questions about moving my my hard drives and ssds (m.2 nvme too) to a new pc build

[Zireael99]

im upgrading from intel i5-8400 to a ryzen 9 5900x later this month

i have a ton of storage and just wanted to know if i just need to unplug it and plug it to the new build

i dont know if the new pc will recognize the and i hope they are not locked

also how can reinstall my current c drive properly with in new build or should i just empty an ssd and do a fresh install ?

btw I did get a new mobo psu and gonna get a 3080/90 in early 2021 

[GoodEnough]

personally whenever i do a swap of parts i generally do a fresh install of windows 10

[Donut417]

26 minutes ago, Zireael99 said:

im upgrading from intel i5-8400 to a ryzen 9 5900x later this month

i have a ton of storage and just wanted to know if i just need to unplug it and plug it to the new build

i dont know if the new pc will recognize the and i hope they are not locked

also how can reinstall my current c drive properly with in new build or should i just empty an ssd and do a fresh install ?

btw I did get a new mobo psu and gonna get a 3080/90 in early 2021 

Your doing a platform change so a reinstall is a good idea. However, there is always a chance that you pop your Windows drive in to a new machine and connect it to the internet and it will pull the new drivers it needs. 

 

However if it were me. Id install your OS drive only. Reinstall Windows, then install the rest of your storage. 

[SupaKomputa]

I suggest you just plug it to the new system and see what's gonna happen.

Windows has been pretty good at dealing with hardware change.

If it doesn't work, then you reinstall.

Generally all you need to worry is the main drive, the other drive will just plug and play.

Although you might need to change the drive letters if needed.