Switching from Haswell to Ryzen. Help

Vorphyrion

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So I have an Haswell system right now with an i5-4440. I'll build a PC in June and i will go with the Ryzen 7 1700. I already have Win10 installed on my current SSD(dont have a key, Windows' upgrade). What should I do to run Win10 again in my AMD System ?
 
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I just installed my new hardware, formatted my drives and re-installed windows, I upgraded from windows 7 too, and just activated windows 10 again, no problem, your license is stored digitally, however, there is an option if it fails to activated that you can click on during the activation process that says "Ive recently changed my hardware"

The 2nd time I changed my motherboard only, I did have problems with activating Windows 10, I used the built in live chat service to...

Seanie280672

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I just installed my new hardware, formatted my drives and re-installed windows, I upgraded from windows 7 too, and just activated windows 10 again, no problem, your license is stored digitally, however, there is an option if it fails to activated that you can click on during the activation process that says "Ive recently changed my hardware"

The 2nd time I changed my motherboard only, I did have problems with activating Windows 10, I used the built in live chat service to contact Microsoft, the agent then dialled into my computer and all I had to do was show him the online receipt that proved I had recently purchased new hardware and he gave me a shiny new key there and then for Windows 10.

ps, I too upgraded from a Haswell system.
 
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