change motherboard without reinstalling windows 10

Startup Repair didn't fix it (partly thanks to Win10 disabling System Restore for 128GB SSDs), bootrec /scanos doesn't want to know even though the Windows partition is accessible, and the storahci driver was actually enabled in the host registry (so it wasn't that old chestnut being the problem), and through pure luck (IMO, I don't understand why this even worked), I got the computer to restart in safe mode. It does so then BSOD's on reboot (INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE). The mistake I then made was to tell Windows to completely uninstall that driver from Device Manager. The storage driver is still the Intel 2010 one. A year or two later, I see the computer again and notice that Win10 has not been optimising the SSD at all and refuses to do it. Later, the customer took advantage of the in-place upgrade to Win10. I installed all appropriate drivers for that circumstance (so likely Intel chipset software + IRST). I did a clean install of Win7 on the computer (laptop) with an SSD some years ago. I made a mistake on a customer's computer the other day which revealed something interesting and relevant to my point: Those niggling issues might end up having nothing to do with the re-used OS configuration. Click to expand.To elaborate, I don't mean 'expect to have niggling issues after platform changes if you keep the same OS install', I meant that if one has niggling issues then at least a clean install rules out one possibility that would be a pain to track down.

Change motherboard without reinstalling windows 10