- Dec 16, 2015
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Hello all,
I am in the middle of considering upgrade possibilities for myself and my wife. One of those possibilities is building a Ryzen build for myself and moving my wife into my current FX 8350 desktop from her current A6/FM1 chipset desktop. I have 2 SSDs and one HDD (1 SSD contains Win7 and programs, 1 SSD and HDD contains primarily games) while the wife has 2 HDDs (1 with Win7 and programs, the other with games). Both are fully licensed copies; I still retain both original DVDs and activation keys.
My question is: Would it be possible to move those drives into their potential new homes while retaining all programs as installed, i.e. without having to reinstall them or otherwise lose them? Or do all installed programs become uninstalled regardless since they'd be looking at a new motherboard? I understand that I'd need to reactivate Windows in any case since there would be a hardware change and in my case, I understand I'd need to upgrade to Win10, which would be done prior to a potential move of drives to a Ryzen build. The potential loss of games wouldn't be a big deal to either one of us if they wouldn't move over.
Any insight (and any missed information on my part) would be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance, and have a great one!
I am in the middle of considering upgrade possibilities for myself and my wife. One of those possibilities is building a Ryzen build for myself and moving my wife into my current FX 8350 desktop from her current A6/FM1 chipset desktop. I have 2 SSDs and one HDD (1 SSD contains Win7 and programs, 1 SSD and HDD contains primarily games) while the wife has 2 HDDs (1 with Win7 and programs, the other with games). Both are fully licensed copies; I still retain both original DVDs and activation keys.
My question is: Would it be possible to move those drives into their potential new homes while retaining all programs as installed, i.e. without having to reinstall them or otherwise lose them? Or do all installed programs become uninstalled regardless since they'd be looking at a new motherboard? I understand that I'd need to reactivate Windows in any case since there would be a hardware change and in my case, I understand I'd need to upgrade to Win10, which would be done prior to a potential move of drives to a Ryzen build. The potential loss of games wouldn't be a big deal to either one of us if they wouldn't move over.
Any insight (and any missed information on my part) would be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance, and have a great one!
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