I have an HDD internal hard drive in my desktop with windows 10 OS system now. However, I am thinking to sell my desktop, but I want to keep that HDD drive because the HDD contain a lot of personal files and the Windows 10 OS system authorization. So, I am wondering that if I am going to buy a new desktop later (without the hard drive), can I still use the old HDD drive without reinstall the OS system? In other words, can I just plug out my HDD drive from the old PC and plug into my new PC directly? I know I have to reinstall all drivers for all the new hardware, but is any way to avoid that? Because if I reinstall the OS system my files and Windows 10 authorization will gone. (I bought the Windows 8 authorization when I was a student with a student disscount and recentlly upgrande to Windows 10.)
Answer
If you got the free Windows 10 upgrade, the license for that is not transferable to another machine.
Theoretically, you could do as you suggest and just plug the drive into a new computer, boot from it, and wait for drivers to update automatically. The Windows 10 instance would then report as non-genuine (and enforce restrictions) until you purchased a new license.
If your main goal is to be able to use your accumulated files, it may be best to get a USB-to-SATA adapter and just treat the drive as external storage.
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