Reusing an SSD from current build

[Mr. Brian]

I am building a computer with all new components soon and am going to reuse both of my SSDs from my current pc. I was wondering if there was anything special I have to do before putting them into my new computer or if I could simply just put them in and be fine.

[RONOTHAN##]

You can just take it out of the old system and throw it in the new one. It is usually a good idea to reinstall Windows though. 

[Dukesilver27-]

Speaking from experience like 2 weeks ago, I swapped motherboard because my old one is dead.

I just put the old SSD into the new motherboard, it ran fine because I uninstalled old motherboard drivers and install new ones right away, but windows won't update at all. No matter what I did, which caused some crashes to certain games.

 

I had to fix the current windows install with a windows installer, quite easy to do, just takes time.

Point is, you'd want to fix windows install and remove old drivers then install new drivers right away. Or reinstall windows.

 

This is for windows 10/11.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

My experience with that has always been disastrous. When I went from an FX6300 to a 12700, the moment Windows tried to load, it bluescreened immediately. 

 

Do a fresh install. I see no reason why you would want to bog down your system with an old Windows install. You'll spend more time chasing down gremlins than re-installing everything from scratch. 

[T487]

Well if it's just a data drive, then no. (Presuming you are using) Windows should automatically detect it as such.

But if it is the (old) OS drive, then you would want to delete any partitions & format the drive. Firstly because you don't ever want your computer to boot from it by mistake. & secondly to free up extra space. (Make sure to back up any data you have on it first though). There are several methods of doing this, of course. But I usually delete the partitions when installing Windows to my newer drive. Make sure it is the correct drive though. As you don't want to erase the wrong one. You can usually tell by the amount of storage space.

 

 

If you are unsure... don't use this method. Instead use Disk Management in Windows to delete the partitions & format the drive beforehand or later on. If you choose the first method, you will have to format the drive in Disk Management anyway & assign it a drive letter. Then you should be good to go. As a bonus tip, I would also recommend disabling drive indexing for SSD drives.

[T487]

7 minutes ago, Tim834 said:

 

 

[thrasher_565]

some mb alow you to just swap it in some dont. but its the best to do a reinstall thow.