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Welcome to the Grok Shop! In this video
I'll be demonstrating a Windows 10 OS
and license migration. Now it might seem
like I'm transferring Windows from one
machine to another, but in reality all
I'm doing is I'm upgrading my
motherboard and my CPU for my current
installation of Windows. Before
attempting the migration, I highly
recommend you do a full backup. To get
started there, type [Win]+[s], and then type
"backup". Next, make sure backup settings
are selected and press Enter or click OK.
Now we're gonna click on "Go to backup
and restore (windows 7). Next,
click on "Create a system image". System
image backups can take up a lot of space.
It kind of just depends on how much
space you've used on your hard drive. For
me it's gonna be about 630 gigabytes. So
I'm gonna end up putting it on my
network attached storage or NAS box. If
you don't have a NAS, or another place
where you can store all the data that
you're gonna need for your backup, it
might be a good time to invest in an
external hard drive. If you happen to be
in that camp, I'll put some product
suggestion links for you guys below. OK
once the backup completes, we have one
more preparation step. We need to bring
up the device manager so just type [Win]+[s]
and type "device" and select Device
Manager. What we want to do is make sure
the hard disk controller is generic to
Windows and not specific to any
particular chipset. To do that, we're
going to expand the "IDE ATA / ATAPI controllers".
So, in this area I have
highlighted, if yours says "standard controller"
or something to that effect,
you're good; you don't need to do
anything. If it says something like this,
we need to make a change. To make the
change, we're going to right click and go
to "update driver". OK next we're gonna
select the second option: "Browse my
computer". Now we're gonna select "Let me
pick" and finally we can select "Standard
SATA AHCI controller" and click "Next".
Once it's done, it'll prompt you to reboot.
Don't do that. If you were to reboot, it
could reverse the change you just made.
Instead of rebooting, we're just going to
do a shutdown so we can begin the
upgrade. OK, so your next step will depend
largely on your particular configuration.
For me, I'm taking a Windows 10 Drive
from one box, & moving it over to another
box which used to have Windows 7 on it.
So here you can see my target box.
Basically, what I'm doing is making room
for the windows 10 drive that I want to bring
over. To do that, I'm going to move my old
drive down a bit and make some space and
also make sure I have enough power and
SATA connectors to make the connections
to the Windows 10 drive. For this
scenario, I'm gonna make sure I connect
the SATA connection for the windows 10
drive to the same SATA port on the
motherboard that the old drive was
connected to. If you have a new
motherboard or one that you have not
already been booting from, just make sure
your windows 10 drive is connected to
the SATA port that you plan to boot from.
So now, back in my old box, I'm just going
to remove the hard drive containing the
Windows 10 installation. My target box
has a Xeon CPU, which has no onboard
graphics, so I definitely need an
external graphics card. So at this point
I'm going to go ahead and remove the
graphics card from my original box and
set it aside. If you need to farm any
cables like SATA cables from the old box,
this is a good time to do that, depending
on the condition of your target box, you
may want to do some cleanup. In my case,
mine was a little dusty, but it wasn't
really bad enough to bust out the
compressed air. If the cables in your
target box are getting a little bit
birdsnesty, this is also a good chance
to reroute some of those cables and get
things a little bit under control.
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OK now with all that done, I'll go
ahead and swap out the video boards.
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OK so now it's time to boot. If you need
to change anything in your BIOS, this is
a good time to do it. Just hit delete or
whatever your BIOS key is and go change
it now, and hopefully if all goes well
you'll boot up into Windows and you'll
probably see a message like "Getting
devices ready..." or something where it's
trying to find all the drivers for the
new motherboard.
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uh-huh
No wonder my mouse wasn't working! So as
you can see, this method works. It's
worked for me all the way back to the
Windows XP days and beyond, but that's
not to say that you can't have problems.
I do know of people who have had problems
trying this. So, if it doesn't come up
right don't panic - especially if you have
a backup like I showed you how to do
earlier. There are options and ways to
get out of the bind that you find
yourself in. I'll have more information
in the description below and also on the
blog post that goes along with this and
I'll put a link to that in the
description. So once you get logged in
there's still the issue of the license.
So what you'll find is Microsoft puts
this little nag on the screen that
actually overlays on top of your apps. It
comes and goes but it's still pretty
annoying sometimes. So in previous years
this process was actually a little more
difficult. Recently Microsoft's made it a
little easier - especially if you have a
digital license or one that you acquired
for free by doing the free upgrade. So
now we'll type [Win]+[s] and type "activate"
and select activation settings. Next,
click "Change product key". So my scenario
is my Windows 10 installation came from
a Windows 8.1 installation and on top of
that, I did the free Windows 10 upgrade.
So I do have a "digital license"
(quote-unquote). What that means is I'm
just gonna enter my windows 8.1 product
key even though it's an OEM key. The
sticker for the Windows key - whether it's
8.1 or 10 or whatever - usually looks
something like this. If it's not on your
box, you might find it stamped on some of
your documentation.
Once you enter the key and Windows has a
chance to phone home, you should find
that you're activated. You'll see a little
message indicating as much right under
the activation area. So now, the only
thing left to do is to update any
drivers where you feel like something's
not working right or you know that
there's a newer driver that you want to
have. To get the latest drivers, of course,
you just head over to your motherboard's
and manufacturer's website. In this case
here, mine's EVGA. You need to know your
model and if you don't know your exact
motherboard model just type [Win]+[r] and
then put "msinfo32" in the box press ENTER
and then under "baseboard product", you'll
see your motherboard model. So that's it
for this video. I hope you found it
helpful. If so, be sure to thumbs me up,
leave me a comment, or share me. Be sure
to subscribe to be notified of my future
computer related videos. But as far as
transferring Windows 10 from one machine
to another? That's how it's done.
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