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Issues putting Win10 Pro NVMe to newer laptop?
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I am running Windows 10 Pro 21H1 on an older HP 15-f100dx laptop. It has CD/DVD drive, 1 regular USB and 2 super speed USB ports along with HDMI, and has touch screen. Internal has a 1TB SSD HD that I installed myself after cloning from regular SATA HDD (mechanical) to SSD using an external USB3 drive enclosure. Running very well.
I used EaseUS Partition Manager to clone that drive
I bought a Samsung 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD hard drive and fit it in a NVMe drive enclosure NVMe to USB3 and used the EaseUS Partition Manager and cloned the internal hard drive (SSD SATA) to the NVMe 1TB Samsung last night Went well and this morning I changed the desktop background on my laptop, which would effect the internal SSD HD and rebooted. During shutdown I plugged in the USB NVMe drive enclosure into one of my super speed USB3 drive ports and had set the bios to first boot from USB-Hard drive in the boot order. It went very well and booted into the NVMe drive with the desktop that showed it was from the external drive.
So the drive is working fine THIS computer does not have any NVMe internal place to plug in a NVMe drive, so my question is as follows:
I am looking at getting a HP 15-dy2132wm laptop like what my wife has for her personal and one for her business (2 separate laptops. I used a batch file I found from a link in this forum to make a backup of ALL the drivers of her laptop, the HP 15-dy2132wm. This batch file will also allow me to install all the drivers of that particular HD, which I have done on her personal HP (Newer) laptop when I installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 Home I downloaded via Microsoft Windows Creation tool. About a year ago.
My question is I want to keep my Windows 10 Pro license and ALL the layout of what is on this, my personal laptop, but am concerned that the embedded activation key on a new HP 15-dy2132wm laptop will cause a hitch in the activation. I know what the key is for this computer as I have a program called ShowKeyPlus.exe that I believe I also found through TENFORUMS. So I know the key of this older HP Laptop, and I can find the key on wife's HP or any computer and that would included a new laptop.
The laptop comes installed with Windows 10 Home in S mode as standard. Both of her laptops were in S mode and I got out of the S mode using her Microsoft account, although I have her, and this computer, as Local Administrator and not connected to Microsoft. Those new computers come with secure boot marked "ON" in the bios. This HP 15-f100dx, (mine) does not have secure boot enabled and just looked and Bitlocker is set to OFF on my HP Laptop It is also set to off on both of her newer laptops as well.
Will there be a roadblock to just swapping out the 256 GB (installed) NVMe SSD on a new HP 15-dy2132wm laptop for the one I just cloned on a 1TB NVMe Samsung SSD hard drive?
I realize one of the very first things I will probably have to do is run the batch program to install all the necessary drivers since "this computer" does not have those drivers installed
Also, can I just go into the BIOS of a new HP 15-dy2132wm laptop and turn off "Secure Boot" right off without causing issues?
Last edited by Gibbs; 01 May 2023 at 17:12.