do i need to reinstall windows?

[storm05]

building a new pc. i am changing everything and moving the os intsall drive and game drive to my new pc my last pc had a old 4th gen MB and my new one has 12th gen MB and both intel. i cound not upgrade to windows 11 on my last pc and since i am changing MB do i need to reinstall windows or can i just upgrade to windows 11  with out reinstaling windows 10?

[Hinjima]

4 minutes ago, storm05 said:

building a new pc. i am changing everything and moving the os intsall drive and game drive to my new pc my last pc had a old 4th gen MB and my new one has 12th gen MB and both intel. i cound not upgrade to windows 11 on my last pc and since i am changing MB do i need to reinstall windows or can i just upgrade to windows 11  with out reinstaling windows 10?

When doing such a huge hardware change you should definitely reinstall windows to avoid corrupt files and crashes as there can be complications with the old drivers vs new drivers etc etc

[tkitch]

you'll be much better off reinstalling than upgrading. 

[storm05]

is there a way of reinstalling and not lossing all my games?

 

[Hinjima]

2 minutes ago, storm05 said:

is there a way of reinstalling and not lossing all my games?

 

You should do a fresh reinstall and that will sadly delete your games. You can move the save files to a different hard drive or USB stick so you don't lose your game progress. But you would need to download the games again.

[storm05]

and does anyone have a good vid of how to reinstall windows afther a MB swich and other things to do?

[storm05]

btw shoud i install my gpu driver before or afther upgrading? and the other stuf

[Hinjima]

1 minute ago, storm05 said:

btw shoud i install my gpu driver before or afther upgrading? and the other stuf

reinstalling windows the clean way will delete absolutely all files. You would need to install all GPU drivers and similar after windows has been installed.

 

[storm05]

1 minute ago, Hinjima said:

reinstalling windows the clean way will delete absolutely all files. You would need to install all GPU drivers and similar after windows has been installed.

 

i meant befor windows 11 or afther

[Hinjima]

2 minutes ago, storm05 said:

i meant befor windows 11 or afther

After you have installed windows.

[storm05]

so when i have installed windows 10?

[storm05]

Just now, storm05 said:

so when i have installed windows 10?

and then i upgrade to windows 11

[Hinjima]

2 minutes ago, storm05 said:

and then i upgrade to windows 11

You can install windows 11 and not windows 10. same procedure as the windows 10 video.
Click the Create Windows 11 Installation Media and download windows 11 to a USB drive.
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

 

[storm05]

in the video they used a fresh ssd but my ssd has windows 10 and stuf downlowded on it 

[AlwaysFSX]

28 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

When doing such a huge hardware change you should definitely reinstall windows to avoid corrupt files and crashes as there can be complications with the old drivers vs new drivers etc etc

This hasn't been true for quite a while. Windows will detect hardware changes and update the drivers of everything accordingly. Even swapping platforms from AMD <-> Intel.

If there's any concern, manually check to update drivers.

[storm05]

1 minute ago, AlwaysFSX said:

This hasn't been true for quite a while. Windows will detect hardware changes and update the drivers of everything accordingly. Even swapping platforms from AMD <-> Intel.

If there's any concern, manually check to update drivers.

can you teel me som steps on what to do and watch out for?

[AlwaysFSX]

2 minutes ago, storm05 said:

can you teel me som steps on what to do and watch out for?

You just install the boot drive in to the new computer and boot Windows like normal. It'll pinwheel on first boot detecting hardware changes and go to your desktop like you expect. Run a Windows update and it should pull and driver changes. If not or if it misses something just manually go through your list of hardware and find the most recent drivers from the respective manufacturer's website.

You can check your driver versions by going Device Manager -> Right click on a device in the list -> Properties -> Driver tab -> Driver Version: #.#.#.#.#

 

From here you can also do Update Driver and let it search automatically, but sometimes that might not work. Manually installing will be fine.

[storm05]

anything i shoud uninstall befor swaping drive? going from nvidia to amd gpu so ddu it a i suppose.