Concerns with fresh install on different hard drive


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    Concerns with fresh install on different hard drive


    Hi everyone, I've upgraded to 10 from W7, and I've had nothing but problems with it, so i'm concerned about the installation to a different SSD than the one I'm using, my mind is telling me it should be fine as the Upgrade happened all on the same hardware, but changing the location of installation, does that affect activation?
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    MrNeeds said:
    Hi everyone, I've upgraded to 10 from W7, and I've had nothing but problems with it, so i'm concerned about the installation to a different SSD than the one I'm using, my mind is telling me it should be fine as the Upgrade happened all on the same hardware, but changing the location of installation, does that affect activation?
    I went from a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB to a Samsung 850 Pro 512GB a couple of weeks ago using Macrium to clone, then I extended the C: partition with no negative effects. Hope that helps:)
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    Cliff S said:
    I went from a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB to a Samsung 850 Pro 512GB a couple of weeks ago using Macrium to clone, then I extended the C: partition with no negative effects. Hope that helps:)
    I'm not looking to clone though, it retains all relevant information when cloning, but my concern is the fresh install from the media creation tool and format all drives, do a fresh install and start new.
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    MrNeeds said:
    Hi everyone, I've upgraded to 10 from W7, and I've had nothing but problems with it, so i'm concerned about the installation to a different SSD than the one I'm using, my mind is telling me it should be fine as the Upgrade happened all on the same hardware, but changing the location of installation, does that affect activation?
    Whether you clone to, or image and restore to, or even clean install to a blank different SSD should make no difference in activation of a fresh/clean install as long as the initial upgrade activated successfully. MS activation server should allow it as the same machine.

    That's usually only a concern with a motherboard swap and likely overcome with a phone call to the MS robot.
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    sounds good to me, I'll give it a go and see what happens, hopefully I won't need to go down the automated MS machine then :)
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    all done, worked a treat, it asked me for my product key twice during installation, but skipped both times and windows says it's activated, so no concern was necessary, I'll contribute to your rep points for the help, thanks.
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    Glad it worked as we all thought it would!
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