Moving a hardware RAID card and drives to new MB, CPU

Wayne Carpenter 0

My motherboard failed on a Windows 10 system to boot after around 8 years so I had to get a new one. My question is can I simply move a hardware RAID card and drives to the new MB (and new CPU RAM) without any significant issues? If there are no significant issues, I understand that at least I would have to use the Activation Troubleshooter and select the change hardware option to activate Windows. Is this correct for a Retail version.

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Wayne Carpenter 0 Reputation points

2023-12-02T07:08:16.4533333+00:00

I tried to edit my question but found I had to add text only here. The RAID set up has Windows 10 on it and was working okay.
Wayne Carpenter 0 Reputation points

2023-12-17T04:08:43.8266667+00:00

I am surprised that no one was able to answer my question here or at answers.microsoft.com!

I will answer my own question after updating my motherboard, CPU and RAM. Yes, all I needed to do was move the hardware RAID card and attached drives to the new board, configure the BIOS on the new motherboard (I updated the BIOS) and after a few tries to boot, it booted into Windows okay with all of my data as it was before my motherboard failed. With some difficulty, I finally found the place where you can click on a link if you've updated your hardware and Microsoft recognized my computer as legitimate.

It's very nice to have hardware RAID when your motherboard fails.

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Wayne Carpenter 0 Reputation points

2023-12-17T04:13:20.1933333+00:00

I answered my own question by putting it in the Comments box above and then when I clicked on Add comment, it disappeared!

I just wanted to let others know that moving a hardware RAID card and drives to a new motherboard worked with no loss of data. It was challenging to find the link to allow Microsoft to recognize my computer with the new hardware though. Microsoft should make it easier.
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