Windows 7 Installation - Transfer to a New Computer

Racehunter said:

AHCI is enabled on old board and can be enabled/disabled on new board

alright there is a better way to move to new motherboard!
You have an oem or retail license?

open "device manager" and expand branch "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" what do you see there?

Steve, listen to Kaktussoft. He knows this stuff.

Kari

Racehunter said:

I have retail licence. I am not currently at the PC, but will look a little later when back at home.

Many thanks for the replies

In how many hours are you at home and give me answer?

Be sure new motherboard BIOS has SATA AHCI enabled
Be sure new motherboard BIOS starts from SSD instead of HDD. Or simply say harddisk, but it's possible it starts from HDD if it has an active partition. Mark all HDD partition as inactive prior to swap. check in "disk management"

Are you very sure it boots from SSD???!!! check in device management what partition has boot flag. If it's SSD partition then mark HDD partitions as inactive (if any)

1. Enter diskpart, then list disk after diskpart is loaded.

2. Enter select disk [number of the disk the partition is on].

3. Enter list partition, followed by select partition [partition number].

4. Type inactive.

5. type exit
Now check again in "disk management". Be sure not to make SSD partition inactive!

Racehunter said:

Here is a screenshot of the relevant device manager page.

Nice all standard!!

Kaktussoft said:

Racehunter said:

Here is a screenshot of the relevant device manager page.

Nice all standard!!

When will you swap mainboard?