Windows not booting after cpu swap.

[Landleyy]

Hello friends,

 

i just upgraded my rig from an old i5 4690 to a brand new ryzen 5600x, of course including new mainboard and ram (msi b550 with 3600 MHz).

I didnt upgrade my storage, so i hoped that just plugging in the old ssd will do the trick and i can boot into Windows.

Nope, it seems that my system doesnt recognise that windows is installed on the ssd, although the ssd works just fine. I tried to boot from an usb drive, which works just fine, but recovery didnt work. I could also see the content of the ssd via cmd Terminal.

 

Any suggestions besides from reinstalling windows completely new?

 

Thanks,

a newbie from Austria

[bellabichon]

Sometimes you can switch platforms without reinstalling Windows, but the jump from Haswell to Zen 3 is so large that I'm not surprised it didn't work. I'd recommend you reinstall Windows on the system, then plug in your old drive to salvage any important files you want to keep. 

[Landleyy]

Yeah so seems like a lot of work, gotta copy the ssd to an external one, then format and reinstall and then save the important stuff. *uff*

[Doug_Dangger]

Even if you were successful there would be such a huge mess from the drivers left over in the system drive.

I don't know if Windows updates are at times cpu/board specific (I imagine it could be) then you have that mess to worry about too.

 

Clean wipe and install is the best way to go.  In the old spinning drive days I can see why one would not want to waste hours.  But in the M.2 days, heck I did a fresh install a month ago in my new system (M.2) and I was rocking and rolling in like 15 minutes.