Am5 motherboard and existing hard drives / system disk?

Ftmaster95ByFtmaster95

I have a question. After some consideration, I'm now planning to upgrade my system (PC) to an AM5. I'll probably get a Ryzen 5 7600 + 32 GB DDR5 RAM, plus a question about the motherboard. I'm currently very interested in the MSI Tomahawk B650, as well as the Tuf Gaming B650 Plus. I think I'm leaning more toward the MSI this time, though. In any case, if I change the motherboard, CPU, and then the RAM, my other components will stay the same—meaning I'll keep the SSDs and my remaining HDD, the graphics card, etc.

Now my question: How will Windows 10 and my license behave with this upgrade? Will it be recognized, and will my license be retained? And more importantly, I've noticed this before: Hard drives have two types: Master Boot Record and GPT. Mine is set to Master Boot Record because all my hard drives have a maximum capacity of 1 TB. Now the question is, will they be recognized normally via SATA or PCI and boot properly? My system, Windows, is on my 250 GB SSD via SATA. I'd hate to start the PC if the motherboard suddenly didn't recognize my hard drive. I've had this happen before, and a few times I had to set the BIOS to UEFi/Legacy, then everything worked again. I'd like to know how the AM5 behaves in this case.

Thank you in advance!

(2 votes)
Loading...

Similar Posts

How much disk space does SteamOS for PC really need?

ByChippo78

Sure, Steam says 200 GB. But considering that such statements are aimed at people who like to load games, videos, and other junk onto their 10 terabyte system partition, that figure is probably a bit too high. Does anyone have real-life experience with this, other than just Google? When I bought a new SSD, I…

PS3 file system broken and only option after the message is formatting?

ByVito7

Hello. I wanted to play something on my PS3 again, but then I got a message saying the file system was corrupted and it needed to be formatted. I find this very strange, since I had already played something on it earlier that day. Should I format the hard drive and do something else?

Subscribe
Notify of
1 Answer
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
mveltre
mveltre
1 year ago

AM5 doesn’t make any difference. Windows must be reinstalled, but you can also try to start it. My experience here is more likely that a bluescreen will come quickly. However, I can’t answer a license question, I removed my last Windows a year ago and only use correct operating systems (Linux;-)).

0