Hi,

I work in child care, with older grade school kids, and have my father’s old PC hooked up to their 3D printer so they can use it to design their models. Unfortunately, the machine is getting on in years, and is getting slower by the day. I don’t know the exact specs by heart, but it has an early i7 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and my old 1GB radeon GPU. It was never a fast machine, but it’s not a potato either, and works well enough for simple modeling.

I happen to have an 128GB SSD lying around, and I was thinking of installing it as the C:\ drive, in hopes of getting a little more speed/life out of the old machine.

Unfortunately, while the Windows installation is perfectly legit and activated, my father and I have had falling out, and we haven’t talked in years. I don’t see this situation improving anytime soon, so I don’t have access to the product/license key. I assume this means that a clean reinstall is not an option.

Is there an easy way to just migrate the entire existing installation to a new drive, without having to enter the product key again?

Hope you can help. Thanks in advance!

Sincerely,
Skazz

Edit: just to clarify, I did google the issue, and got the sense that it’s possible. But I’d like to have at least a few people who’ve actually done this confirm that it is. If I run into a single instance of having to enter the product key, I’ll be left with a large paperweight instead of a PC, unless I can convince my boss to buy me a new Windows license, which is unlikely to happen.