Transferring laptop ssd

[jamesfindlay3]

Hello, my current laptop is on it's last legs, despite being fairly new (2.5 years old) the touchpad doesn't work properly anymore the keyboard is having trouble and one of the hinges for the screen broke off, the trouble of plastic laptops I guess. I don't want to have to go through the whole process of transferring data again as i have this current laptop set up perfectly as I want it. It has a pcie (gen 3) ssd in it atm and I was just wondering if I bought a new laptop and just shoved it in there (i would make sure it could support it) would that be a problem? I know that a lot of modern laptops have a whole bunch of proprietary software that help them function and by swapping drives would this be a problem? I guess the other option is a custom laptop with no drive but these are expensive. Thanks

[5x5]

You will have to reinstall the OS - you're changing ALL the software/firmware/drivers and the entire platform. If you just put the old drive in the new device, you'll have massive issues and instability.

[jamesfindlay3]

1 minute ago, 5x5 said:

You will have to reinstall the OS - you're changing ALL the software/firmware/drivers and the entire platform. If you just put the old drive in the new device, you'll have massive issues and instability.

Yeah i thought this might be a problem, i had a look and a custom laptop with no storage or os isnt too bad. Maybe i'll just go for that and its basically a barebones. And if i send then the ssd they can put some stuff on it if needed

 

[5x5]

Just now, jamesfindlay3 said:

Yeah i thought this might be a problem, i had a look and a custom laptop with no storage or os isnt too bad. Maybe i'll just go for that and its basically a barebones. And if i send then the ssd they can put some stuff on it if needed

 

You'd also have to reinstall windows then. Again, you can't transfer 3-year-old firmware on a brand new system without messing up the registry of the OS and causing massive driver conflicts and problems.

[5x5]

1 minute ago, jamesfindlay3 said:

Yeah i thought this might be a problem, i had a look and a custom laptop with no storage or os isnt too bad. Maybe i'll just go for that and its basically a barebones. And if i send then the ssd they can put some stuff on it if needed

 

There rule is - if the motherboard is changed, the OS also changes.