Upgrading CPU, MOBO, RAM and GPU What do I do with windows?

[ollievanny]

So I’ve bought new components for my pc and have read a fresh windows install is recommended, especially as I’m going from an AMD to Intel CPU. I don’t know what I’m doing with BIOS as my PC was a prebuilt system. So I’d like someone to tell me what to do when it comes to reinstalling and backing up my current windows 10 install. I want to keep the new install as similar as possible the old one but I’m not too sure how to. I have the code for my windows 10 if that help which I’m assuming it will. If someone could tell me what I need to do it would be greatly appreciated, here are the before and after specs. Cheers

Previous --> New
AMD Athlon X4 860K --> Intel i5 6400
Gigabyte ga-f2a78mhd2. --> MSI b150m mortar
8gb ddr3 (don’t know make or speed). --> HyperX fury 16gb DDR4 2133MHz
Zotac GTX 960 2gb --> EVGA GTX 1060 6GB SC
KINGSTON SSD 120GB (has windows on it)
1tb Seagate drive.
2tb hitachi drive.
500W EVGA PSU.

 

[prince2206]

Do you just want to backup your files? just copy them to a usb stick?

Then check whether your windows 10 is tied to your microsoft account: settings>update and security>activation

then you can just sign in when reinstalling- its used for hardware upgrades like what you are doing.

 

[ollievanny]

Do you just want to backup your files? just copy them to a usb stick?

Then check whether your windows 10 is tied to your microsoft account: settings>update and security>activation

then you can just sign in when reinstalling- its used for hardware upgrades like what you are doing.

So I'm planning on copying everything from my SSD to one of my hard drives( I'm assuming it'll work on a hard drive rather than a USB stick?).
Won't all of the drivers and whatever is is in the windows files be for my old hardware too?
But will I be able to restore to that from the BIOS/setup when I install the new mobo? And if so how? Or do i need to save a backup to my microsoft account in settings?

Sorry for being a noob and thanks for the answer.

 

[lperreault21]

get all of your files and put on HDD, wipe the ssd and reinstall windows 10