Pre install Win 10?

[Akadis]

Hello,

so I want to install Win 10 on a new SSD but on my PC that the one which it belongs to can still operate.

 

Does it work that i just switch the hard drives then and then install all the drivers or do i have to install it on the PC i want the ssd to be??

 

Thanks, Akadis

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I would just install it on the PC you are going to use it on.  You'd save a lot of hassel

[Akadis]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I would just install it on the PC you are going to use it on.  You'd save a lot of hassel

still i do a lot of building for friends and family and i want to install windows at home so when i go to them i just have to plug in the hard drive get my stick with all the drivers and i am done don't have to wait at their place till win is installed

 

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8 minutes ago, Akadis said:

still i do a lot of building for friends and family and i want to install windows at home so when i go to them i just have to plug in the hard drive get my stick with all the drivers and i am done don't have to wait at their place till win is installed

 

If you are building the computer you could not also just install the OS before sending it out?

[Akadis]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

If you are building the computer you could not also just install the OS before sending it out?

well thats a good point

 

any idea how i could pull it off (i know it won't save time still wanna know how it could work)

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3 minutes ago, Akadis said:

well thats a good point

 

any idea how i could pull it off (i know it won't save time still wanna know how it could work)

Well I imagine it'd go something like this:

• You assemble parts into completed computer
• You install Windows on newly assembled computer
• You send computer to the customer

There might be another way if that's not appealing for some reason, but I don't see why that wouldn't work.

[Akadis]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well I imagine it'd go something like this:

• You assemble parts into completed computer
• You install Windows on newly assembled computer
• You send computer to the customer

There might be another way if that's not appealing for some reason, but I don't see why that wouldn't work.

yeah i know that one

 

I have PC1 where I plug my ssd into then with a progr. or something i install basic win 10 onto it and then put the ssd into PC2

 

They us sort of that system in my school but over the network so thats why i want to know if there is a way 

 

 

[alex_read]

I hope I've understood the original question properly but it sounds as though your school could be using ghosting, or imaging - where a computer's operating system, drivers, installed programs are all cloned, and copied to a different computer. In this situation it is a lot faster rather than installing the OS, reboot, installing each app 1 by 1, rebooting after each, then running the updates for all of them. For this to work though (usually), the hardware and computer models need to match - if the cloned computer is a Dell with motherboard type a, processor type b and hard drive type c, the destination computer receiving the image ought to be the same.

 

I'd agree with the above comments, I'm not quite understanding why you're not wanting to just install the operating system on their computer directly then just shipping it out. It's not just the drivers you have to bear in mind, but the activation details also. When Windows installs, it's installation picks up many of the hardware items inside the computer. It reads certain hardware manufacturer details from many of these pieces of hardware (serial numbers etc.) and generates a unique Windows license and activation code set from these details. If you ever substantially change your hardware (for instance, placing the drive in a completely different computer), Windows will understand the hardware no longer matches. At the best case, it'll show you a "you've changed the hardware configuration, you need to re-activate Windows now" message. At the worst case, Windows will crash and not load as all the drivers telling it how to communicate with the hardware, are no longer valid.