Windows 10: Upgrading Windows 10 Motherboard without affecting the Raid

I currently have a small media server like setup using some old computer parts of mine, with Windows 10 Prof OEM setup on a SSD and 2 x 2Tb storage HDDs, which are partitioned to allow for a 500Gb software raid 1 per HDD (for redundancy) and the rest setup as software raid 0 for media speed.


I want to change out the barebones (mobo, CPU & RAM) out of this machine and upgrade to some hardware I have received from a friend, which is preferential.


I have also read online that Windows 10 licence can be bound to a windows account. So after all that background, this is my question:

If I use this method to change out my barebones components for the upgraded hardware (if it works), would it keep my software raid, as i'm not altering the Windows 10 installation on the SSD?

Alternatively, if I bought another OEM key for the changed out hardware, would I be able to swap the parts over, activate Windows and still keep my raid setup/data?


Thanks for any advice in advance.

:)

 

Windows 10 and upgrading motherboard

Hi,



Thank you for bringing up your query on Microsoft Community.



The only hardware changes that can negatively impact activation status once you upgrade to free version are the changes to the:

• CPU
• TPM
• Motherboard replacement

The following changes are examples of hardware changes that will NOT impact the activation status:

• HDD/SSD
• Video card
• Adding extra memory

Let us follow the steps suggested by Andre Da Costa (replied
on July 26, 2015) in the following thread:



Will Upgrading Motherboard After Upgrading To Windows 10 Make Me Lose My Windows License?

Will Upgrading Motherboard After Upgrading To Windows 10 Make Me Lose My Windows License?



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