Process of swaping core components?

[StarsMars]

Just ordered a new CPU, Motherboard and Ram.

(3700x, Asus Crosshair hero Vii X470. 32gb 2x16 3600 CL16)

Swaping from a 6600k

 

I know I'm going to have to flash the motherboard.

Not sure what I will need to remove, or how to go about removing them. (Audio drivers from old Mobo, Intel igpu drivers, more?)

Will I be able to reuse my Windows key?

 

Anyone gone through this process?

[Juular]

You don't really need to uninstall your current drivers beforehand, Windows will detect that hardware was changed and will use universal drivers until you'll install the right ones. But you may need to reactivate Windows with the same product key.

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, Juular said:

Windows will detect that hardware was changed and will use universal drivers until you'll install the right ones.

*If the motherboard doesn't reject the current windows install

[Juular]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

*If the motherboard doesn't reject the current windows install

I've moved from Intel Coffee Lake-S to AMD Zen 2 just fine. Windows 10 is quite liberal with hardware changes in comparison with previous versions.

[StarsMars]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

*If the motherboard doesn't reject the current windows install

In that scenario, what would I need to do?

Trying to be prepared for potential headaches and the least downtime

[Juular]

Just now, StarsMars said:

In that scenario, what would I need to do?

Trying to be prepared for potential headaches and the least downtime

Reinstall it from scratch. Make a Windows installer USB beforehand.

[StarsMars]

5 minutes ago, Juular said:

You don't really need to uninstall your current drivers beforehand, Windows will detect that hardware was changed and will use universal drivers until you'll install the right ones. But you may need to reactivate Windows with the same product key.

Then I can just go in and remove realtek drivers and install the new ones for supremefx?

And remove intel uhd just for the sake of space

[Kilrah]

Full reinstall, but it's unlikely.

If your Win key is an OEM key you'll need a new one, if it's retail you should be OK (but might need to call MS to reactivate).

[StarsMars]

Just now, Juular said:

Reinstall it from scratch. Make a Windows installer USB beforehand.

Reinstall windows on a drive that already has windows?

Sorry for the noobage

[Kilrah]

Erasing everything while doing so of course.

[Juular]

2 minutes ago, StarsMars said:

Reinstall windows on a drive that already has windows?

Sorry for the noobage

Yep, partition your boot drive so that Windows will be on separate partition from all other stuff that you don't want to lose (move that stuff to secondary partition of course). Then just wipe that boot partition in Windows installer and install it fresh.

[StarsMars]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Erasing everything while doing so of course.

Oh that would be reallly bad

Just now, Juular said:

Yep, partition your boot drive so that Windows will be on separate partition from all other stuff that you don't want to lose. Then just wipe that boot partition in Windows installer and install it fresh.

Thank you.That probably would have cause me a lot of pain

[Kilrah]

I'd recommend moving everything important to an external drive instead, easy to wipe the wrong partition when you don't really know what you're doing.

[StarsMars]

19 minutes ago, Juular said:

Yep, partition your boot drive so that Windows will be on separate partition from all other stuff that you don't want to lose (move that stuff to secondary partition of course). Then just wipe that boot partition in Windows installer and install it fresh.

When you isolate the OS to a partition, do you have to do it manually or is there a tool for that?

Meaning do you have to manually create a partition and find the OS files and move them, or is there a better way?

[Juular]

5 minutes ago, StarsMars said:

When you isolate the OS to a partition, do you have to do it manually or is there a tool for that?

Meaning do you have to manually create a partition and find the OS files and move them, or is there a better way?

1. Open "Computer Management" snippet, navigate to "Disk Management"

2. Right-click your system partition (and sole i guess), click "Shrink partition", shrink it to about 50GB or minimum size possible (if you have more than 50GB of files on it), right-click on empty space and create a new partition, move all non-system files there, repeat until system partition is 50GB.

[Juular]

Also you can move user data folders to secondary partition too, Desktop, Documents, Movies, Pictures, Downloads, all this stuff. Navigate to your user profile folder, smth like that : "C:\Users\[Your user name]\" and move all folders with icons on them to secondary drive. Windows will automatically remap locations of these folders where you'll move them so your desktop for example will now be on secondary partition.

[StarsMars]

The new motherboard and cpu are up and running. Windows 10 asked for activation. It didn't reactivate and microsoft support told me to buy a new key.