Transferring image to a new computer
I have Acronis True Image Version 2021, Build 35860 Installed on an Asus P6X58D mother board using Windows 10 Home, Version 1909, Build 18363.1316. I am building a new PC on a more robust MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk motherboard to better process Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. The other major apps I use are Microsoft Office 365 and several Malware and Antivirus programs. I was wondering if it is possible to clone the old computer’s SSD and transfer to the new computer’s M.2 SSD? If so, will the programs still work? Any suggestions would be appreciated.


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The ability to transfer the Windows license will depend on whether you have a full license or OEM license.
Thomas, it is unclear as to whether you are building a completely new PC and will still keep the old one, or whether you're just replacing the MB and drives on the same PC.
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Thanks for the responses so far. To be clear what I am doing is building an ALMOST entirely new PC. That is, a new MB, new M.2 SSD, new case, new power supply, but keep two hard drives because I have a ton of pictures on them that I have spent hundreds of hours working on them in Lightroom. So I don't want to take down the old PC until I have everything up and working on the new PC. After that I'll just throw out the 12 year old MB and sell the old case and power supply on Craigslist. I have completed assembly of the new PC and am just waiting to figure out a sure fire plan of action. I'm about to start up the new PC with a Windows 10 boot thumb drive just to see if the new PC is working OK before proceeding any further.
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Thomas, my personal recommendation for this scenario would be to make a new clean install of Windows 10 on your new PC.
I would suspect that you are going to have activation / licensing issues with trying to migrate your OS & applications from the old PC to the new one, especially if your main applications are activated based on the PC hardware signature.
If your old PC has been around for as long as the motherboard (12 years), then it was probably upgraded from older versions of Windows along the way and be carrying forward lots of dross that doing a clean install will avoid!
Note: you could test the new PC by installing Windows 10 without activating it if you don't have a spare license.
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Thanks Steve, instinctively I pretty much had that feeling, but was hoping for a miracle. My main worry was/is migrating all of the Lightroom stuff to the new PC without losing all of my work. Hopefully Adobe can guide me with a plan of action in doing that. Thanks again.
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