HDD Transfer

[akrisgarc]

So I have an old pc and I am planning to buy a new one and I am planning to transfer my storage device to the pc. 
My question is, will my settings, installed games and applications, security settings remain the same after I install the necessary drivers for my new pc?. 

 

thanks, new here in LTT. 

[Pickles von Brine]

Are you just going to swap the drive in to the new machine? It should be fine. Windows will redo the drivers. Otherwise, if you clean install then answer would be no. Though there is a way to get some of your settings and stuff back. 

Steam games can be easily transferred. Applications have to be reinstalled on a clean install. 

Data can be transferred easily. 

[akrisgarc]

2 minutes ago, Pickles - Lord of the Jar said:

Are you just going to swap the drive in to the new machine? It should be fine. Windows will redo the drivers. Otherwise, if you clean install then answer would be no. Though there is a way to get some of your settings and stuff back. 

Steam games can be easily transferred. Applications have to be reinstalled on a clean install. 

Data can be transferred easily. 

Yes, I plan to directly transfer the drive to the new machine, and it is windows 10, so I figured windows will do the driver updates for me. 

Thank you for the response, i just want someone's opinion before I move anything. haha

[Pickles von Brine]

2 hours ago, akrisgarc said:

Yes, I plan to directly transfer the drive to the new machine, and it is windows 10, so I figured windows will do the driver updates for me. 

Thank you for the response, i just want someone's opinion before I move anything. haha

If you have issues you may need to start over though. Best option I would recommend is making backup of your drive, then you can move stuff over. 

I personally created a virtual disk in disk utility then cloned my boot drive to that. Now I can mount it whenever after a clean install. 

[Vishera]

11 minutes ago, akrisgarc said:

Yes, I plan to directly transfer the drive to the new machine, and it is windows 10, so I figured windows will do the driver updates for me. 

Thank you for the response, i just want someone's opinion before I move anything. haha

Yeah it shouldn't be a problem.

At least on Windows 10 you don't have to do a OOBE everytime before transfering the drive like on Windows 7.

[Pickles von Brine]

4 minutes ago, Vishera said:

Yeah it shouldn't be a problem.

At least on Windows 10 you don't have to do a OOBE everytime before transfering the drive like on Windows 7.

Thank god for that. 

[Godlygamer23]

2 hours ago, akrisgarc said:

Yes, I plan to directly transfer the drive to the new machine, and it is windows 10, so I figured windows will do the driver updates for me. 

Thank you for the response, i just want someone's opinion before I move anything. haha

Windows should handle everything for you, save for activation. When I upgraded my computer(going from my 3570K to 2600X), I just connected the drive to my new motherboard, turned it on, and when Windows booted, it recognized all the hardware and installed/activated all the necessary drivers, and I'm still using it since that upgrade took place.