Goodmorning, good midday and good evening
Its soon Christmas which means new upgrades and more toys for the pc
BG info
Currently running
1 x 250GB SSD, split in 2, 110GB for Windows OS & 120GB for games
1 x 1TB regular HDD, split in 2, 350GB for games & 650GB (mostly unused) for other programs and junk
Im going to "upgrade", pretty much build a new pc with this, since everything else on my machine is of age
1x INTEL CORE I7 8700K / 3.7 GHZ COFFEE LAKE PROCESSOR
1x ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-H GAMING (or similar)
2X8GB - DDR4 - 2400MHZ (brand not yet selected but have been suggested CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX)
1x new PSU, not found one suitable yet
1x ASUS GTX 1080 TI
1x M2
My problem now comes with windows.
As I would like to keep all my games, programs and so on, without having to reinstall (which is impossible since I dont have disk or keys for many of them) all of it, I'm curious if it is possible to extract windows from my SSD, and move it onto the M2 chip without losing the "connections" between OS and the rest of everything. As Windows use paths in the registry to know where everything is, I'm worried that these are getting severed If its being moved.
Is it possible to move Windows without this happen?
I know I can clone it onto a new disk, or chip in this case, but as far as I know, windows would still expect everything to be in the same places.
I hope there is some windows expert out there that can help make me a little bit smarter about this
May you all have a good day