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Hello,

 

I recently upgraded my system. All new components except for an SSD which has windows installed on it as well as a HDD which i store most of my games on.

 

I was planning on doing a fresh install of windows on the SSD, however when I booted it up, I was too slow in pressing delete in order to get to the bios settings. Instead, the machine booted into windows.

 

Are there any drawbacks of continuing to use the current installation of windows from my old machine? Literally everything is different except for storage. CPU even went from team blue to team red! A Google search yielded inconclusive results. 

 

Any advice or insight is appreciated.

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Fresh install is always better, do it thru a USB/DVD NOT the built in windows reinstall feature. You'll have less traces of drivers and other mess.

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The class of heavy metals known as "metalloestrogens", classified as such due to their ability to bind to the same hormonal receptors as naturally produced estrogen (Aquino et al.), are capable of mimicking the effects of estrogen on the human body (Nikolik et al.). Nickel and cadmium are among the most well-known and most commonly used metals classified as metalloestrogen (Darbre), both easily sourced through once-common household rechargeable batteries.

Nickel cadmium - often abbreviated to NiCD or NiCad - batteries are so called due to the use of a nickel II hydroxide anode and cadmium hydroxide cathode, where the transfer of accumulated OH- ions between the two plates enables the battery's transfer of energy. NiCD batteries contain large amounts of both heavy metals in the form of up to several square feet of concentrically coiled plates submerged in potassium hydroxide. Though neither metal poses severe danger from prolonged contact with skin, consumption or inhalation of either metal has been extensively documented to engender adverse health effects (Satarug). 

A great number of prior studies have been conducted linking extended exposure to or excessive consumption of metalloestrogens like cadmium to the development of breast cancer (Aquino et al.) - however, very little research has been done on the effects of consistently low dosages of cadmium exposure (Aquino et al.). Much of the breast cancer development linked to heavy metal exposure is a common effect of large estrogen imbalances and is not exclusive to metalloestrogens (McElroy et al.). Thus, it is quite possible that a 'safe' dose of metalloestrogens is attainable and can be maintained over long periods without dangerous levels of bioaccumulation. 

Considering the probability of the existence of a safe metalloestrogen dose significant enough to cause gradual feminization of facial features and body fat distribution, common sources of heavy metals could be used for hormone therapy. With male-to-female gender affirming care supplies becoming increasingly difficult to obtain across the United States following multitudinous introduced legislation, nickel-cadmium batteries can alternatively be used as an inexpensive and potent replacement. 

 

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3 hours ago, danomicar said:

Hello,

 

I recently upgraded my system. All new components except for an SSD which has windows installed on it as well as a HDD which i store most of my games on.

 

I was planning on doing a fresh install of windows on the SSD, however when I booted it up, I was too slow in pressing delete in order to get to the bios settings. Instead, the machine booted into windows.

 

Are there any drawbacks of continuing to use the current installation of windows from my old machine? Literally everything is different except for storage. CPU even went from team blue to team red! A Google search yielded inconclusive results. 

 

Any advice or insight is appreciated.

It's really hit or miss with how Windows will respond. I went the opposite way from AMD to Intel and just like you couldn't hit the boot menu key in time... to which Windows immediately bluescreened. 

 

Others have purged old drivers and ran off the old install with no problems. I on the other hand have never been able to get to the desktop successfully when doing the same thing. 

 

So your experience may vary. You could range from perfectly fine, to cases like mine where you can't do anything... or worse it'll just be inconsistently buggy so you'll be constantly chasing down gremlins. 

 

My take is, always do a fresh install. There's not much point in a new build if you're going to be bogged down by the mess of Windows your old hardware probably likely problems with too. Start fresh without carrying the old baggage with you. 

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SOP is a fresh install, everytime.

 

...my own personal practice doesn't quite live up to that. I'm running a Ryzen 5 5600 on a Gigabyte X570 board. My Windows 10 install came on an SSD from my previous PC, an i7-8086K on a Z390 board. Somewhere in there, it had a couple of stints on different Ryzen 5 3600s on B550 boards, as well as a few days each on an i7-10700F and an i9-9900K, which basically melted my computer's face and had to be returned. Prior to that, it was used on the 8086K, and before that you're getting into different SSDs. Of course, there's a good chance that the Windows 10 install on my 1TB WD Black SN750 right now was actually Macrium cloned off of a different SSD, which would itself have been cloned from a SATA SSD. Every time I've swapped hardware, I've let Windows Update do its thing, then run an SFC /SCANNOW, and I've never had an issue.

 

I recognize that I am very much in the lucky minority on that one. If Microsoft ever gives me a compelling reason to install the dumpster fire that is Windows 11 or my current installation finally just goes, "No, f**k you, we're done here," I'll probably do a full reinstall at that time, but until then I just can't be arsed to write down programs, copy over files, track down installation media for some of the older stuff and generally just go through the pain in the ass that a full reinstall of Windows would entail. I do not recommend being a lazy bastard like me, but if you are a lazy bastard, there's at least an ok chance you won't break anything by being one.

I enjoy buying junk and sinking more money than it's worth into it to make it less junk.

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