Windows 10: Old system died, moved SSD to new system, cant reactivate windows 10

I have a windows 7 I've had for at least 8 years and when Win 10 came around, I took the free upgrade.


But my old Pc finally died on me and I bought myself a ryzen 5 2600 and everything in order to get back at it. But now I cant seem to reactivate windows 10. I really don't wanna have to buy a new license and I know that it is transferable from one pc to another for cases like this.


And I am signed in with the same account I used to on my old pc.

:)

 

How do I transfer an ssd from old system to new using two licenses?

I have an old system (with Windows 10 Pro OEM) from which I'd like to harvest the primary ssd, and move it to a new system - I realize I have to buy a new license since the motherboard is different, so I got a new license for the new system. Both licenses
are OEM, and both systems have been built by me (not HP, etc.). I would like to slap a new drive in the old system and give it to a family member. Note that I'll have all the drivers ready on the disk before the transfer, so no big technical issues that
I can't solve on my own should occur. Also, both licenses are same editions/architecture (Win 10 Pro 64 oem).

Can I somehow decommission the license on the ssd on the old system, and reactivate on a new hard drive on the old system (basically a primary HDD replacement)? Following that, using the ssd drive just moved, can I change the product key and activate the
new license I just bought on the new system (which would then be tied to the new motherboard)?

I know it's confusing - that's why I'm asking here before trying anything. Basically I'd like to keep a ton of applications and dev environment I have setup, without having to redo everything - which would be nigh impossible in Windows (A nice WSL setup,
lots of system configuration, and a bunch of embedded programming libraries and so on) - at that point I'd just install a Linux distro instead.

Thanks!

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Move Windows 10 from installed hdd to installed ssd

If you want to move it from hard disk, system image or cloning would be your options:

Choose system image if the SSD is equal in size or larger than hard disk:

• How
  to: Create a system image in Windows 10
• How
  to restore a Windows 10 system image to an existing or larger storage device

Choose cloning if its not:

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/clone-move-windows-10-data-larger-ssd-disk-drive/

OR

You can remove the hard disk, reinstall Windows 10 directly to SSD, reattach the hard drive and format it.

Step 1: How
to download official Windows 10 ISO files

Step 2:

• How to: Perform a clean install of Windows 10