- DO I NEED NEW WINDOWS IF I CHANGE MOTHERBOARD HOW TO
- DO I NEED NEW WINDOWS IF I CHANGE MOTHERBOARD INSTALL
Depending on how much you would need to install, I personally would say if it is a small amount then redo it. If they aren't the same revision you might or might not run into issues. If you don't see or can't find you need to visit the site of the company who made your motherboard to find out where it appears, usually a FAQ or going into support and searching will yield you the info. If you look over the top surface of the motherboard you should look for a revision number. However they could have made even a slight change that didn't warrant what is a called a revision. Others might say it shouldn't be an issue since you are putting in the exact same parts, if that is what is meant by (same product - you used this in your 1st paragraph).
DO I NEED NEW WINDOWS IF I CHANGE MOTHERBOARD INSTALL
I am one of those who wants a perfect install on the motherboard I will be running it on. Some minor item like memory it was not suppose to make an issue, but I have heard and read, the CPU, Motherboard and GPU are the three things it looks at. It could not (if you have a free copy) by reinstall on a different motherboard. Now Microsoft originally designed Windows 10 to be tied to a motherboard.
DO I NEED NEW WINDOWS IF I CHANGE MOTHERBOARD HOW TO
Here is an articles that shows you how to validate whether your copy is activated or not. If your network was plugged in when you installed Windows 10 you may have already activated it. If you read into the Microsoft language it seems to indicate you had to have reserved your copy by the deadline but didn't say much about activation and registration. I activated my version about a week after the deadline and there was no problem. Now if you haven't activated it yet, there are two things to worry about. REPLACING MOTHERBOARD/RAM AND REINSTALL(Not Yelling) Double check them before deleting in case you had partition a drive for a reason, like store document/videos/photos etc. So to answer your second part of the first question, they were either left over from a previous install, or where you created new partitions on that drive. Now if you don't need to have different partitions, then select the drive remaining. So put your mouse cursor and then click on the partitions to be delete (I always go from the bottom up). Remember if you install it on too small of a partition then you will create a major headache. You have 2 choices, you can fix it here or fix it once the computer is in Windows. Now it sounds like you have more than those partitions. In regards to the partition problem, windows when it gets to that stage will automatically show you depending if you have partitioned it already or if it unformatted you will see in the window something like this: