Putting SSD with existing OS into a new laptop, is there anything I should know before doing it?

[Aetherslime]

What is the safest way of doing it? I am ready to do as factory-reset, I keep files for school in Google Drive. 

It is an Intel SSD and they have software to manage their SSDs, so if there are any useful tools on that, pleas tell me

[Pooherino ツ]

What is the safest way of doing it? I am ready to do as factory-reset, I keep files for school in Google Drive. 

It is an Intel SSD and they have software to manage their SSDs, so if there are any useful tools on that, pleas tell me

just plug it in. No problem

[AlwaysFSX]

You've got to reinstall drivers for it.

[manikyath]

depending on what os, this can do anything between not boot at all, and automatically update its own drivers.

[Nineshadow]

Uninstall drivers , just to be safe.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Best bet is to uninstall drivers first. However, it's not certain to work. It can range from outright not booting at all, to just requiring driver installs. 

[middleclasspoor]

Just clone and swap, shouldn't be a problem.

 

Good luck!

[FizzyFantom]

It may or may not work, depending on a variety of factors. It might not work at all crashing at the Windows loading or might boot to the desktop.

 

Assuming it boots on the old PC your best bet would be to run sysprep:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Hh824920.aspx#bkmk_6

 

This still wouln't be guarenteed to work, it would just reduce the chance of driver issues preventing it booting.

 

I would recommend a clean install, but I understand this isn't always practical or possible.

 

Best of luck

[Jwolf7722]

Intel Data Migration software. It works flawless. 

[Captain_WD]

What is the safest way of doing it? I am ready to do as factory-reset, I keep files for school in Google Drive. 

It is an Intel SSD and they have software to manage their SSDs, so if there are any useful tools on that, pleas tell me

 

Hey there Aetherslime,

 

I would recommend moving everything you want to keep from your boot partition (C drive) to another partition or another whole drive and doing a fresh install of the OS once you've moved the drive onto the new computer. This is the safest way of migrating your drive as you would avoid all problems with compatibility, drivers and OS licences. You would also have to reinstall all applications and games.

 

Captain_WD.