Windows 10: Moving an SSD holding a dual boot Win10 & Linux to another PC

I had a netbook with an SSD dual booting a copy of Windows 10 upgraded from Windows 7 and Xubuntu. The netbook has totally died, becoming unusable and I am building a new desktop PC for my g/son. I know it it fairly easy to move the Xubuntu and that Windows can also be moved but is more difficult due to being tied to the hardware and drivers. G/son wants Windows for games only available on that OS. I have some knowledge of cloning and or installing operating systems but have never tried this. I think once installed in the new PC it may well boot into Xubuntu but may be wrong. I could also use a USB copy of Xubuntu I have to make changes if needed. I would be happy to reinstall Windows over all but how would I fare using a copy upgraded on another machine? I have a vague feeling at some stage I received a key during the upgrade procedure but not sure and no idea where it is. Is there any guidance available to assist?

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How to Dual Boot Windows 10 with Other Versions of Windows, macOS and Linux

Back in the day I updated to Win10 by adding another SSD into my machine and created a dual boot when I "upgraded" from Win7. The other day my Win10 installation when belly up and I had to do a reinstall which has wiped out my dual boot. How do I tell Win10
that my D:\ is my Win7 installation and crate a dual boot?

 

How do I set my new SSD as the only Boot/System drive?

Was the ssd on the system when you did the win10 upgrade ?

If yes then that drive may contain the windows partitions and boot loader.

If not and you did a clean install of win10 to the ssd but still had the old

win7 drive as the boot drive, then the win10 bootloader could have been installed

to that drive, this depends on the boot chain order in the bios on what drive loads

first.

The way I would have done this is clone the win10 to the new ssd, then do a clean install on

the ssd drive.

Pulling drives from the pc and swapping them for a different operating system works

if you are not mixing the same type of os or upgrade and for microsoft windows it

depends on the licences.

But to boot say linux and windows without a dual boot system you have to configure each os on

its own boot drive then swap out when needed.

How did you upgrade win10? from dvd or bootable usb or in place upgrade.

Uefi bios are a little more involved than the older legacy bios.

Note; if you remove the win7 drive, put the ssd as the first boot drive,

if it does not boot, then the boot loader is on the win7 drive.

Do you see an option to boot win7 and win10 when the pc loads.