Windows 10: Move Windows 10 to a new PC

Yeah I have had one or two similar experiences. In the end, you run sysprep, it fails, you delete culprit and just keep repeating until it works. Does not take that long but is a PITA.

I have never managed to get provisioning working on W10. All guides I have seen refer to old W8 store and they do not seem to work on W10.

I can see why 3rd party apps may choose to be single user only, but not for native Windows apps. A choice would be nice.

TBH, I uninstall pretty much all apps that have an uninstall option immediately on upgrade, so I rarely run into issues above.

 

When sysprepping an existing Windows 10 installation I usually just remove all UWP apps except Store, run Sysprep and later reinstall those native UWP apps I really want and will use from Store.

In install image creation, booting from OOBE to Audit Mode, this minor issue is not present. Apps will not be provisioned yet, no user profiles exist, Sysprep works as planned.

 

For Kari or Cerebrus, so what about using a windows 10 OEM Hard Disk with a digital license that came from a free windows 7 OEM license upgrade? If i struggle with authentication, can I buy a new license from microsoft and still create the same computer setup as before, or will it blow up and not work? I am guess OEM Drive might have a few quirks?

 

Hi there

My own take on all this is using sysprep is just too complex for typical home / single users. I'd simply dump / copy the OS image via Macrium and then restore to new HDD / SSD and let Windows find necessary drivers after initial boot -- usually windows will boot even if a lot of drivers are missing.

If you have a PAID version of Macrium you can always install to different hardware and if you create the bootable recovery media it allows you to include old drivers from your current system too which it will load to the new system on restore if it needs them --e.g for special hardware devices, graphics cards etc..

As for activation --W10 *Might* activate - difficult to predict as sometimes I've even had Windows activate on a Mobo change too.

However if it's an OEM version and doesn't activate you can always pay for a licence and it will activate - the key will convert it into a Retail copy. If in doubt try phoning the activation line --unlike most HIDEOUS call centres the one from Ms works quite OK usually.

These days it's far too much hassle a lot of times to do a clean install and re-install a load of applications - this of course depends on what you have on your system.

In any case ALWAYS keep the OS separate from your data etc so you never have to bother with recovering data (e.g music. office stuff, other documents, photos, multi-media, email etc) again after an OS or HDD change.

Cheers
jimbo