RIG upgrade

[ryane]

So I'm selling off my old rig to fund my upgrade from an i5 4690k to i7 7700k. However, I do plan on keeping my ssds and HDDs together with my copy of Win10 on it. I know that installation of the OS is motherboard bound so I'm wondering how is the process going to be? I've read online that I would need to deactivate windows and reactivate it after installation on my new rig but since it was from the free update a year ago, is this still doable and how? What about the OS that was installed on my current ssd?

[themctipers]

the legal route: buy a windows 10 dvd and use that

the shady route: buy a windows 10 key and use that

the illegal route: call microsoft and say im disabled please give me free windows 10, or just stuff with a KMS activator

 

you should reinstall with that upgrade though, windows doesn't like to be jumped from hardware to hardware and it'll just make it unbootable someday.

[ryane]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

the legal route: buy a windows 10 dvd and use that

the shady route: buy a windows 10 key and use that

the illegal route: call microsoft and say im disabled please give me free windows 10, or just stuff with a KMS activator

 

you should reinstall with that upgrade though, windows doesn't like to be jumped from hardware to hardware and it'll just make it unbootable someday.

I do plan on keeping my ssds and all that though. Won't that be a problem if I reinstall or do I just back up?

[themctipers]

Just now, ryane said:

I do plan on keeping my ssds and all that though. Won't that be a problem if I reinstall or do I just back up?

existing partitions and drives that aren't the boot drive (or bootloader if you messed with that) should be left alone unless you want to format (and kill all data on it)

 

what I recommend is to backup all the important data on your boot drive, and if you're scared you forgot something then make a disk image of your drive (NOT NECESSARY), and then boot from a windows install USB and install windows (after you got your new parts) 

[ryane]

18 hours ago, themctipers said:

existing partitions and drives that aren't the boot drive (or bootloader if you messed with that) should be left alone unless you want to format (and kill all data on it)

 

what I recommend is to backup all the important data on your boot drive, and if you're scared you forgot something then make a disk image of your drive (NOT NECESSARY), and then boot from a windows install USB and install windows (after you got your new parts) 

So essentially I would just be overwriting the current boot drive but I would just save my stuff before I do that?

[themctipers]

3 hours ago, ryane said:

So essentially I would just be overwriting the current boot drive but I would just save my stuff before I do that?

Yes. Unless you want to remove all of your files on that drive aswell..

[The_Tempo_Golem]

3 hours ago, ryane said:

So essentially I would just be overwriting the current boot drive but I would just save my stuff before I do that?

if you sign in on windows 10 it links your key to your account and then you can move your ssd's over just fine just dont do it too often

 

[ryane]

On 7/13/2017 at 1:50 AM, That Minecraft Player said:

if you sign in on windows 10 it links your key to your account and then you can move your ssd's over just fine just dont do it too often

 

I thought it binds to the motherboard as well?

[The_Tempo_Golem]

On 7/14/2017 at 10:25 AM, ryane said:

I thought it binds to the motherboard as well?

not with windows 10 i have moved my os between mobos at lease 10 times and the only time i had a problem was when i tried to do it 4 times in 2 days