Installing and Activating Win 11 with new mobo, cpu, hard drive.

[Cliff3f]

I am updating from Win 10, hopefully. Here’s what I’ve got: MSI MPG Z590 Gaming Carbon WiFi Gaming Motherboard (ATX, 11th/10th Gen Intel Core), Intel® Core™ i5-11400 Desktop Processor 6 Cores, and a Crucial P5 Plus 1000GB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Gaming SSD. I checked my Microsoft account and it does shows my registered copy of Win 10. I’m hoping that I can install Win 11 on the NVMe M.2 and then transfer my data files, photos, etc., from my old C drive. What are the chances this will work?

 

[Badbak]

i installed win 11 on my Z590 but i prefer to do a clean install not an update.
Yes i did it on nvme chip idownload the iso from microsoft for win11 created a bootable usb stick and installed to the nvme
make sure no other drives connected just the nvme

 

[Cliff3f]

i installed win 11 on my Z590 but i prefer to do a clean install not an update.
Yes i did it on nvme chip idownload the iso from microsoft for win11 created a bootable usb stick and installed to the nvme
make sure no other drives connected just the nvme

 

[Cliff3f]

Thanks for the heads up on attaching any other drives because I was going to do that. Now I won’t.

 

[The Shadow 2023]

So what do you do when the SSD is buried down inside the PC (laptop) and there is no easy way in, without cracking it in half, like an oyster?

I was gifted the little Laptop (HP 15-da0032 wm, 4GB DDR4 Ram, 16GB Intel Optane memory NVMe), and a 1TB Toshiba HD.
The label on the laptop says, that, "Optane Memory Does NOT replace or increase DRAM in your system".)
So, how can I possibly use that NVMe for anything?