Win XP Dual Boot with Win 10

Hello
Im not sure which would be the best way to do this, Google is good most of the time but I am getting nowhere apart from getting more stress and a headache.

I have Win XP with SP2 already loaded and set up just right on a sata drive, Ive bought a new motherboard, cpu and ram and solid state drive (Ive never used ssd). Could I use an existing win10 backup and redeploy this with new mmb drivers on new ssd. I plan to use a couple of SATA drives for backup and additional storage on new PC or would it be better to start fresh with both. Can someone Please point me in the right direction

New PC is
New PC (Not Built yet)Asus_M5A78L-M-PLUS-USB3AMD X8 Core FX-8350 4.0Ghz2x8GB TEAM Gold branded RAM DDR3Samsung Evo Solid State Drive 250GBAdditional SATA drives in later?

Thank you
Smokes

Welcome to the forum the win10 backup won't work the drivers will all be wrong and it won't activate as it's a new system so you need to buy a new copy of Windows and do a clean install

Samuria said:

Welcome to the forum the win10 backup won't work the drivers will all be wrong and it won't activate as it's a new system so you need to buy a new copy of Windows and do a clean install

Thanks for the reply, A new copy of windows? I did not think it would have come to this. When I said backup I meant redeploy the backup with new drivers. I dont think its fair or right to pay MS again for something ive already paid for, to say Im slightly annoyed is an understatement.

Smokes68 said:

Thanks for the reply, A new copy of windows? I did not think it would have come to this. When I said backup I meant redeploy the backup with new drivers. I dont think its fair or right to pay MS again for something ive already paid for, to say Im slightly annoyed is an understatement.

Samuria is mistaken.

First, Windows 10 is the most tolerant OS to date of being moved to a new computer. I've done it twice now. The latest was when my step-daughters laptop failed and needed to be sent in for repair. I made an image backup of her laptop to an SSD. Installed that SSD in a spare laptop - completely different make and model, you get a screen at the first bootup that says installing new devices and it just moves on from there. When she got her original laptop back from the manufacturer, I moved the SSD from the spare laptop back to hers.

Also, when I upgraded my desktop, I gave my old desktop to my father in law and moved the HDD from his original computer to my old computer with no issues. The only problem you will have is if you are moving between a legacy BIOS computer to/from a UEFI computer, or moving between IDE SATA to/from AHCI SATA disk controller setting.

Second, Microsoft has provided a way to move the license for Windows 10 to a new computer and activate Windows:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...troubleshooter

Read the last link in the list "You made a significant hardware change"

And

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20530

Hello NavyLCDR
Thanks for the reply, this looks more promising I have just went to put together new PC, I cant believe that Asus have not included a pin headder diagram for front panel connectors! The manual says use Q code, this may be ok for those who have these apps on their phones. I give up for today and will go back to this next week.
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NavyLCDR

Smokes68 said:

I cant believe that Asus have not included a pin headder diagram for front panel connectors!

Which motherboard?

easy enough to find the manual with pinouts for the front panel on the ASUS support website - see image for address.

NavyLCDR said:

Which motherboard?

Asus_M5A78L-M-PLUS-USB3

Fafhrd said:

easy enough to find the manual with pinouts for the front panel on the ASUS support website - see image for address.

Thank you both for replying

Smokes68 said:

Asus_M5A78L-M-PLUS-USB3

Thank you both for replying

You are correct, the manual does leave some things to be desired. Here you go:
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...inition_en.pdf