Moving Drives with windows to a new Machine

[DustyDrums]

Hi, I'm not so much having trouble but was just wondering instead. I plan to get a new PC as my current one was a old prebuilt that i upgraded over the past 4/5 years? My plan was to just get a whole new system from a system builder and just move my drives including windows over to the new system and just boot it normally as i am lazy to re-install all my programs, will there be any implications in doing so or am i just overthinking it. Vice Versa for the drive in the new system, can i just move it over to the old machine and boot it normally?

Current system:
i7-4790
Asus M52AD motherboard (Prebuilt came with this)

Generic 16GB 1600Mhz  Ram
EVGA GTX 1070
120GB & 500GB SSD
1TB HDD

New System:

Intel CORE I5 11400F
Asus Dual RTX 3060 Ti OC 8GB
Asus Prime H510M-A/Wifi
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 DRAM 3600Mhz C18 Memory Kit 2x8GB (16GB) - Black  (I'm aware the 11400f is 3200Mhz rated but this is just what they had in stock)
Teamgroup Elite X2 500GB 2.5" Drive
SilverStone ET650-HG 80+ Gold, Semi-Modular (650W)
Tecware Forge M Omni ARGB (TG) (Black)
Windows 10 Home (unactivated)
ID-Cooling SE-224-XT-Black (3Y)

[Mark Kaine]

it should work,  just deinstall the chipset drivers before the swap, then reinstall the new ones.

 

But. there's no guarantee it will work,  you may encounter instabilities etc.

 

1 hour ago, DustyDrums said:

Windows 10 Home (unactivated)

is there a reason for that? i think you should be able to keep using your old windows license (if you have one)