Upgrading questions.

[KooKooMan117]

build: Amd 5350 gigabyte GA am1m S2H, gtx 950, 8gb ddr3 1600 (2 sticks of 4gb). I currently have windows 10 64bit, i have already upgraded my GPU but now im upgrading my CPU so that requires a new MB, how would i go about this without having to wipe my HDD?

[Enderman]

do you have a second drive?

its a lot easier with a second drive

 

either move your files to the second drive then format and install windows on the first drive

 

or install windows on the second drive then plug in the first drive and move your files back to the second drive, then format the first drive

[MJ...]

Budget?

[KooKooMan117]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

do you have a second drive?

its a lot easier with a second drive

 

either move your files to the second drive then format and install windows on the first drive

 

or install windows on the second drive then plug in the first drive and move your files back to the second drive, then format the first drive

So theirs no way around it? must i or can i swap the MB and CPU and still boot off the HDD

 

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, KooKooMan117 said:

So theirs no way around it? must i or can i swap the MB and CPU and still boot off the HDD

 

if you want to avoid all kinds of problems then yeah you need to clean install windows

 

if you dont you will probably get more problems in the future, or it might not even boot

[Windows7ge]

2 minutes ago, KooKooMan117 said:

build: Amd 5350 gigabyte GA am1m S2H, gtx 950, 8gb ddr3 1600 (2 sticks of 4gb). I currently have windows 10 64bit, i have already upgraded my GPU but now im upgrading my CPU so that requires a new MB, how would i go about this without having to wipe my HDD?

The biggest issue you're going to have is that Windows 10 takes a record of the hardware you're plugged into. If you change out the MoBo, and CPU then just plug the HDD into the new motherboard Windows will say Preparing New Hardware then once you're back into Windows it'll tell you that windows is no longer genuine and you'll have to buy a new key...but that's just my experience.

[KooKooMan117]

1 minute ago, Windows7ge said:

The biggest issue you're going to have is that Windows 10 takes a record of the hardware you're plugged into. If you change out the MoBo, and CPU then just plug the HDD into the new motherboard Windows will say Preparing New Hardware then once you're back into Windows it'll tell you that windows is no longer genuine and you'll have to buy a new key...but that's just my experience.

Keys aren't a problem. i just dont want to take up more time by reinstalling windows.

[KooKooMan117]

2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

The biggest issue you're going to have is that Windows 10 takes a record of the hardware you're plugged into. If you change out the MoBo, and CPU then just plug the HDD into the new motherboard Windows will say Preparing New Hardware then once you're back into Windows it'll tell you that windows is no longer genuine and you'll have to buy a new key...but that's just my experience.

So youve done it before. Did the computer function properaly after the drivers were installed for the Mobo and cpu?

[Windows7ge]

Just now, KooKooMan117 said:

Keys aren't a problem. i just dont want to take up more time by reinstalling windows.

If that's the case it's hit or miss. I know motherboards install something unique to the HDD to allow it to work with the motherboard. Switching it to another motherboard has the potential to screw with this and it might work it might not. From my experience going into the BIOS and tinkering with the IDE/AHCI setting sometimes allows it to work but not always.

[Quaker]

Two cases:

1 - I upgraded my i5-3570K/H87(?) to an i5-6600/H170. Windows 10 booted up just fine. It seemed stable enough but I loaded the new mobo drivers anyway.

 

2- I upgraded my wife's old Athlon x4 5400+ (or something like that) to a new A8-7600 APU. Again Windows booted up just fine. It seemed to lack a few things, but installing the drivers for the mobo fixed things up.

 

Note. In my case I cloned my old OS SSD to a new M.2 SSD first, and for my wife's I cloned her old HDD to an SSD first. (Neither system has an HDD any more.)

 

In both cases, Windows 10 booted just fine without any reformat or anything. In both cases, of course, the initial boot was longer while Windows detected the change and loaded default drivers.

In both cases, though, the change was AMD to AMD or Intel to Intel. There might be more problems going from AMD to Intel or vice versa.