The Great Motherboard Shuffle [Long question]

[BurstSMG]

Hello, LinusTechTips forum, it's been a while since I've spoken on here, (like over a year?) but I need your help today.
This is for the future, and it's a really important question.

 

THE ISSUE
I can't reinstall my OS because certain school programs are proprietary as hell and will lose their data on me, and there's no way to switch it over to a new PC.

If I finally upgrade my FX-8320, DDR3 RAM and 970 Gaming motherboard to Ryzen, how the hell do I keep my OS?

 

SPECS

I have 16gb HyperX Fury 1866mhz RAM, a GTX 1070 SC, 750w 80+ Gold PSU, my aforementioned CPU and mobo, and a 4tb WD Red HDD and two 250-256gb SSDs as well as another (older) 2tb hard drive from Seagate. I run Windows 10 Pro (key bought off of Kinguin, I believe I can reuse it again if I upgrade and the system gets deactivated).

 

QUESTION
Is there any feasible way I can install drivers for the new parts and then upgrade it after once the time comes or am I stuck in a bottlenecked death trap?

 

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely, Burst

[aaronhare]

You can keep your Windows 10 licence by going into settings, Update & Security, Activation, and then Add an Account. You can get a full tutorial I found here: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-re-activate-windows-10-after-hardware-change Good luck!

[Cyracus]

Should be doable, boot into safe mode and remove any drivers related to the mobo, then get the new hardware set up and boot in and install drivers... I think that's all that it needs, can't say I have any personal experience though 

[BurstSMG]

Just now, Cyracus said:

Should be doable, boot into safe mode and remove any drivers related to the mobo, then get the new hardware set up and boot in and install drivers... I think that's all that it needs, can't say I have any personal experience though 

That's what I was thinking honestly. I'll make sure to have that written down. Thanks.
 

1 minute ago, AaronsDev said:

You can keep your Windows 10 licence by going into settings, Update & Security, Activation, and then Add an Account. You can get a full tutorial I found here: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-re-activate-windows-10-after-hardware-change Good luck!

I'll take a read of that, thanks.

[TechyBen]

I did boot up my old AMD system into an Intel one for file recovery/data recovery in a similar fashion... to find out I'd uninstalled the software anyhow (was a game, and I could not remember if I purchased or just a demo, but as I never found it, I could not email support for the download link for a game I cannot remember if I even did buy it!  )...

 

So it works, but personally I'd not use it often like that.  

[BurstSMG]

Just now, TechyBen said:

I did boot up my old AMD system into an Intel one for file recovery/data recovery in a similar fashion... to find out I'd uninstalled the software anyhow (was a game, and I could not remember if I purchased or just a demo, but as I never found it, I could not email support for the download link for a game I cannot remember if I even did buy it!  )...

 

So it works, but personally I'd not use it often like that.  

Not often, no, the main thing is to make sure I don't lose my government-mandated education work. hehe