Hello. I'm building a new PC and still have my M.2 drive from my old one. Will I run into any problems adding this one and the new one into my motherboard when I first turn it on. I wasn't able to wipe the m.2 before taking it out of my old build. It still has Windows 10 installed, will this boot into windows or will I have to wipe it and so a fresh install. I've only built a few PC's in my time but I've always used a new hard drive and never 2 m.2 drives. Thanks for reading.
2 m.2 drives but one already has Windows installed.
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It'll boot, it'll have to do a lot of work because it has to set itself up for the new motherboard (unlike versions of windows below 8, everything 8 and newer is more robust when changing motherboards so it won't vomit constant blue screens because of incompatible drivers and such) and all you'd have to do is make sure that the activation is still good.
If you want to install Windows to new drive, have only that drive installed first.
Add that old drive only after you have Windows installed.
Otherwise there's no guarantee where boot data of new Windows installation goes.
After that you can clear paritions of old drive.
While you could clear that old drive during Windows installation process, OS boot loader etc might still get installed on it.
(and if you later remove that old drive to make room for another new dsrive Windows wouldn't boot)
Add that old drive only after you have Windows installed.
Otherwise there's no guarantee where boot data of new Windows installation goes.
After that you can clear paritions of old drive.
While you could clear that old drive during Windows installation process, OS boot loader etc might still get installed on it.
(and if you later remove that old drive to make room for another new dsrive Windows wouldn't boot)
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I'd want to re-install Windows, pulling a boot drive from one PC and putting it in another without re-installing feels like I'm putting on used underwear.