Question Win11 HDD move to new computor

[fallen2004]

Hi all.

I have a computer which I want to upgrade CPU, mobo and ram in. I am thinking individual components or just buying a pc without HDD, os or GPU as I have all them.

The hardware side I am comfortable dealing with. My question is, if I remove the HDD and GPU from old computor and put them in a new computor, will windows 11 break? It's intel to intel. I do not want to do a reinstallation of windows. I will at some point but cannot atm.

I have searched online, but answer appear inconclusive and hit and miss.

If it's possible, any recommendations, like driver removals?

Thanks for any help

 

[Tech Junky]

Should be fine. Might have to activate windows again but other than that it's just updating drivers.

 

[OlyAR15]

Both Win10 and Win11 are fairly tolerant of system changes. It will update the drivers and boot to desktop. Re-activation may be necessary, but the computer should run fine.

Depending on the type of Windows installed, you might want to create a Microsoft account to get your Windows activation attached to your account. That will make it easier to reactivate it on new hardware.

 

[BoomerD]

I went from a pre-built i7-9700k rig to a me-built i5-13600k rig...dropped in the NVMe boot drive from the old pc, ta-da! Windows 10 was just fine. Since I was selling the old pc, and the IS was tied to that hardware, (oem9 license) I went ahead and bought another Windows 10 license for the new rig. It was simple to change the reg.