Is "Reset windows" with "keep personal files" sufficient for motherboard change?

blazed · 7 Dec 2019 at 12:48

Just swapped out my motherboard,

Was wondering if reset windows but keep personal files is good enough for restarting windows and not having any compatiblitly or stability issues, as opposed to a USB boot clean install which is more of a hassle for me right now?

blazed · 7 Dec 2019 at 13:20

Just to clarify im talking about the "hold shift + press restart button" option where, it does download and install the whole windows from fresh. It has two options "delete everything and reinstall windows" or "keep personal files and reinstall windows" these are things like photos and documents, etc.

Or is it substantially better to do a USB boot and clean install?

Can you help refresh my memory, can I create a bootable windows installer on a portable usb HDD if I already have files on the HDD?

Armageus · 7 Dec 2019 at 13:29

Why not just try it without resetting or reinstalling anything - Windows 7 onwards have always been pretty good at surviving some major hardware changes without issue in my experience

Jim99 · 7 Dec 2019 at 16:28

Yeah I moved from Intel to AMD without any hiccups using the same boot drive.