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

Thanks for the info guys.

So, are we saying that, for the old PC all I need to do take out all my drives (including the current boot SSD), add a new HDD and do a fresh install of Windows to the HDD - Windows will activate because I've just added a HDD?

And, for the new PC, I can image all partitions on my 500GB SSD and restore ALL partitions to the 500GB NMVE, wipe the SSD and Windows will boot from the NMVE with basically a clone of my old system - while attempting to fix any driver issues - AND will automatically activate?

Sounds too easy?!
Or am I missing something?
I currently use Macrium Reflect but haven't taken or restored an image in years! Great program though.

cheers

That's great, sounds simple!
Thanks again for your help.

dalchina said:

However, you say you wish to move an OS from SSD to HDD. If the OS is installed on the SSD with AHCI protocol enabled, I suspect this will not work. Whilst there is a tutorial on enabling AHCI after the event, there is not one for the converse case.

As long as the computers are set for AHCI in BIOS/UEFI there is no issue. Any modern communist should be set for AHCI (or RAID) regardless of if it had an HDD or SSD. HDDs run faster in AHCI too.

dalchina said:

- let us know how it goes..

Will do - picking up the new PC early next week...