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I haven't seen it personally but I remember something about Windows 10 being locked to the hardware it's originally installed on..
Something like this.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Thanks for reading and replying. That can be a challenge, but thankfully Win10 provides for moving the OS from an HDD to an SSD.
The only reason I know this to be true is because I've done this same thing on my i7, 8GB laptop (originally ran 8.1). My wife's old celeron-based computer originally ran win7 from her original HDD and we upgraded hers to win10 and then moved it to the 120GB SSD.
And recently my son had this same problem with his ultra-fast desktop -- I/O bound on Win10 updates -- and so he moved his win10 OS to an SSD.
I'm writing this fast as a reply and explaining that this does indeed work. Not trying to blast you with facts and prove you wrong. Just a quick reply. 
I always appreciate input when I ask a question. Thanks very much for your reply. 
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No problem, I've never actually tried moving a HDD between machines (usually just format and install them in place)..
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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With the new cloning software it actually (usually) works extremely well.
Samsung drives come with their own cloning software. It takes an exact snapshot of your drive so when you put the new SSD into your computer and boot up, you don't know any difference.
Some drives, like the one I had bought for my wife's (Kingston HyperX SSD) didn't come with cloning software and that is a pain. Luckily I was able to get a free tool to do the clone last night.
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Dan Neely wrote: Moving an OS image to a new drive on the same machine is easy.
Moving an OS from one machine to a completely different one can be fun
Agree 100%.
I would prefer to never try moving the OS to a different machine/hardware.
"Therein lies madness and sorrow." 
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Quote: "Therein lies madness and sorrow."
Agreed! That's why nature created clean installs. 
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That time I think I wasted as much time as reinstalling/configuring 20 bajillion programs would've costed.
OTOH several other such moves over the years have gone near painlessly and saved me weeks of crap time.
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--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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It's not locked to the hardware but they do make it a pain in the arse to reinstall and activate Win10 when you rebuild your rig or change out your motherboard. I found this out the hard way when my motherboard at home died and I had to replace it.
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So how do you activate Windows 10 after replacing your motherboard? Please tell me you don't have to pay for a license? 
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Haven't been there yet, but if that's the only change you probably need to do the phone activation route for an override of the fully automatic one.
If you simultaneously replace your CPU, GPU, change your ram, switch to a new SDD, etc; you might not be able to convince them you're just replacing parts on a dead system vs doing an install on completely new hardware - under the W10 licensing the latter always needs a new product key. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well, technically that is what I did. New mobo, cpu, ram, and case. The hard drives, psu, and video card were salvageable but, for all intents and purposes, it could be considered a whole new computer (it sure behaves like one  ). I think my saving grace was being the dutiful Microsoft customer; I bought a physical copy of Win7 Ultimate (64bit) years ago and did the free upgrade to Win10 Pro when it became available. As long as it's installed only on one machine at a time it's been good. I've technically installed it on 3 different PCs by now.
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Pre W10 serial installs were officially OK. I wouldn't be surprised if there's less slack in the phone activation system now for consumers playing games around the edge; but their main enforcement target is probably commercial abusers not you or I.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's true. I am still waiting for the inevitable moment that Microsoft transitions Windows to a yearly subscription so that they could be done with things like this.
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I didn't have to buy a new license. However, I could have saved myself a hour long phone call to Microsoft support by downloading the newest Win10 installer to a USB instead of the one I originally made when I upgraded from 7 to 10. The creators update earlier this year added a new option to Windows Activation for the replacement of major components. It was a one-click activation after that w/license key but Windows had to fully patch to the current build before I had that option.
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This is useful information, thanks!
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No problem. The whole ordeal certainly had me on edge for awhile. I too was afraid that I would have to buy a new license for Win10 but I could have always used my Win7 install DVD to go back to the older (and much better looking) version of Windows.
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If your Win 7 disc was an OEM disc, you most probably would have faced the same issue. Installs off of an OEM disc get married to a specific motherboard. It most probably will refuse to activate if you change the MB.
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Not a problem for me. I bought an official copy. I've used it to rebuild by rig a couple of times now.
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I saw this exact behavior with the pre-release version of the Fall release of Windows 10. Are you running a pre-release version? My remedy would be to do a "clean" install. You can get an install tool link from this thread:
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It's supposed to be the latest win10. It even ran an update last night after I replaced the SSD.
Thanks very much. I will check that out, however.
Always appreciate input and ideas. 
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1. Check the event log.
2. Also check that the superfetch service is disabled, coming from a HDD it may be on. (For SSD always turn it off - even though people say win 10 can figure it out by itself it still gets it wrong.)
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Thanks very much. I will definitely check both of those.
Forgot about checking event log (was in a rush).
Didn't know about the superfetch thing so I definitely want to check that.
Thanks again.
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A couple of weeks ago, I did a clean install of Windows 10 Creator's Update on my desktop that has a SSD. Windows 10 had SuperFetch enabled. So my guess is that it is always enabled by default! Thanks for this tip.
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My old laptop running Win 10 does this. In my case, its a video driver problem -- between 8.0 & 8.1 MS made a change to how they initialize it and cause this state. The problem still exists with Win 10, probably because I'm still stuck with the old Vista video driver.
Since none of the solutions you showed worked for me, I found a fix that involves setting an event-triggered task to automatically reset the video driver after booting.
So, first thing I'd do is to download and (re)install the latest Win10 video driver for that laptop.
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Then when all of that was done every ~10 minutes I'd get an error popup from windows trying to open "C:\Program". 
