Windows 10: Moving Hard Drive with Windows 10 OEM to Another Computer

Hello, I have a tower computer HPZ400 with Windows 10 Pro OEM installed on an SSD hard drive. I want to move this hard drive to a new machine and use it as my main operating system hard drive and as the only hard drive in the new machine.The two machines have different hardware including different motherboards and CPU's. Will I have a problem with my Windows 10 OEM license if I move the hard drive from one computer to the other?Help would be appreciated. Thank you!!

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my windows 10 oem didn't come with a product key

Dude, go to Newegg right now and read the questions and answers tab on Windows 10 OEM. The OEM copies that are listed there DO in fact, come on an optical disc. The flash drive ONLY comes on Retail copies.

 

Western Digital No Longer Honoring Warranties on OEM or Bare Drives.

Difference between WD OEM vs. Retail (RTL) drives
Answer ID 1352 | Last Updated 04/28/2015
Online Store sells both Retail and OEM packaged hard drives.

There are no physical or developmental differences between our Retail and OEM hard drives

Retail hard drives (Example: WD1200JBRTL) are sold in a retail package and may include the accessories below:

• Quick Installation Guide
  
• Acronis Installation Software (must be downloaded)

OEM or Original Equipment Manufacturer hard drives (Example: WD1200JB) are sold to OEM Computer manufacturers or Distributors in bulk packaging (bare drive only).

• OEM drives are sold without accessories or installation software.
  
• OEM drives may not contain a warranty from Western Digital. When Western Digital sells hard drives to OEM computer manufacturers such as Dell, Compaq, Apple, etc, we sell these drives without warranty. The OEM computer manufacturer would include the hard drive under the warranty of the computer system that the hard drive was installed into. For more information about hard drive warranties, please see our Warranty Policy.

If this is the case then OEM HDD's must be sold only to OEM's anything else must be sold as a retail HDD retail stores should be prohibited from purchasing in bulk those HDD's destined for OEM's and only be allowed to purchase and sell retail HDD's any supplier caught selling OEM HDD's to retail stores should be made to honor any warranty which WD themselves would be legally bound to honor on a same type retail HDD

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

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

also , try method 3
Drive Where Windows is Installed is Locked: How to Unlock It