do i need to reformat?

[jonobang]

i plan on moving my old ssd to my new build with the os on it and everything, i have a new key, i just want to know if i need to wipe everything before moving it over or if i dont need to wipe it at all, google has been very back and forth on this topic so i wanna know what you guys think about it. thanks

[brob]

Best is to wipe the drive and reinstall.

 

There are reports that Windows 10 can do a decent job recognizing significant hardware changes and adjusting its configuration. 

[jonobang]

1 minute ago, brob said:

Best is to wipe the drive and reinstall.

 

There are reports that Windows 10 can do a decent job recognizing significant hardware changes and adjusting its configuration. 

so you think i could try installing without wiping and see if it works first? and if it doesnt then go back and reformat?

[brob]

Sure. Just make sure that you have very good backups of anything you don't want to lose BEFORE attempting the move.

 

Let us know how it works out.

[jonobang]

Just now, brob said:

Sure. Just make sure that you have very good backups of anything you don't want to lose BEFORE attempting the move.

 

yup definitely got that done, i recently got this ssd on the new computer so i still have the files on a flash drive. the thing i mainly want to avoid is reinstalling all of my games because there over 800 gigs of games currently installed and it would be kind of a pain to have to reinstall them x.x

[jonobang]

2 minutes ago, brob said:

Sure. Just make sure that you have very good backups of anything you don't want to lose BEFORE attempting the move.

 

also as a note when i first built this older pc i moved over a old drive, same cpu, different mobo and it didnt have issues but this time its a totally new system so i didn't know if a different cpu would also make a difference which it probably will since different cpu drivers since im going from a intel based board to a amd ryzen board.