upgrading but can I use win 7 on old ssd

rockinrick2012

rockinrick2012

rockinrick2012

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Hi All

This may sound a bit odd, but I currently sorting out upgrading my processor, motherboard, memory, and will be getting a new ssd, but what I wanted to know was can I still boot win 7 from the old ssd with the new bits installed.

Basically I use the computer 6 days a week, so Sunday is my only spare day and last time when I upgraded my hd to an ssd in short I unplugged the old one, starting setting up the new one, then when done unplugged it and put the old one back until the new one had everything I needed on it.

This time however it's the main bits, so didn't know if I could just swap out the mb, pro and ram, but plug the old ssd in and boot from there. It would just makes life so much easier if I could do that until the new ssd is sorted, without having to worry about missing something, that I suddenly find I need and haven't got.

I hope I made that clear :-)

:-) Richard
 
Is it ideal and universally recommended? No.

But I can tell you I do this often, and have major problems less than 5% of the time.
 
20 minutes for fresh windows install + maybe 2 hours on all updates is still considerably less than hours of troubleshooting if you get some random issue.
 
I should add that the vast, vast majority of cases where there is a problem, it will be immediately obvious e.g. not booting at all.

If the system boots and applies updates for hardware changes successfully, you're pretty much good to go.
 
yes you can.depends on the chipsets of each board,some are happy and windows will sort out the drivers for you and some throw a bootloop and a clean install is needed,imo I would try and see first

ive swapped from a few boards without reinstalling and no ill effects
 
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