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Changing mother boards

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Okay so my brother and I are planning to upgrade our computers. We both have the exact same build. We simply want to remove our old MOBO and replace it with a newer better one. I just need to know the simplest way to do so without getting any conflicting errors at boot. We also do not want to have to do a fresh install of windows. Please help we would really appreciate it!

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Rule of thumb is that if you change your motherboard, you need to reinstall Windows, with Windows 10, you'll need a new licence as well. You can try removing all the drivers before changing the motherboard, but that can be tricky and unreliable. Other than that, doing a motherboard is pretty straight forward

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8 hours ago, Speckk said:

Well what If im not able to find my install disK?

You would need a new one. If I'm not mistaken, there are legal ways of downloading ISOs to burn your own installation disks.......but you still need a key/license to use them. If you have a working key/license from your current OS you might be able to reuse it when you install.

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I've been able to change my motherboard twice without having to reinstall Windows 10 but your milage may vary. You will probably have better luck by just re-installing Windows. You can get  a cheap key off of /r/microsoftsoftwareswap.

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15 hours ago, Speckk said:

Well what If im not able to find my install disK?

You can download one directly from MS. You can make a bootable USB or actual disk (I'm saying that because I had a mobo which didn't support USB boot, so I had used an instalation disk after so many years.....)

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