Can I just use my old SSD in my new build without any issues?

[tuxt1]

Hey everyone, 

 

I'm building a new computer today and wanted to see if I could reuse my SSD from my old build. If I take the old SSD and plug it into the new system, will I run into any issues? I'm more worried about windows thinking it's not activated.

 

Part 2 of this question: The SSD is older and I don't have a lot of faith in it. How would I go about transferring everything on it over to a new NVME drive? Would that definitely fire the windows activation message?

 

Thanks!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yea you can reuse the ssd, it will likely need to be re activated as it will detect new hardware, but you can normally put the key in again and your good.

[--SID--]

Because of drivers and other sht it's recommanded to do a clean install when you swap the motherboard.

 

What's your old and new motherboard?

[burnedburden]

you can do it, most of the time there will be no problems.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

10 minutes ago, --SID-- said:

Because of drivers and other sht it's recommanded to do a clean install when you swap the motherboard.

I think the best way I would describe this is...

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This is a new build, why would you hamstring it with a crippled Windows install? Installing a fresh copy of Windows guarantees you get everything you paid for from the get go.

[Classy Car]

The windows installation will become unactivated because you're basically bringing it to an entire new home. 
Once I plugged an old laptop hdd into my desktop for some more storage and it still had data on it, i tried to boot off of it because it had windows 10 on it and it didn't even show up in my boot manager.

I would recommend that you backup the data of your SSD and move it to a HDD. 
Once your important things are on the HDD, you want to format (erase) the SSD and plug them both into your

new PC. Transfer all of the HDD storage to the SSD.

TL;DR 
No, without issues. 
You are going to have to back up your important things to a HDD if you want to and format (erase) the SSD

[tuxt1]

17 minutes ago, --SID-- said:

Because of drivers and other sht it's recommanded to do a clean install when you swap the motherboard.

 

What's your old and new motherboard?

Old mobo is a dell prebuilt special that I turned into my gaming rig. 

New one is a Z590.

[tuxt1]

10 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I think the best way I would describe this is...

This makes sense thanks! Does anyone have a recommendation on the best way to migrate my data onto a new SSD after a fresh windows install?