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Transferring SSD from old PC to new PC (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Indolomnir-@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Hi all,

I recently purchased a new PC (prebuilt, yes I know I know) as an upgrade from my old PC. It will be arriving tomorrow and I'd like to transfer over the SSD which I had installed in my old PC into this one. The SSD in question has only games and some random files on it, no operating system or anything like that. What I'd like to know is, is there anything special I need to do to ensure compatibility? Can I simply just plug it in and I'm good? Do I need to wipe the drive and then treat it like I'm installing a brand new SSD out of the box?

By the way the operating system installed on the new drive is Windows 11 while my old OS was windows 10. I'm also going from an AMD to Intel CPU. I don't know if any of that matter but I figure more information is always good.

I appreciate any help in this matter!

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

If it's just a data drive, all you need to do is move it to the new computer and you will be able to access all of your files. The games may have to be reinstalled since they could be missing dependencies and registry entries.

Just for the fun of it, I tried moving the boot drive from my old desktop that had an i7-950 and a GTX 560ti to my new desktop with a Ryzen 1950x and an RX-580 and it booted up and ran just fine. I was running Linux on it though. Windows would probably have to be reactivated, if it booted at all.