upgrade you video card in the old MoBo, get it's drivers correct and let Win 10 activate with the new hardware (Win10 won't object with a new video card, it's the most common upgrade). if your old MoBo is working fine, change it last. You are changing a lot of hardware all at once, so take baby steps: I fear losing Windows, apps and data when making the upgrade. I might be making this all more complex than necessary. Then once getting Windows to complete installing on the new system, clone the old HDD on to something new? Was setup to put the OS and apps on one drive and data on another will that cause an issue? Should the old 1 TB HDD be installed in the new system to get through the initial startup? Would it be better to remove the graphics card and uninstall all its driversīefore starting anything? I think I need to clone Windows and apps on the old M.2 drive onto a separate drive and install it into the new system. Since Windows is installed in old configuration, what happens when the new one starts up with a new and different hardware configuration? Does Windows just go through a detect new hardware thing? Or would Windows fail and not startup at all? Since Windows I know that there are many cloning or recovery type apps available. The HDD I can replace either as an SSD or an additional M.2, the new board has 2 M.2 slots. I will replace the current M.2 drive with a new bigger M.2 that operates on PCie rather I also have a graphics card that I will upgrade too. I used the option to separate OS and apps from data for performance. Currently Windows is on an M.2 180 GB drive and data

I want to retain all my apps and data without having to reinstall everything or in some cases replace with new. I am planning to install a new motherboard and drives, an upgrade.

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