How to move windows 10

[Isaac_Hope55]

Alright. I am probably the biggest pc noob on this sight so forgive me for my bad spelling and stupidity please.

so my problem is this. i have a pc and i'm about to buy parts for a new one but i'm trying to use the same psu, optical drive and hdd from the old one, in the new build and buy a spare psu and hdd to go with the other m/o ram cpu and gpu so i can sell it.

I have a 1tb hdd and i'm getting another plus a 250 gb ssd for windows 10 and some steam games. This is my first pc build where i have to deal with softwear things like a bios. i want to move my windows 10, steam and a few other things to my new ssd then the rest of my files to my new hdd. I want to old hdd to keep a copy of windows and be able to plug it into the second pc i intend to sell without having to set the pc up again. What do i do.

 

P.S As you can probably tell i'm really lazy and want to get out of doing as much installing as possible.

 

specs of new pc

i5 6600k

MSI Z170 A SLI Plus

Thermaltake riing cpu cooler

MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2gb

samsung 750 evo 120gb ssd

samsung 1tb baracuda

Corsair CS650M

[Electronics Wizardy]

If your moving to a new system you normally have to reinstall as you need differnt drives and the boot loaders are different. What is the specs of your old system.

 

If you want to transfer files look at macrum reflect.

[SageOfSpice]

The lazy way is moving your files, games, and whatever else onto a storage device and reinstalling your OS on the new drive.

 

The HARD way is going through the registry, selectively exporting relevant keys, noting the installation directories, copying the program files, ect, ect, ect.

 

You pretty much have to do this the way you don't want to.

[Isaac_Hope55]

current specs are

i5 4460 haswell

gainward 750ti (yes thats its brand)

gigabyte b85m - hd3

1tb samsung barracuda

using the same psu but going to put a thermaltake 550 watt with this stuff to sell

8 gb ddr3 ram (forgot to mention 16 gb ddr4 in the new build)

stock cpu cooler

[SageOfSpice]

Oh yeah, and don't sell your damn HDD without wiping that shit thoroughly unless you want to give people all your information.

[Isaac_Hope55]

yeh im selling it to a friend and it doesn't have much on it

 

so im thinking of setting up both pcs with both hdds and the new ssd in the new build. installing the os on the new ssd then moving everything else that i need to the new hdd. then can i out the old hdd in the old pc with nothing on it buy a install of my os. will that work?