Windows help

[StrikerGamingUK]

Hey there from the UK! I have recently upgraded my gaming pc and have gone from a intel i5-4460s paired with a rx460 and 16gb ram to a i5-5600k and a gtx 1080 ti and 16gb ram, I moved my old drive (1tb integral SSD) to the new pc as my nvme drive hadn't arrived yet. It's now arrived and installed. It's a Samsung m.2 nvme 512gb.

 

I'm looking to have my OS (windows 10) on the m.2 and have my sata SSD as my game/file drive. 

 

As part of the migration when I first built the pc my windows key has been wiped off the drive and I now have the annoying watermark in the corner.

 

Is there a way to move my OS to the nvme and keeping my files and games still or will I require a complete fresh install?

 

I do have a windows 10 pro image on a usb that I made before the upgrade just incase it all went to sh#t 

 

Love the vids! 

 

Regards

 

Jack Martin-Beales 

[StrikerGamingUK]

For those who may be curious my old pc could run games at 60-80fps on high settings very good in light of it being a very old system by today's standards 

[emosun]

if youre just cloning a drive then the drive will be cloned in whatever state it was in on the previous drive. seeing as your windows isn't activated it'll be the same story with the new drive.

[Slottr]

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Please don't double post.

[StrikerGamingUK]

8 minutes ago, Slottr said:

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Please don't double post.

I realised after I posted it was in the wrong thread so posted in the windows thread and working out how to delete this one new to forums 

[StrikerGamingUK]

12 minutes ago, emosun said:

if youre just cloning a drive then the drive will be cloned in whatever state it was in on the previous drive. seeing as your windows isn't activated it'll be the same story with the new drive.

It was activated prior to the transition to the new pc .... Windows detected a major hardware change and deactivated 

[Xiee]

Just now, StrikerGamingUK said:

It was activated prior to the transition to the new pc .... Windows detected a major hardware change and deactivated 

Then you're out of luck. If that key is locked to your hardware then there's no way to activate it on the new hardware. You're probably better off buying a new key. Just get the OEM keys which are cheap online.

[Failure 101]

Are you still using the old motherboard?

45 minutes ago, StrikerGamingUK said:

Hey there from the UK! I have recently upgraded my gaming pc and have gone from a intel i5-4460s paired with a rx460 and 16gb ram to a i5-5600k and a gtx 1080 ti and 16gb ram, I moved my old drive (1tb integral SSD) to the new pc as my nvme drive hadn't arrived yet. It's now arrived and installed. It's a Samsung m.2 nvme 512gb.

 

I'm looking to have my OS (windows 10) on the m.2 and have my sata SSD as my game/file drive. 

 

As part of the migration when I first built the pc my windows key has been wiped off the drive and I now have the annoying watermark in the corner.

 

Is there a way to move my OS to the nvme and keeping my files and games still or will I require a complete fresh install?

 

I do have a windows 10 pro image on a usb that I made before the upgrade just incase it all went to sh#t 

 

Love the vids! 

 

Regards

 

Jack Martin-Beales 

 

[StrikerGamingUK]

29 minutes ago, Failure 101 said:

Are you still using the old motherboard?

 

No I have upgraded from 4th gen intel (LGA 1150) to 6th gen (lga1151)