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  #1  
Old July 18th 18, 09:21 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
tumppiw[_2_]
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Default Transferring existing Win10 installation

I wonder what would happen / Can I "clone" my exiting Win10SpringCU
(winver=17134.165) from my existing system?? (Windows is a free upgrade
from Win7HP)

Current system:
ASUS F1A75-M pro m/b (BIOS 2203) , AMD Llano A6-3650 boxed, 4*4096MB
(16GB) KHX1600C9D3/4GX,
Asus Radeon HD7790 DirectCU II OC 1GB,
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB (as C,

to my new system:
Intel Core i5-8600K,MSI B360 GAMING PLUS, G.Skill RipjawsV DDR4 3200 MHz
16 Gt (2 x 8 GB), MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI 4GT LP, Kingston A1000 240 Gt
(nVMe SSD)


Transfer or new/clean install (I have a Win10HomeCreatorsUpdate
USB-media)???

And I know everybody says: CLEAN INSTALL , but that would be a PITA (as
I've had/used/upgraded it since Win10 came out) and I don't have all my
softwares install media anymore...


I will be changing PSU, case, transferring MY HDDs (Samsung
HD154UI,Seagate ST300DM001,Verbatim(Toshiba)DT01ACA300




Rest of new system is:
Corsair CS650M, BitFenix Shinobi Window (haven't decided if I will
transfer opticalDiscDrive)
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  #2  
Old July 18th 18, 10:23 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Transferring existing Win10 installation

tumppiw wrote:
I wonder what would happen / Can I "clone" my exiting Win10SpringCU
(winver=17134.165) from my existing system?? (Windows is a free upgrade
from Win7HP)

Current system:
ASUS F1A75-M pro m/b (BIOS 2203) , AMD Llano A6-3650 boxed, 4*4096MB
(16GB) KHX1600C9D3/4GX,
Asus Radeon HD7790 DirectCU II OC 1GB,
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB (as C,

to my new system:
Intel Core i5-8600K,MSI B360 GAMING PLUS, G.Skill RipjawsV DDR4 3200 MHz
16 Gt (2 x 8 GB), MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI 4GT LP, Kingston A1000 240 Gt
(nVMe SSD)


Transfer or new/clean install (I have a Win10HomeCreatorsUpdate
USB-media)???

And I know everybody says: CLEAN INSTALL , but that would be a PITA (as
I've had/used/upgraded it since Win10 came out) and I don't have all my
softwares install media anymore...


I will be changing PSU, case, transferring MY HDDs (Samsung
HD154UI,Seagate ST300DM001,Verbatim(Toshiba)DT01ACA300




Rest of new system is:
Corsair CS650M, BitFenix Shinobi Window (haven't decided if I will
transfer opticalDiscDrive)


A clone of a Windows system is a snapshot of it at a point in time. When
you give it the return-to-life spark it just carries on from where it
was. And that means a particular hardware configuration, with all
relevant driver files, at a particular nanosecond of CPU-processing, all
caches as they were etc.
Your new system doesn't match the old; hence it will crash.

Sorry, pal, but you're forced into option 2; a clean install.

Ed

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Old July 18th 18, 10:40 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Transferring existing Win10 installation

On 07/18/2018 05:23 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
tumppiw wrote:
I wonder what would happen / Can I "clone" my exiting Win10SpringCU
(winver=17134.165) from my existing system?? (Windows is a free
upgrade from Win7HP)

Current system:
ASUS F1A75-M pro m/b (BIOS 2203) , AMD Llano A6-3650 boxed, 4*4096MB
(16GB) KHX1600C9D3/4GX,
Asus Radeon HD7790 DirectCU II OC 1GB,
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB (as C,

to my new system:
Intel Core i5-8600K,MSI B360 GAMING PLUS, G.Skill RipjawsV DDR4 3200
MHz 16 Gt (2 x 8 GB), MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI 4GT LP, Kingston A1000
240 Gt (nVMe SSD)


Transfer or new/clean install (I have a Win10HomeCreatorsUpdate
USB-media)???

And I know everybody says: CLEAN INSTALL , but that would be a PITA
(as I've had/used/upgraded it since Win10 came out) and I don't have
all my softwares install media anymore...


I will be changing PSU, case, transferring MY HDDs (Samsung
HD154UI,Seagate ST300DM001,Verbatim(Toshiba)DT01ACA300




Rest of new system is:
Corsair CS650M, BitFenix Shinobi Window (haven't decided if I will
transfer opticalDiscDrive)


A clone of a Windows system is a snapshot of it at a point in time. When
you give it the return-to-life spark it just carries on from where it
was. And that means a particular hardware configuration, with all
relevant driver files, at a particular nanosecond of CPU-processing, all
caches as they were etc.
Your new system doesn't match the old; hence it will crash.

Sorry, pal, but you're forced into option 2; a clean install.

Ed

And IIRC the digital entitlement license will not work since you changed
too many items. MS might be understanding over the phone but I'm not
sure.

Someone else might talk about the license activation issue??? Would
entering the old win7 key work? I thought I heard that MS will accept
that somehow.

I too think you're going to have to do a clean install.
You could load it and make an image of the virgin load and then try this
from EaseUS
https://www.easeus.com/pc-transfer/t...indows-10.html
You have nothing to lose and if it fails just put the image back.
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Old July 18th 18, 11:27 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Transferring existing Win10 installation

On 7/18/2018 2:40 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 07/18/2018 05:23 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
tumppiw wrote:
I wonder what would happen / Can I "clone" my exiting Win10SpringCU
(winver=17134.165) from my existing system?? (Windows is a free
upgrade from Win7HP)

Current system:
ASUS F1A75-M pro m/b (BIOS 2203) , AMD Llano A6-3650 boxed, 4*4096MB
(16GB) KHX1600C9D3/4GX,
Asus Radeon HD7790 DirectCU II OC 1GB,
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB (as C,

to my new system:
Intel Core i5-8600K,MSI B360 GAMING PLUS, G.Skill RipjawsV DDR4 3200
MHz 16 Gt (2 x 8 GB), MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI 4GT LP, Kingston A1000
240 Gt (nVMe SSD)


Transfer or new/clean install (I have a Win10HomeCreatorsUpdate
USB-media)???

And I know everybody says: CLEAN INSTALL , but that would be a PITA
(as I've had/used/upgraded it since Win10 came out) and I don't have
all my softwares install media anymore...


I will be changing PSU, case, transferring MY HDDs (Samsung
HD154UI,Seagate ST300DM001,Verbatim(Toshiba)DT01ACA300




Rest of new system is:
Corsair CS650M, BitFenix Shinobi Window (haven't decided if I will
transfer opticalDiscDrive)


A clone of a Windows system is a snapshot of it at a point in time.
When you give it the return-to-life spark it just carries on from
where it was. And that means a particular hardware configuration, with
all relevant driver files, at a particular nanosecond of
CPU-processing, all caches as they were etc.
Your new system doesn't match the old; hence it will crash.

Sorry, pal, but you're forced into option 2; a clean install.

Ed

And IIRC the digital entitlement license will not work since you changed
too many items. MS might be understanding over the phone but I'm not
sure.

Someone else might talk about the license activation issue??? Would
entering the old win7 key work? I thought I heard that MS will accept
that somehow.

I too think you're going to have to do a clean install.
You could load it and make an image of the virgin load and then try this
from EaseUS
https://www.easeus.com/pc-transfer/t...indows-10.html

You have nothing to lose and if it fails just put the image back.


This may be relevant:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ardware-change

FWIW, I've experimented moving a hard drive between systems.
Detected hardware changes.
Seemed to work fine.
I can't speak to activation, because all my test systems had
win10 digital entitlement.
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Old July 19th 18, 12:33 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Transferring existing Win10 installation

tumppiw wrote:

I wonder what would happen / Can I "clone" my exiting Win10SpringCU
(winver=17134.165) from my existing system?? (Windows is a free upgrade
from Win7HP)

Current system:
ASUS F1A75-M pro m/b (BIOS 2203) , AMD Llano A6-3650 boxed, 4*4096MB
(16GB) KHX1600C9D3/4GX,
Asus Radeon HD7790 DirectCU II OC 1GB,
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB (as C,

to my new system:
Intel Core i5-8600K,MSI B360 GAMING PLUS, G.Skill RipjawsV DDR4 3200 MHz
16 Gt (2 x 8 GB), MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI 4GT LP, Kingston A1000 240 Gt
(nVMe SSD)

Transfer or new/clean install (I have a Win10HomeCreatorsUpdate
USB-media)???


The license validation will fail. The two computers will have
completely different hardware fingerprints. You could the MS
troubleshooter after making the hardware changes (I don't know if
switching to a completely new host with different firmware signatures on
the mobo, HDDs, and CPU and video hardware changes will work):

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-r...ardware-change
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ardware-change
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonk.../#495b519e2771

Also, you are changing from AMD to Intel for CPU (which also means a
change in the chipset). You are changing video devices. The drivers
you have now won't work with the different hardware.
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Old July 19th 18, 03:17 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Transferring existing Win10 installation

tumppiw wrote:
I wonder what would happen / Can I "clone" my exiting Win10SpringCU
(winver=17134.165) from my existing system?? (Windows is a free upgrade
from Win7HP)

Current system:
ASUS F1A75-M pro m/b (BIOS 2203) , AMD Llano A6-3650 boxed, 4*4096MB
(16GB) KHX1600C9D3/4GX,
Asus Radeon HD7790 DirectCU II OC 1GB,
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB (as C,

to my new system:
Intel Core i5-8600K,MSI B360 GAMING PLUS, G.Skill RipjawsV DDR4 3200 MHz
16 Gt (2 x 8 GB), MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI 4GT LP, Kingston A1000 240 Gt
(nVMe SSD)


Transfer or new/clean install (I have a Win10HomeCreatorsUpdate
USB-media)???

And I know everybody says: CLEAN INSTALL , but that would be a PITA (as
I've had/used/upgraded it since Win10 came out) and I don't have all my
softwares install media anymore...


I will be changing PSU, case, transferring MY HDDs (Samsung
HD154UI,Seagate ST300DM001,Verbatim(Toshiba)DT01ACA300

Rest of new system is:
Corsair CS650M, BitFenix Shinobi Window (haven't decided if I will
transfer opticalDiscDrive)


Sysprep

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...s-installation

"To deploy a Windows image to different PCs, you have to first
generalize the image to remove computer-specific information
such as installed drivers and the computer security identifier (SID).

You can either use Sysprep by itself or Sysprep with an unattend
answer file to generalize your image and make it ready for deployment."

The following was a Windows To Go example (no Sysprep, runs on same machine).
The directory H: in this example, is a Macrium clone of C: with the
DiskID changed when the associated VHD is "attached" in Disk
Management.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com...p-by-step.aspx

dism /capture-image /imagefile:G:\install.wim /capturedir:H:\ /ScratchDir:G:\Scratch
/name:"AnyName" /compress:none /checkintegrity /verify /bootable

# ... various disk preparation steps, like having an NTFS target
# for the operation, not shown here.

dism /apply-image /imagefile:G:\install.wim /index:1 /applydir:W:\

Some tools for the job, come in Windows WADK, which can be
a multi-gigabyte download. Perhaps Sysprep or ImageX would
be examples of such tools only in WADK. DISM is available
in the OS itself.

I don't know how to do all the steps, but there's probably
a way to do this. The system will come up with a different
SID, and the license key issue will have to be resolved
on the new 8600K system. You might be able to buy a
key for example, from the Microsoft store, for $100 or
$150, and use the key change dialog to enter it.

The idea would be, you don't work on C: directly.
Some separate read/write volume will need to be
worked on separately, as an "offline" thing. In my
example, this was H: when I was doing a Windows To Go
experiment. But you don't want Windows To Go for
this. I suspect some of the same steps are required
though.

When the new OS comes up, it won't need a license key
right away. There should be a 30 day period during
which it indicates license status of "Notification",
rather than "Licensed". If you succeed in entering
a key into the "prepared" OS on the new hard drive,
then this command will indicate "Licensed".

slmgr /dlv

The Sysprep should be handy, for preventing the new
OS from looking "too identical" to the old OS.

HTH,
Paul
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Old July 19th 18, 03:24 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Paul wrote:
tumppiw wrote:
I wonder what would happen / Can I "clone" my exiting Win10SpringCU
(winver=17134.165) from my existing system?? (Windows is a free
upgrade from Win7HP)

Current system:
ASUS F1A75-M pro m/b (BIOS 2203) , AMD Llano A6-3650 boxed, 4*4096MB
(16GB) KHX1600C9D3/4GX,
Asus Radeon HD7790 DirectCU II OC 1GB,
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB (as C,

to my new system:
Intel Core i5-8600K,MSI B360 GAMING PLUS, G.Skill RipjawsV DDR4 3200
MHz 16 Gt (2 x 8 GB), MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI 4GT LP, Kingston A1000
240 Gt (nVMe SSD)


Transfer or new/clean install (I have a Win10HomeCreatorsUpdate
USB-media)???

And I know everybody says: CLEAN INSTALL , but that would be a PITA
(as I've had/used/upgraded it since Win10 came out) and I don't have
all my softwares install media anymore...


I will be changing PSU, case, transferring MY HDDs (Samsung
HD154UI,Seagate ST300DM001,Verbatim(Toshiba)DT01ACA300

Rest of new system is:
Corsair CS650M, BitFenix Shinobi Window (haven't decided if I will
transfer opticalDiscDrive)



Now, if I'd Googled a bit longer, I would have found an
even shorter answer.

https://www.tenforums.com/pc-custom-...te-new-pc.html

%windir%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown

I gather what Kari is doing there, is cloning the old
drive to a new hard drive. The hardest part will be
figuring out where Kari is getting his Sysprep command from.

So just doing that to the clone, is supposed to be
enough. It won't be licensed. It will likely discover
drivers as it starts up in Out Of Box state.

By working with clones, there is no risk of damaging
the existing system.

A bit of "voice of experience" here. Over the years
I've done various things like this. And the lesson I
learned is:

Don't take all the hardware apart on the source system.

Without installing the hardware in a new computer case,
bring up the new hardware on your kitchen table. Once
you're satisfied that the Sysprepped disk works
properly, *only then* move to a computer case.

I've had a couple cases, where I moved new hardware into
a computer case, only to discover my "new" "crafted"
OS image was wrong, and I needed to go back to the
old system and re-generate an OS image. Which is a
pain. And now I no longer do stuff that dumb. I
leave the old system in an assembled state, until
I'm completely sure that the "recipe" I used,
actually "bakes a complete cake".

Paul
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Old July 19th 18, 03:37 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Something a bout the format of your post makes it basically illegible to
me, too much effort to read. So I haven't bothered.

True Image Home PC Backup & Recovery Plus is meant for what I imagine
you want to do. There is a competitor too, I forget the name**. I
haven't used either, but the design makes sense to me. Suppposed to be
able to copy your whole system to different hardware.

**It might be Paragon Backup and Recovery, but the version that does
what you want is not free.


Even if you needed a whole new license, I presume what you want is to
not have to re-9install things and set settings individually.


In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 18 Jul 2018 23:21:37 +0300, tumppiw
wrote:

I wonder what would happen / Can I "clone" my exiting Win10SpringCU
(winver=17134.165) from my existing system?? (Windows is a free upgrade
from Win7HP)

Current system:
ASUS F1A75-M pro m/b (BIOS 2203) , AMD Llano A6-3650 boxed, 4*4096MB
(16GB) KHX1600C9D3/4GX,
Asus Radeon HD7790 DirectCU II OC 1GB,
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB (as C,

to my new system:
Intel Core i5-8600K,MSI B360 GAMING PLUS, G.Skill RipjawsV DDR4 3200 MHz
16 Gt (2 x 8 GB), MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI 4GT LP, Kingston A1000 240 Gt
(nVMe SSD)


Transfer or new/clean install (I have a Win10HomeCreatorsUpdate
USB-media)???

And I know everybody says: CLEAN INSTALL , but that would be a PITA (as
I've had/used/upgraded it since Win10 came out) and I don't have all my
softwares install media anymore...


I will be changing PSU, case, transferring MY HDDs (Samsung
HD154UI,Seagate ST300DM001,Verbatim(Toshiba)DT01ACA300




Rest of new system is:
Corsair CS650M, BitFenix Shinobi Window (haven't decided if I will
transfer opticalDiscDrive)


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Old July 19th 18, 03:43 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Micky
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Default Transferring existing Win10 installation

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 18 Jul 2018 23:21:37 +0300, tumppiw
wrote:

I wonder what would happen / Can I "clone" my exiting Win10SpringCU
(winver=17134.165) from my existing system?? (Windows is a free upgrade
from Win7HP)


Again, assuming I guessed correctly what you want, there are now two
more programs that say they do this:

https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2278661,00.asp

What the first one does iirc is put in generic drivers at the start of
the install and then towards the end change to the correct ones for the
hardware involved. Other than that it copies all the files instead of
installing Windows.

The drivers are the interface between windows and the hardware.
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Old July 19th 18, 03:52 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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micky wrote:
Something a bout the format of your post makes it basically illegible to
me, too much effort to read. So I haven't bothered.

True Image Home PC Backup & Recovery Plus is meant for what I imagine
you want to do. There is a competitor too, I forget the name**. I
haven't used either, but the design makes sense to me. Suppposed to be
able to copy your whole system to different hardware.

**It might be Paragon Backup and Recovery, but the version that does
what you want is not free.


Even if you needed a whole new license, I presume what you want is to
not have to re-9install things and set settings individually.


I think you'd need sysprep before moving the disk
to the new machine. The program is already on C:
in its own folder.

https://s33.postimg.cc/aalbw1adr/sysprep.gif

Maybe:

1) Clone old disk to new disk on old machine.
2) Insert only new disk in old machine. Boot. Sysprep.
Shutdown. Don't boot old machine with new disk again
at this point.
3) Start new disk on new machine.
Verify identifiers in "slmgr /dlv" are different.
Verify account SIDs are different too. Try this on
both the old machine and the new machine. It's OK
to have the same "John Doe" on the two machines,
but the strings of numbers should be different.

wmic useraccount get name,sid

HTH,
Paul

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Old July 19th 18, 07:35 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Paul wrote:

Now, if I'd Googled a bit longer, I would have found an
even shorter answer.

https://www.tenforums.com/pc-custom-...te-new-pc.html


Old thread...unfortunate that Kari didn't come back and update his comments
after MSFT changed the activation server circa 1607 which also introduced
the MSA requirements(in use prior to hardware change) for using the
Activation Troubleshooter.

Also, the OP left out one important bit of information
- OEM Win7HP or Retail Win7HP = o/s use for the Win10 free upgrade
- one transferable, the other not.


In the op's case, it would be a good idea regardless of the method to have
and use an MSA on the device prior to doing anything. Failure or success is
always possible, but less so if one follows MSFT's reason for using an MSA
for activation troubleshooting.


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Old July 19th 18, 07:50 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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....w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
Paul wrote:

Now, if I'd Googled a bit longer, I would have found an
even shorter answer.

https://www.tenforums.com/pc-custom-...te-new-pc.html



Old thread...unfortunate that Kari didn't come back and update his
comments after MSFT changed the activation server circa 1607 which also
introduced the MSA requirements(in use prior to hardware change) for
using the Activation Troubleshooter.

Also, the OP left out one important bit of information
- OEM Win7HP or Retail Win7HP = o/s use for the Win10 free upgrade
- one transferable, the other not.


In the op's case, it would be a good idea regardless of the method to
have and use an MSA on the device prior to doing anything. Failure or
success is always possible, but less so if one follows MSFT's reason for
using an MSA for activation troubleshooting.



The objective is, to carry the OPs Win10 OS install,
installed programs and data, to a new machine.

That's what I'm in the process of testing right now.

I'll be testing this command, on a clone of the source,
and doing it on the clone itself.

%windir%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown

I don't think the idea is to transfer the license. The
license is a separate issue the OP will have to deal
with himself.

While it's nice to fully discuss all the permutations and
combinations, I hardly ever find anyone wielding Retail Win7HP
in a group. Users are cost sensitive, and hardly anyone
opts for Retail SKUs, when a System Build OEM is "a dollar cheaper".

Sure, there are some license transfer options involving
an MSA. You'd need to Google your ass off, to find
out how in practice the customers are treated. I haven't
heard one description yet, of someone actually following
up on that option (transferring a Win10 license which
violates the "usual rules"). It's supposed to be possible,
but I'd need to read a couple accounts of it, to believe
it's smooth and glossy and not a PITA.

I have seen some weird stuff here, so I really cannot
discount any customer experience when it comes to
licensing. I have an install of Win10, that didn't have
a qualifying license for free upgrade (I cannot figure
out how or why it activated). I have a VM that's been
running way too long, without complaint. If there are
rules, other than not allowing you to use the Personalize
menu, I don't know what those rules might actually be.

Paul
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Old July 19th 18, 11:20 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Paul wrote:
...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
Paul wrote:

Now, if I'd Googled a bit longer, I would have found an
even shorter answer.

https://www.tenforums.com/pc-custom-...te-new-pc.html




Old thread...unfortunate that Kari didn't come back and update his
comments after MSFT changed the activation server circa 1607 which
also introduced the MSA requirements(in use prior to hardware change)
for using the Activation Troubleshooter.

Also, the OP left out one important bit of information
- OEM Win7HP or Retail Win7HP = o/s use for the Win10 free upgrade
- one transferable, the other not.


In the op's case, it would be a good idea regardless of the method to
have and use an MSA on the device prior to doing anything. Failure or
success is always possible, but less so if one follows MSFT's reason
for using an MSA for activation troubleshooting.



The objective is, to carry the OPs Win10 OS install,
installed programs and data, to a new machine.

That's what I'm in the process of testing right now.

I'll be testing this command, on a clone of the source,
and doing it on the clone itself.

%windir%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown

I don't think the idea is to transfer the license. The
license is a separate issue the OP will have to deal
with himself.

While it's nice to fully discuss all the permutations and
combinations, I hardly ever find anyone wielding Retail Win7HP
in a group. Users are cost sensitive, and hardly anyone
opts for Retail SKUs, when a System Build OEM is "a dollar cheaper".

Sure, there are some license transfer options involving
an MSA. You'd need to Google your ass off, to find
out how in practice the customers are treated. I haven't
heard one description yet, of someone actually following
up on that option (transferring a Win10 license which
violates the "usual rules"). It's supposed to be possible,
but I'd need to read a couple accounts of it, to believe
it's smooth and glossy and not a PITA.

I have seen some weird stuff here, so I really cannot
discount any customer experience when it comes to
licensing. I have an install of Win10, that didn't have
a qualifying license for free upgrade (I cannot figure
out how or why it activated). I have a VM that's been
running way too long, without complaint. If there are
rules, other than not allowing you to use the Personalize
menu, I don't know what those rules might actually be.

Paul


And fat chance of it working.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/...0-version-1709

This package is half-installed, and the remaining registry
entries seem to choke sysprep.

Windows.MiracastView_6.3.0.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1 h2txyewy

Still haven't managed to stop it.

And a DISM /restore-health does... nothing.

Paul
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Old July 19th 18, 11:35 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
SC Tom[_3_]
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Default Transferring existing Win10 installation



"tumppiw" wrote in message
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I wonder what would happen / Can I "clone" my exiting Win10SpringCU
(winver=17134.165) from my existing system?? (Windows is a free upgrade
from Win7HP)

Current system:
ASUS F1A75-M pro m/b (BIOS 2203) , AMD Llano A6-3650 boxed, 4*4096MB
(16GB) KHX1600C9D3/4GX,
Asus Radeon HD7790 DirectCU II OC 1GB,
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB (as C,

to my new system:
Intel Core i5-8600K,MSI B360 GAMING PLUS, G.Skill RipjawsV DDR4 3200 MHz
16 Gt (2 x 8 GB), MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI 4GT LP, Kingston A1000 240 Gt
(nVMe SSD)


Transfer or new/clean install (I have a Win10HomeCreatorsUpdate
USB-media)???

And I know everybody says: CLEAN INSTALL , but that would be a PITA (as
I've had/used/upgraded it since Win10 came out) and I don't have all my
softwares install media anymore...


I will be changing PSU, case, transferring MY HDDs (Samsung
HD154UI,Seagate ST300DM001,Verbatim(Toshiba)DT01ACA300




Rest of new system is:
Corsair CS650M, BitFenix Shinobi Window (haven't decided if I will
transfer opticalDiscDrive)


I have done it successfully on two different PC's recently (same version of
Windows10), but they were both going from AMD to AMD. I think your biggest
problem will be going from AMD to Intel.

On both PC's, I cloned the HDD on the old set-up, then put that cloned drive
in the new set-up, and W10 booted right up, then searched for new drivers.
After about 10 minutes and 1 or 2 reboots, they settled down and continue
functioning as they should :-)

The only problem I ran into was that one of them booted up in IDE mode
instead of AHCI. Took me a few Google minutes to find the simple solution
for that.
--

SC Tom


 




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