Windows 10: Moving from win7/old pc to win10/new pc

I have a newly built pc on which I will install Win 10. My old pc has Win 7 installed.

I plan to have the new pc boot UEFI. The old pc is legacy boot (non-UEFI).

Q1. Will I be able to just put the old HDDs in the new pc as storage and transfer files (photos, music, downloaded files, documents) from the old HDDs to the new drives on the new pc? Will the UEFI/legacy bios issue have any effect on that?

Q2. How about entire folders like Documents? Can that be transferred or merged between a win7 pc and a new win10 pc? I'm not even sure if it's called the same thing in Win 10 as I don't have it installed.

Q3. How about bookmarks for Firefox and Google Chrome? Are they in the cloud and will still be there when I install and sign into the browsers on the new pc or are they resident on the old pc?

Q4. If I install the old C: drive, which has Win 7 on it, in the new pc as a storage drive will the fact that it has an OS on it cause any conflicts? I suspect it won't because of the boot priority I will set up in the new pc bios.

Besides transferring the HDDs my other option is a 500gb external HD.

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i bought laplink pc mover and moved win7 over to a new pc win10,email didnt move, desktop moved but does not work

bought laplink pc mover and moved win7 over to a new pc win10,email didnt move, desktop moved but does not work

 

WIN10 HOMEGROUP not accessible by WIN7 PCs

Hello,

I cannot connect my WIN 7(home) PCs (3 of them) to a homegoup created on a new Windows 10 (home) computer.

The WIN 7 PC see each other without any issue.

Here’s how I proceeded:

• Leave all homegroups on the WIN7 PCs
• Create a new homegroup on the WIN10 pc with the same group
• The WIN7 PCs see the new homegroup
• Click on join and enter password
• After some time I get a message that connection was not possible

I’ve also tried to create the homegroup on a WIN7 pc. The WIN10 pc can see and accept to join but the shares are not visible.



Running WIN 10 1709 HOME

 

Curious about my Win7 key and moving to Win10.

Yes, that is the plan with the new build, but as I am also using that same key on my old build, to give to my family to use, would that still be possible?

For example: I reinstall Win7 on my old PC. The activation goes through, all is well.

Next, I install Win10 on my new build, and when it asks for a key, I provide my the key I used for Win7.

Will it go through as well? And if it does, will the other PC, running Win7, encounter issues because I used the same key on my new PC for Win10?