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Complex(?) W10 licensing question - 2PCs, 2 licenses, need to transfer
Hello
I'm aware that the W10 license is in some way tied to your hardware setup but I'd like to know if and how I can achieve the following.
I've just bought a new PC from eBay which has a fresh W10 on a fast NMVE drive.
My old PC (which I'll be giving to the kids) has W10 on an SSD partition. It has all the programs I want set up nicely and I don't want to have to do all that again on my new PC.
The kids don't need a particularly fast boot time so I want to take my old SSD out of my old PC and use it in my new PC but I want take the W10 image from the SSD and put it onto the NMVE drive (for a faster boot) and use the fresh W10 currently on the NMVE and move that to a 1TB HDD that I'll put in the kid's PC.
Is this possible and, if so, what's the easiest way to achieve it?
I'm aware that there may be driver issues when trying to boot my SSD image from the NMVE drive but will Windows fix this automatically?
Just to be clear, here is the existing and proposed setup:
Now:
Old PC - Win10 (& all my programs) on SSD
New PC - Fresh Win10 install on NMVE
Proposed
Old PC - Fresh W10 install on new 1TB HDD for the kids
New PC - Win10 (& all my programs) on NMVE
- SSD (no Win10) to be used as fastish Data drive
What would be the easiest way to achieve this, and would W10 activate properly on each PC after all the drive/OS swapping?!
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this.
Regards