Soldato
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I have had a copy of Win10 Pro for some years. In that time, it upgraded itself to Win11 pro, and I have moved it to a new motherboard and CPU several times. I don't have a Microsoft account, but as long as I use the original SSD that it's installed on, then moving it is no problem at all. Just pop the SSD in the new motherboard and off it goes.
Thing is, that I have always bought intel, until now. What I am not sure about, is whether the same approach will work if I change the motherboard to AMD?
There are three potential problems, I see, that the massive change in incompatible hardware may cause it to fail to boot to Windows, and or Microsoft may refuse to transfer the registration to such a totally different board. The third problem may well happen if it does fail, which is that I only have Win10 codes, so if I installed from scratch, will I be able to upgrade to 11 for free?
I mean, what I don't want here is a new PC with no way to get it working on the day.
Thing is, that I have always bought intel, until now. What I am not sure about, is whether the same approach will work if I change the motherboard to AMD?
There are three potential problems, I see, that the massive change in incompatible hardware may cause it to fail to boot to Windows, and or Microsoft may refuse to transfer the registration to such a totally different board. The third problem may well happen if it does fail, which is that I only have Win10 codes, so if I installed from scratch, will I be able to upgrade to 11 for free?
I mean, what I don't want here is a new PC with no way to get it working on the day.
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