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[JohnnyFootball]

So my friend got a steal on a Ryzen 3900X and is wanting to replace his 8700K.

However, he wants to take the NVME with Windows 10 from his old system to his new one so that basically when we replace the mobo/CPU he can turn on the new system and it appear to be the same as the old.

However, I am all too aware that it is never that simple. I can’t see how doing such a thing won’t run into serious issues especially since it will be going from Intel to Ryzen.

my question to you guys is there a way to do what we are asking so that we can pop in the old NVME drive into the new system without having to do a fresh install? I’ve always done it that way myself, but my friend has so many programs and special settings that it would be a huge hassle and we want to try to avoid that.

can this be done? How so?

 

[SantaC]

Yes all you need to do is to install AMD chipset drivers for new motherboard.

 

[JimboJones]

I think macrium reflect can do the job, I think they have a free version for cloning drives.
I used it when transferring my stuff from a sata ssd to an nvme one.
Wasn't a intel to amd situation, just a drive swap but it should work, may have to download some specific drivers though afterwards.

 

[ANDS]

I feel like Windows hasn't cared about hardware for awhile now. We're long past that stupid shit where they assumed you were pirating software because you added a new harddrive.

 

[M1chl]

Yes it can, but you have to install the AMD drivers afterwards. It's going to be slow otherwise. I did that and it can be done, without some advance tweaks.

 

[Dream-Knife]

I would just recommend doing a fresh install. Installing windows isn't difficult, and it removes any bloat that has accumulated.

 

[chigstoke]

Windows does a pretty good job now of avoiding driver conflicts when migrating to new machines, replacing parts etc… on bootup. Because you’d have the boot data on the NVMe, should just be able to swap the drive to the new system and then install the AMD Chipset Drivers.

Can then go and uninstall Intel stuff as required.

 

[RoboFu]

You can but you may have to put in your Windows code again.

 

[GHG]

Having previously tried this and experiencing instability I'd suggest he backs up the files he needs and then doing a fresh install.

Backups to external storage or to the cloud is easy and quick these days so it's not much hassle.

 

[lostinblue]

Windows is not optimized for that to make a big difference in most cases, no compiler specific paths during install.

Still, I would do a full clone and then test.

 

[ratburger]

There was a recent HardwareUnboxed video on exactly this (Intel -> AMD):


So definitely a performance hit unless you do a clean install.

 

[daveonezero]

I’d say don’t do it.
Backup the drive to something else then format and clean install

Then move the things needed from the backup.

its worth doing occasionally and a big hardware change is a good reason to do it
And cleare a cleaner install.

 

[LazyParrot]

Gave it a try when I upgraded because I'm lazy as hell and it worked out fine.

Definitely not the best option, though.

 

[elliot5]

i went from 6700k to 5600x without an issue. I think MAYBE I had to contact microsoft customer support over the chatroom thing to activate my windows but I was still able to use it no problem. That chat took like 3 minutes they sent an email to me and I responded with the code inside it or whatever iirc.