It seems that I'de have to call microsoft by phone and etc.
so if ill use the same GPU and the drivers are already installed on my hdd all i have to do is move the hdd to the new computer? Bcs i dont have any other special drivers for rgb or fans.
Is it okay if you dont uninstall those programs you uninstalled around 3:00-4:00 because i still want to to use the computer, im just moving the programs and data over. If i uninstalled them the computer wouldn’t work anymore
I am a bit confused here. So i am building a new pc, and I have a 2tb hard drive I want to put into that new pc from my current one. I have a copy of windows on a usb so what happenes if i plug the hard drive in and the computer tries to install windows. (the usb has the media creation version with activate windows in the bottom right) (the hard drive has an activated version i got off amazon). Would this work, or do I need to do something speciail?
Hi guys. I had an interesting issue come up when trying to do this. Because my old machine is so old, the file structure on the SSD wasn't compatible with my new build. I had exactly the same reason for wanting to keep my install - I have video editing software, music software and photo software etc. I'm not a professional but I hope to be one day. I landed up installing to an old SSD that I reformatted. Fortunately I can copy the windows files (most importantly my wife's desktop files and mine too). For the most part I keep data on separate drives and use my SSD for running software. Anyway, the good side is that I'm going to have a clean install and Install things as I need them and I haven't lost my windows desktop, download, pictures etc. If you're interested the error message that I got when I went to install windows off a USB - " Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks" - this is the reason my new machine would not boot off my old machines SSD. If you are stuck with this issue, just google that statement and there's a video on it.
Lesson learned: UPDATE YOUR BIOS Prepped everything and when i went to launch...nothing worked. Microsoft couldnt help, so i ended up getting a activation code and downloading it onto a zip. Then when that did not work, I knew something was up. I needed to updtate my BIOS. As soon as I did. My activation key worked. I tried my ssd in my old pc again and it instantly went to start windows 10. I have no doubt it i would have updated my BIOS first, this would have worked for me.
Thank you for this great tutorial, I built a new pc and needed to transfer my hard drive over to it, and it worked great. Did anyone have to create a new user account profile? I did, as you said in the video. How do I remove it and also the drivers for my previous motherboard please? Thanks again.
ERROR : '' Sysprep was not able to validate your Windows installation . Review the log file at %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Pnther\setupact.log for details....... ( i removed old win 7 from old hdd ) pls some help !
So you can use this if you have a lot of files that you don't want to download all of them again for example I personally have a lot of games and software if I were to download it all again it would take weeks right?
I'm gonna be trying this today, installing a ASrock B350 Fatality board / Ryzen .. replacing a FX-8320 and an Asus 970 Pro Gaming. This looks like it's gonna be good help, I appreciate it. I'll comment on how it goes for me.
I followed SDT's steps and took a tip from another video.. it worked perfectly. New Ryzen 1600x , DDR4 ram opposed to ddr3, same gpu, sapphire nitro rx480 gb, ... the B350 Fatality mobo has a specific boost for that card... I don't know if it's ASRock's patent or something in bios.. but after updating it (one past the bios it shipped with) there is an option that says "Sapphire Boost" .. same 3 hard drives.. it might as well been seemless... good look SDT. Helpful vid.
I can't remember now if anything with the activation changed...I wanna say it wasn't, I'm about 95% sure on that. There has been a major Win 10 update since I swapped them out.
Quick question guys: I switched components with the process explained in your video. Everything works except my LAN (sometimes). It randomly disconnects & connects again after a while. Has anyone experienced something similar / knows how to fix it?
Can anyone please confirm that this tutorial still works today or not?. There's certainly no option to call Microsoft anymore about activation issues as far as I'm aware
i did this and now chrome will not work so i put it back in the old pc and chrome works? in the new pc chrome tries to open but all i get is a black screen no matter what size i make that screen it is black. any ideas? thanks
Not sure if you or anyone could answer this, but all of my files in Documents and Downloads (everything in the /User/myprofile) were erased. I followed everything except of course backing up everything and creating a dummy account to log in, hoping that logging in with my microsoft account would be fine. Lo and behold, my programs were there, but my folders with documents were gone. I tried using WinDirStat to find them, but couldn't. Is there a way to restore the files?
I’ve moved my ssd to my new computer before I did all of this so I was wondering if I did the same thing but instead of moving it I could power the pc on again?
Just go to system registry and unregister the board by setting the value from 1 to 0 Then when you set your new board in go back to registry and set them back to 1
I’m planning on doing the change this weekend. For this comment, do you mean all those personal files will be saved and moved to the “new” pc and be in the file path user/username/windows.old
@@nolansullivan9196 yeah, also all the installed programs did not work after this procedure, I think I saw another process that only errased drivers and on the new pc only update them and that's faster and programs and files will keep original place and work.
Sir! I have a big problem...it all started when i removed my hardware form my old pc(old components) to my new one(with new components)with windows 10 installed.I succeded in opening windows 10 on the new Pc but unfortunatly he is crashing sometimes (Error Your Pc ran into a problem,we need to restart and we are collecting errors) and then after the restart (20,30,150 minutes)he is crashing again
Hard Drive swapped, windows activated through Troubleshooter, but cannot find the old Profile. The data is still there because the hard drive is almost full, but I cannot see the old profile data.
Ok,so i exactly did as mentioned in the video. Now when I installed the HDD into my new PC it won't boot up properly. It would ask me to select language, timezone and other stuff. Then it blacks out and the process starts again. Any help?
@Luca Balaj I did not get it from the cmd, but I got it with a software called SoftKey Revealer (scans my pc). You think the key is legit? (BTW thx for helping a noob:)
I wonder if this will work if you're unable to cleanup the drivers etc and run sysprep on the old machine. My Intel NUC died and I'm wanting to move my M.2 Internal SSD with Win10 to an ASRock NUC Box with very similar but not identical hardware. I'll give it a try and post my experience but if anyone has done something similar I'd greatly appreciate benefitting from your experience! Thanks in advance for any comments you may care to share.
So i followed your steps to prep for a new build, but my new computer's bios can't boot from the ssd. It just sits in there and new ssd is 1st priory in boot prefer. Not sure what to do? Am I missing a simple step to start in bios? Send help, thanks!
I got a straight swap from 2 identical dell optiplex models..was just going load the old drive via a usb to sata box. Now thinking i might change the boot order in bios, see what happens?? The old ones got an activated win10, the new one doesn’t. Anyone know if you can get win10 from an old computer and use it on a new machine. The old ones not going to be used. It would suck to have to pay for a new win10 activation key as it would cost more than the new computer. I only use pc for music production..just got done putting in the wifi card, drivers for my interface, Reaper..gonna take forever..so yeah..so much easier swapping the drive..thats why i searched up this vid..cheers for the info
my old PC came with Windows 8 preinstalled which was then later upgraded to Windows 10, i then installed a new SSD on that machine, the question is, can i move this SSD to my new built computer with new motherboard in it ? ( i dont need the old motherboard ), thanks
Going from an HP rebuilt to a custom build, I assume I should uninstall all HP drivers, software etc....such as "HP Jumpstart Launch" or "HP audio switch". I'll update soon how it goes!
I currently have my windows 10 and everything else installed on a HDD. I am changing out my CPU and motherboard, I want to use this oppertunity to use a SSD as the bootdrive. However, I'd like to keep all my other stuff on my current HDD and reuse the HDD. Does anybody know if that is at all posible?
thats hard. from what i understand, you could just clone your current HDD (with win and everything) on this SSD and use this one, that's pretty easy (there are free programs for that, i used "minitool shadowmaker"). if that's done, you have two hard drives with the exact same information. why keeping it on HDD then? you now have EVERYTHING on a SSD, preferably with a high amount of storage. so, if you want things separated, just keep all programs on the SSD. delete everything on the old HDD and you can use this one for Pictures, maybe games, samples, movies etc. (everything that doesn't really profit from an SSD)
@@grimbea_jow I ended up taking it into a shop near me, guy had it up and running in 30 minutes if that. It's worth than trying to convert it over with half ass explanations on yt
@@enrolledagent1246 did your mobo die cus of this video? Because you have to do it on a clean working pc then remove it do your repairs and then click it back in or did you follow it to the T? Just so I know cus I'm doing some work for a pal dont. want to mess it up for him I did see you sent it to a shop so ye it's good yours is working now Stay safe merry Christmas
Didn't work for me. I followed all the steps but once I connect the drive to my new PC all I get is the bios, and from there, it says that there are no bootable devices. :(
I've read that since W10 and esp Windows 11 that it's now more than ever easier to just pop the old drive into the new PC and have it pick up where you left off as it will resolve driver/mobo/processor conflicts and update them all accordingly. Can you do a video on how this migration is done on Windows 11?
Yo can anyone help me: i did all the steps and plugged in everything correctly in the new build. However the bios recognizes the ssd drive but i cant use it as a bootable device. When i try to boot in legacy mode it just says that there is no bootable device...
Now with the old motherboard, i'm still using a different hard drive with windows on it. Every time i boot windows its asking me to choose an operating system.I don't have any other hard drives in it. How do i get rid of that?
I very rarely comment online, but after viewing and following every step of your procedure. I'm overwhelmingly satisfied with the result of moving and installing my hard drive -> Windows 10 fully operational my new build. Although as suggested, I backed-up my data. It was not needed when windows smoothly booted and Wha-La everything was intact. Thank you for sharing!
This will not delete my windows right? PLS REPLY
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@@stefanilievskigaming6478 idk
did it?
Do you set up the new pc the way you would normally
basically:
1. uninstall any drivers for your original hardware
2. run sysprep (with shutdown option)
3. plug your hard drive into new computer and boot!
4. go through setup
You got it 👍
my new pc still want to boot up with the HDD inside
@@SoundDesignTutorials Can i skip to step 3 then go into blue screen of death and from there choose to install it from scratch?
Tim 72 i think
If I have windows installed on my ssd do I put that in instead and boot up?
Great guide! It went super smoothly. The hardest part was adding all the application to the task bar.
I have swapped a hard drive without doing anything before and it still worked, but it’s risky if you want to keep all the programs, some may be lost.
Sound Design Tutorials I everything that needed to be done but the thing is my new computer is already set up so how do I have my hard drive working
if I am buying a new motherboard because my old one went out and I can no longer access the desktop or the display at all. when I get a new motherboard will I need to get a new hard drive or am I able to to use my old one?
If it's the same motherboard, it should work okay. It it's different, it might work but be a little screwed up (in terms of which programs will work). There's to harm in trying.
I tried to set up without uninstalling anything and there's an annoying sign that a says; "insert boot devise and press any key". I don't know what to do.
mouthtomouth33 did you figure out what to do? My motherboard shit itself. So i wasnt able to back up or delete anything. So i just bought a new one that is completely different than my old one and now im scared to plug in my old hdd
You sir,, are a legend. This has saved so much hassle! Thank you
Great tutorial. All of the others involved mirrors, this is exactly what I needed. Thanks!
This is exactly what I'm wanting to do. My brother has given me a computer that is an upgrade as far as performance from the one I'm using now for recording. Thank you so much for making this very helpful video. Wishing you all the best!
Just did this on my new build and works like a charm!
(As you also said, do not worry when windows asks you to create another account and opens with that profile. You can just login into your original one and delete the new one)
thank you very much man! stay safe
This worked PERFECTLY for me! I upgraded my system from an i5-7600K, Gigabyte GA-Z270 Gaming K3 MB, GTX 1080 graphics card, and DDR4 memory. New system is Ryzen 7 7800X3D, GIGABYTE B650 AORUS ELITE AX AM5, AMD 7900XT, and DDR5 memory. Did the prework in your tutorial, moved my boot drive t my new system and booted right up. Glad you warned about it having you set up another system ID or I would have panicked. Restarted and logged into my old system ID and everything was just as I left it. I had AOMEI Backupper backup with universal restore as plan B, but didn't have to use it. THANKS!!
Man... Thank you so much!!!!! I've easily spent over $10k on music software since my last studio workstation build 10 years ago. I was absolutely terrified of losing anything. This video is absolutely career (and marriage) saving!
ElectronGalaxyLP?
As far as I can tell this is the only Tutorial for this on RUclips. All the others tell you how to clone your drive, not how to move it around!
Thank you very! I'm making a new build and was hoping I didn't have to. Thank you for saving me so much time!
I just moved the SSD to new new PC, activated Windows with my key, updated BIOS and Windows. Worked like a charm.
Worth mentioning that i moved from an MSI MOBO to a newer MSI MOBO
I tried so hard to try and find a video like this mainly because it was hard to word such a thing to how i want but i finally found a video that explains everything, thank you SO much. I'm planning on building a beast of a gaming PC using the new 3070 when it drops and want all my data from my old PC that I'm using right now to watch this video to be transferred over to my new rig, that's including all my games, files, folders etc. (I am not re installing 10 games that take up at least 100 GB each. And this video explains just what i need, so again thanks man. It's going to help me out a lot!
Did you ever get that RTX 3070?
Yes same
Followed the advice with great success, also changed the activation to my Microsoft account and it worked perfectly. I did need the activation code so make sure you have it. Thanks so much for your video.
I just realized I never commented here on this method... it worked so well for me. I am just rewatching as a reminder of how to do it again. Like a brain transplant for your computer, just move your OS drive to the new box and go.
Been looking for a tutorial like this for a while, well explained and easy to follow, helped me a lot. Thanks :)
this is the best tut on this i have found so far
Great video, I have two Photo editing programs with a lot of settings that took me months to get set up correctly. Your explanation and very precise info on your experience in changing computers is very much appreciated.
Did it worked?
Hi. Thanks for this Video. Watched it a few times and then took the leap and used sysprep to move my SSD 1TB into a newer laptop with a larger SSD. Windows did ask me to create a new user account but didn't ask me for my Key. After a re-boot I could log in with my original user account and my desktop looked identicle. Task Bar Icons were missing but that's no biggie!
I did install DriverMax which identified 20 required/updated drivers for the hardware in my newer Laptop. Well worth the 30 day sub of £8 just to get the job done. I'm going to look for a tool to uninstall the remaining redundant drivers I missed pre-sysprep.
Thanks for sharing your experiences and making mine a lot easier. Respect.
life saver. worked perfectly. Had several crashes due to incompatible drivers . So i had to manually uninstall and reinstall some drivers. Thought I got rid of most of it but some were intel based . I had to uninstall and reinstall my graphics card drivers although it was the same card. that was a huge pain. Thanks a lot. Cant believe im using my pc the way it was on my old one.
Thanks for this video, it's just the info I needed for when I build a new PC later this year. Much appreciated.
Tutorial is incorrect, sysprep and OutOfBoxExperience are purely for telling your computer you want to run the windows first time start up wizard again, the way windows would behave if it was fresh "out of the box", it has nothing to do with prepping the hard drive to be removed from your current PC. All you have to do is delete any drivers that might cause conflicts like he did in this tut and make sure your windows activation is tied to your Microsoft account (as opposed to the hardware) so the activation will transfer with the hard drive and you don't have to do the dance of deactivating on one machine then activating on the other or worse yet having to enter your activation key. Windows 10 does a lot of the rest of the work for you automatically.
My MOBO failed but my Win 7 Pro SSD is fine. I tried booting it from a new PC but it fails. Any suggestions?
Just came here for the exact reason, tons of plugins on fl studio
i lost all my flps,im so fucked 15 years work
@@1988kuriakos nice
Do a video of how to “delete the new user name that it makes you create when installing the Hdd in the new computer”.
I like your method in preparing the hard drives for the newer machine! Nicely done! 😊
Thank you for a great explanation, need to try this method on a new computer I'm getting as my CPU in my old one has just died. Hoping for the best.
I'm trying to upgrade my PC, but I work at home and I absolutely need to preserve my work account. It has work tools and other such things set up which I can not lose.
Is it a account? (Logged into a app or a internet website) or is it something you downloaded?
@@hjarsen7296 it's a windows account
I'm in the same boat :(
Did the motherboard change only, and lost my digital license.
I'm afraid of this video because I'm not into computers...if something gows wrong I'm not sure how to fix it.
How do I do this if my old computer is dead? I was able to take out the old HDD but I don't know how to clear out the drivers for my original hardware without my original computer working. Thank you!
Yep same boat
you need to put it in a working pc an do this steps
It asks you to create a new Windows user because sysprep makes your system go into OOBE (Out of Box Experience) a.k.a. first boot of the OS ever.
Sysprep doesn't bring over your user info because it was created for cloning larger deployments back when the internet was much slower and/or creating preconfigured resale units. At least that is what we had used it for... I'm surprised activation carries over without an enterprise license. Very cool.
im changing motherboard cpu ram and power suply and dont want to by a new key will this work for me
mason fuckcancer did you buy oem windows 10?
What if all drivers from old pc have not been deleted? What can it cause?
Should I keep my graphics card drivers. I’m going to be using the same graphics card.
WildWill yes
@@zzzomitted reinstalling video drivers is a pretty painless process nowadays, just uninstall and reinstall using ddu or some other tool
@@zzzomitted Display Driver Uninstaller, a great tool if you find your computer crashing because of a bad driver uninstall. Most of the time you dont have to use it but if you keep getting BSODs because of a graphics card issue it will seek out any trace of the old graphics card driver and destroy it. Has saved my computer more than once from nvidias bad installers
this is so helpful. Gamer tutorials don't ever understand why people would need to keep their windows 10 for music data and softwares
windows 10 is build to be plug and play in case u upgrade ur stuff just remove the drivers and anything hardware related stuff and then plug it to new pc and your good to go windows will automatically detect any new hardware u plug and update it for you some drivers need to download though (like mobo,gpu, etc)
but if want to lose your windows 10 key just do this step .
try it yourself and thank me later .
I built a new pc and bought a friends hard drive off him. If I put his hard drive (which has not been wiped) in my system would it boot up like his computer? Would I need to install Windows 10? I want to wipe it and start clean with downloading windows from a usb drive. I don’t have any other computer in my house so I don’t have any other desktop but I do have a laptop to install windows.
I want to do this because i dont want to reinstall my games, windows 10 and i think you could boot into safe mode, uninstall the gpu, sound, ethernet etc. drivers then boot normally and install all the correct drivers.
No problems migrating from HP 8300 SFF to HP Z230 Tower using same Graphic card and still with Intel Core i7 though it is faster. The system at startup told me I had a new CPU and I accepted it. Never had anything else lost. All other things work. Had to upgrade firmware and BIOS which is internal, due to this being a refurbished computer.
Perhaps you should update your video, you no-longer have to contact Microsoft to get your Win 10 Activated. If you use your Mircosoft Account to access your PC, it automatically links your activation key to your Microsoft Account, when you install your HDD into your new PC and it throws up the "Not Activated" error, just click on the tab that says "I changed hardware on this PC recently" add in your current user password along with your Microsoft Account email and password, then it will throw up a link showing all your Registered Keys, just select the one which corresponds to your previous build and it should activate. Heres a link that explains it further windowscentral.com/how-re-activate-windows-10-after-hardware-change
thanks for the heads up
It doesn't work, if it worked before, not now.
I couldn't activate W0 digital license and had to rebuild everything my old MB again to reactivate w10.
New MB is there with no use since I buyed it :(
It seems that I'de have to call microsoft by phone and etc.
so if ill use the same GPU and the drivers are already installed on my hdd all i have to do is move the hdd to the new computer? Bcs i dont have any other special drivers for rgb or fans.
Does it keep windows ten on the drive?
If I have windows 10 pro on my computer and move my drive to my laptop is there a way to revert to windows 10 home
Is it okay if you dont uninstall those programs you uninstalled around 3:00-4:00 because i still want to to use the computer, im just moving the programs and data over. If i uninstalled them the computer wouldn’t work anymore
I am a bit confused here. So i am building a new pc, and I have a 2tb hard drive I want to put into that new pc from my current one. I have a copy of windows on a usb so what happenes if i plug the hard drive in and the computer tries to install windows. (the usb has the media creation version with activate windows in the bottom right) (the hard drive has an activated version i got off amazon). Would this work, or do I need to do something speciail?
One sad thing is if you use Nvidia shadow play to record videos make sure to put them on a flash drive because if you do his you will loose them
Mr.Potato unfortunately any pictures videos/documents need to be backed up before the move.
Hi guys. I had an interesting issue come up when trying to do this. Because my old machine is so old, the file structure on the SSD wasn't compatible with my new build. I had exactly the same reason for wanting to keep my install - I have video editing software, music software and photo software etc. I'm not a professional but I hope to be one day. I landed up installing to an old SSD that I reformatted. Fortunately I can copy the windows files (most importantly my wife's desktop files and mine too). For the most part I keep data on separate drives and use my SSD for running software. Anyway, the good side is that I'm going to have a clean install and Install things as I need them and I haven't lost my windows desktop, download, pictures etc.
If you're interested the error message that I got when I went to install windows off a USB - " Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks" - this is the reason my new machine would not boot off my old machines SSD.
If you are stuck with this issue, just google that statement and there's a video on it.
Lesson learned: UPDATE YOUR BIOS
Prepped everything and when i went to launch...nothing worked. Microsoft couldnt help, so i ended up getting a activation code and downloading it onto a zip. Then when that did not work, I knew something was up. I needed to updtate my BIOS. As soon as I did. My activation key worked. I tried my ssd in my old pc again and it instantly went to start windows 10. I have no doubt it i would have updated my BIOS first, this would have worked for me.
Good advice.. You should always update your bios regularly, be it on a new build or existing one 👌
hey man all you had to say was sysprep haha. appreciate your insight, looking forward to migrating once all my new components are in
if i have a ssd with only windows on it, how would i put my old hdd that also has windows on it?
What if your basically just moving everything to a new motherboard and case
It will be fine just use sysprep
Thank you for this great tutorial, I built a new pc and needed to transfer my hard drive over to it, and it worked great.
Did anyone have to create a new user account profile? I did, as you said in the video. How do I remove it and also the drivers for my previous motherboard please? Thanks again.
Actually worked like a charm. Thank you kindly for this.
ERROR : '' Sysprep was not able to validate your Windows installation . Review the log file at %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Pnther\setupact.log for details....... ( i removed old win 7 from old hdd ) pls some help !
Did he say "This is fucks." at the beginning? lol
So you can use this if you have a lot of files that you don't want to download all of them again for example I personally have a lot of games and software if I were to download it all again it would take weeks right?
I'm gonna be trying this today, installing a ASrock B350 Fatality board / Ryzen .. replacing a FX-8320 and an Asus 970 Pro Gaming. This looks like it's gonna be good help, I appreciate it. I'll comment on how it goes for me.
How’d it go?
I followed SDT's steps and took a tip from another video.. it worked perfectly. New Ryzen 1600x , DDR4 ram opposed to ddr3, same gpu, sapphire nitro rx480 gb, ... the B350 Fatality mobo has a specific boost for that card... I don't know if it's ASRock's patent or something in bios.. but after updating it (one past the bios it shipped with) there is an option that says "Sapphire Boost" .. same 3 hard drives.. it might as well been seemless... good look SDT. Helpful vid.
Coincidence dude, I have the same motb and cpu
I can't remember now if anything with the activation changed...I wanna say it wasn't, I'm about 95% sure on that. There has been a major Win 10 update since I swapped them out.
what if I want to plug in the hard drives from the new computer to the old one? i believe i should follow these same steps correct?
Probably the same. See it as moving the hard drive to "another computer" new or old
Quick question guys:
I switched components with the process explained in your video. Everything works except my LAN (sometimes). It randomly disconnects & connects again after a while.
Has anyone experienced something similar / knows how to fix it?
Can anyone please confirm that this tutorial still works today or not?. There's certainly no option to call Microsoft anymore about activation issues as far as I'm aware
i did this and now chrome will not work so i put it back in the old pc and chrome works? in the new pc chrome tries to open but all i get is a black screen no matter what size i make that screen it is black. any ideas? thanks
When you do this, can you swap all your drives? for example I have 2 HDD and 1 SSD, can I put them all in the new pc after doing this? Thanks
Yea, just take note of the Drive letters and when you put it in the new PC reasign the same letters so that all the Apps can find that path.
Not sure if you or anyone could answer this, but all of my files in Documents and Downloads (everything in the /User/myprofile) were erased. I followed everything except of course backing up everything and creating a dummy account to log in, hoping that logging in with my microsoft account would be fine. Lo and behold, my programs were there, but my folders with documents were gone. I tried using WinDirStat to find them, but couldn't. Is there a way to restore the files?
I’ve moved my ssd to my new computer before I did all of this so I was wondering if I did the same thing but instead of moving it I could power the pc on again?
Just go to system registry and unregister the board by setting the value from 1 to 0
Then when you set your new board in go back to registry and set them back to 1
And this is for? Sorry for the inconvenience
BEWARE! personal files (pictures, documents, etc) will be on Windows.old folder under User/username
I’m planning on doing the change this weekend. For this comment, do you mean all those personal files will be saved and moved to the “new” pc and be in the file path user/username/windows.old
@@nolansullivan9196 yeah, also all the installed programs did not work after this procedure, I think I saw another process that only errased drivers and on the new pc only update them and that's faster and programs and files will keep original place and work.
Sir! I have a big problem...it all started when i removed my hardware form my old pc(old components) to my new one(with new components)with windows 10 installed.I succeded in opening windows 10 on the new Pc but unfortunatly he is crashing sometimes (Error Your Pc ran into a problem,we need to restart and we are collecting errors) and then after the restart (20,30,150 minutes)he is crashing again
So if the old windows 10 license transfers over to the new pc build does it get removed from the old one? Dont want any weird duplicate license.
Hard Drive swapped, windows activated through Troubleshooter, but cannot find the old Profile. The data is still there because the hard drive is almost full, but I cannot see the old profile data.
Ok,so i exactly did as mentioned in the video. Now when I installed the HDD into my new PC it won't boot up properly. It would ask me to select language, timezone and other stuff. Then it blacks out and the process starts again. Any help?
I am going to upgrade my motherboard soon. Will this work?
I have same question
@classic duck thanks
@classic duck oh ok i guess ill stil try
@Luca Balaj I have win 10 on my old pv will I lose my licence?
@Luca Balaj I did not get it from the cmd, but I got it with a software called SoftKey Revealer (scans my pc). You think the key is legit? (BTW thx for helping a noob:)
What if I haven’t done anything thing and don’t have another computer to do it will it be fine?
Thanks, operating systems are ridiculously expensive. They should be like 20 bucks a piece.
Check Opium Pulse. Cheap OS there
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you buy win 10 tf it doesnt even need to be purchased for it to be functional
Didn't work for me. Trying to switch ssd from Dell 140g studio to Dell optiplex micro 3020m and the tv is not even recognizing the micro is on. Help!
Never seen this method, thank you for sharing.
I wonder if this will work if you're unable to cleanup the drivers etc and run sysprep on the old machine. My Intel NUC died and I'm wanting to move my M.2 Internal SSD with Win10 to an ASRock NUC Box with very similar but not identical hardware. I'll give it a try and post my experience but if anyone has done something similar I'd greatly appreciate benefitting from your experience! Thanks in advance for any comments you may care to share.
So i followed your steps to prep for a new build, but my new computer's bios can't boot from the ssd. It just sits in there and new ssd is 1st priory in boot prefer. Not sure what to do? Am I missing a simple step to start in bios? Send help, thanks!
welcome back its fucks
lmaooo thats what i thought to
So, will I be able to follow these steps, upgrade my motherboard and cpu and run a setup without losing my data? (It’s backed up mostly anyways)
Yep, just back up anything you don't want to loose, pics, docs, vids etc
I got a straight swap from 2 identical dell optiplex models..was just going load the old drive via a usb to sata box. Now thinking i might change the boot order in bios, see what happens?? The old ones got an activated win10, the new one doesn’t. Anyone know if you can get win10 from an old computer and use it on a new machine. The old ones not going to be used. It would suck to have to pay for a new win10 activation key as it would cost more than the new computer. I only use pc for music production..just got done putting in the wifi card, drivers for my interface, Reaper..gonna take forever..so yeah..so much easier swapping the drive..thats why i searched up this vid..cheers for the info
should i generalize the sysprep or not?
my old PC came with Windows 8 preinstalled which was then later upgraded to Windows 10, i then installed a new SSD on that machine, the question is, can i move this SSD to my new built computer with new motherboard in it ? ( i dont need the old motherboard ), thanks
I build a new system then moved my old ssd to the new system and its showing "reboot and select proper boot media" whar should i do
WORKED PERFECTLY THANK YOU!!
Really appreciate you showing us the step by step process of putting and setting up your hard drive in the new comput-- oh wait.
Thanks for a great, detailed video tutorial! Keep up the good work!
Going from an HP rebuilt to a custom build, I assume I should uninstall all HP drivers, software etc....such as "HP Jumpstart Launch" or "HP audio switch". I'll update soon how it goes!
Went to boot and windows gave me a stopcode "machine check exception"
The oobe can be bypassed easily by creating a provisioning package using Windows Image Configuration Designer that comes with the adk.
I currently have my windows 10 and everything else installed on a HDD. I am changing out my CPU and motherboard, I want to use this oppertunity to use a SSD as the bootdrive. However, I'd like to keep all my other stuff on my current HDD and reuse the HDD. Does anybody know if that is at all posible?
thats hard.
from what i understand, you could just clone your current HDD (with win and everything) on this SSD and use this one, that's pretty easy (there are free programs for that, i used "minitool shadowmaker").
if that's done, you have two hard drives with the exact same information. why keeping it on HDD then? you now have EVERYTHING on a SSD, preferably with a high amount of storage.
so, if you want things separated, just keep all programs on the SSD. delete everything on the old HDD and you can use this one for Pictures, maybe games, samples, movies etc. (everything that doesn't really profit from an SSD)
This is a lifesaver. Thank you.
so my mobo died and couldnt do any of these things, how do i active it on a all new mobo and cpu
same happened to me, I would be grateful if anyone answer this
@@grimbea_jow I ended up taking it into a shop near me, guy had it up and running in 30 minutes if that. It's worth than trying to convert it over with half ass explanations on yt
@@enrolledagent1246 did your mobo die cus of this video? Because you have to do it on a clean working pc then remove it do your repairs and then click it back in or did you follow it to the T? Just so I know cus I'm doing some work for a pal dont. want to mess it up for him I did see you sent it to a shop so ye it's good yours is working now
Stay safe merry Christmas
@@pivottech8881 mobo died randomly on me, nothing to do with videos
Didn't work for me. I followed all the steps but once I connect the drive to my new PC all I get is the bios, and from there, it says that there are no bootable devices. :(
also possible if I once owned a Win7 license but then Upgraded to the free Win10 when it was possible?
I've read that since W10 and esp Windows 11 that it's now more than ever easier to just pop the old drive into the new PC and have it pick up where you left off as it will resolve driver/mobo/processor conflicts and update them all accordingly. Can you do a video on how this migration is done on Windows 11?
Yo can anyone help me: i did all the steps and plugged in everything correctly in the new build. However the bios recognizes the ssd drive but i cant use it as a bootable device. When i try to boot in legacy mode it just says that there is no bootable device...
If all I’m doing is buying a new motherboard do I have to uninstall drivers ?
Welcome back. This is Focks...LOL
how about from windows 7
Nice the only video that i find on youtub to learn hou to do this
Now with the old motherboard, i'm still using a different hard drive with windows on it. Every time i boot windows its asking me to choose an operating system.I don't have any other hard drives in it. How do i get rid of that?