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Transferring existing Win10 installation
From: Ed Cryer
philo wrote: On 07/18/2018 04:23 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 Not the case. I have transferred existing Win10 installations (many times)into new hardware and it has always re-configured with no problem. It is superior to any previous version of Windows in it's ability to do that. It will not be activated however and a new license will be needed. I feel greatly cheered by your comments; and all the others of the same ilk. I didn't know it could be done without lots of trouble, and, not least, problems cropping up one by one for ages after transfer. Experience is the best teacher. If I bought a new OEM box with Win10 installed, and (of course) properly licensed, then it looks as if I could transfer from another box by using simple clone-and-restore completely for free; and problem-free! Ed --- Internet Rex 2.31 * Origin: The gateway at Omicron Theta/2 (1:261/20.119) |
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