Inspired by your post, I went ahead and moved my SSD & HD from my existing computer to a new computer (who came with minuscule SSD & HD), without running sysprep. It was an easy success. Thanks!

Success! Enabling CSM mode was the way to go. Everything was trivial after that.

After a successful dry run, I went ahead and plugged in the old SSD & HD in the new computer. Windows started fine,...

Thank you for the detailed and enlightening response.



If I do this, restoring the two partitions with Macrium Reflect will maintain GPT partitioning? I don't know much about this, but...

Good day,

I bought a new desktop (Lenovo Gaming IdeaCentre Computer, Y710 Cube-15). It comes with a pitiful 100 GB SSD + 1 TB HD. My existing desktop has a 460GB SSD + 3 TB HD. I'd like to move my...