Moving to a new motherboard/cpu

[octafish]

Currently running a server with a Z10PE-D16 WS motherboard with twin Zeon E5-2640's and the OS (W10) on NVMe. I built it 8 years ago and its showing its age a bit and won't upgrade to W11, so have a Z13PE-D16 and planning on twin 5512U's plus new 5600 rdimms. Question is if I take the old NVMe and put it on the new motherboard, will Windows recognise it?

I have made backups and was planning to make a clone with a new NVMe just in case (and use a faster Crucial T700 2Tb drive), just don't want to have to start from scratch as it would be a major job reinstalling all the apps on the existing one.

 

[5abr3]

I did something vaguely similar last year moving from an i6700k to a 7800x3d, it will depend somewhat on the license type is my understanding. I was running Retail W10 Pro (originally W7 retail license). If you gave OEM instead of retail it may not let you reactivate as OEM licenses are not transferable.

when I did it Windows had a moan about activation but I went through the activation flow and that eventually got me to the my MS account and I just had to tell it it was the same computer as my old build.

Surprisingly painless in terms of drivers too.

 

[octafish]

Thanks. I am pretty sure it's a retail license for W10, I still have the license key, but its a while ago. I guess the only way to find out is to try it, once I've cloned the disk.

 

[5abr3]

Good luck!

My plan is to clone then migrate to W11 at some point too