Windows 10: Installing a M2 drive, how to move a license?

Hello!,



My wife's Z420 is still chugging along but, she's beginning to have software issues with Adobe Illustrator. I think there is a driver conflict and there are too many things to troubleshoot. I'd rather do a clean install and use this as an opportunity to get some M2 storage on a PCI card and do a fresh install of Windows 10.



Her machine came with an OEM install of Windows 7 that we upgraded to 10.



I'm wondering, how do I do a clean install onto a new hard drive? How do I move the license from the internal SSD to the M2?



Any input appreciated!

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Installing Windows 10 on an M2 SSD drive - will it work? Any tips?

Hi Neil

No need to worry, installing Windows 10 onto an M2 or NVMe M2 drive is no different to installing Windows 10 onto an ordinary drive, the same process applies . . .

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
How do I unlock the drive where Windows 10 is installed?

 

Cant install retail win10 to new M2 Drive

Hi, I just build a new system and was looking forward to finishing it off by installing Win10 to the M2 drive. It's a completely new ADATA 960GB drive with factory settings (only drive attached). ASUS ROG X470-1 Mobo, 16G G.Skill RAM. The ADATA drive shows
up fine in POST and Im able to select the USB to boot in UEFI mode. The USB was purchased from a Microsoft retail shop, and comes on a 16G USB in FAT32.

However, every time the installation BSODs with stop code 0xc000021a after selecting with version of win10 to install (64 or 32). After googling, this seems to be a common problem many has encountered when installing one drives and Ive tried all recommended
solutions without any luck, this includes:

Disabling CSM

Disabling Secureboot and enabling it, trying both Other OS and Windows UEFI

Clearing security keys and loading default ones

Booting both in UEFI and legacy modes

Nothing seems to work, and I do not have access to a computer to download and create a new USB drive.

Any suggestions on what to do?

/David