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Old July 22nd 18, 01:10 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ed Cryer[_2_]
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Default 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



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