Windows 10: Can I Reuse My Product Key and USB Windows Installer after Upgrading Parts of my PC?

Happy New Year!


I'm making some significant improvements to my PC and replacing the motherboard, CPU, GPU, and adding a new M.2 SSD (which I plan to install Windows 10 on). I purchased a Windows 10 product key which came with a USB flash drive for installing Windows 10 back in 2016. I activated windows and still have my product key and USB Flash Drive that I used for activation and installing the OS.


I understand that the product key is only valid for 1 active PC at a time but my concern is that because of all the hardware changes my product key won't be accepted when I do a fresh install of Windows 10 on my new SSD. Is there a way to remove the activated product key from my existing OS/MS account so I can move it to the new SSD when I do a fresh install of Windows 10? If there isn't a way to transfer the product key... will the fresh install active when I sign into my MS account since it is supposed to be tied to that as well?


I've read through several articles on the website and it looks like I might have to contact MS Customer Support since I'm changing all of this stuff out... but I wanted to see if anyone else had gone through this before.


Thanks!

xSitruc13x

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