Desktop Computers

Anyone have experience swapping a windows installation over to a new generation of mainboard/cpu without a re-install? Just plugging the nvme drive from the old board into the new and yolo'ing it?

Back in the olden days this was a recipe for disaster and I've always gone with a new drive but I am finding some posts that it's doable these days.

Lambourne said:

Anyone have experience swapping a windows installation over to a new generation of mainboard/cpu without a re-install? Just plugging the nvme drive from the old board into the new and yolo'ing it?

Back in the olden days this was a recipe for disaster and I've always gone with a new drive but I am finding some posts that it's doable these days.

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Yes I've done it. Probably more trouble than it's worth if you just need files though. Also depending how long it's been having a boot disk on a nvme drive, might be wise to upgrade it and start fresh with no degradation and copy everything over you want then reformat the old drive.

Windows uses the TPM on your processor so you can't just plug and play old boot volume into new proc.