Hello PC Freaks
I have an Asus ROG_STRIX_Z590-F_GAMING motherboard. With 4 x M.2. slots, of which only the first 2 support M.2 PCIe 4.0,
if you have an Intel i9 11 Core installed.
It is a so-called transition motherboard from PCIe 3.0 to 4.0.
But I only have an i9 10 core installed.
It is the same M.2 SSD PCIe 4.0 , but without the LPX designation, but runs at a PCIe 3.0 speed.
The question would be:
Is it possible to clone the existing M.2. PCIe 4.0 via docking station to a new M.2. PCIe 4.0, then upgrade the processor to an i9 11 core,
without losing the Windows 11 Pro licence?
Or can I also clone to a new M.2 during operation with backup software such as O&O DiskImage and then insert it into the 1st M.2 slot?
and also upgrade the Prozi to an i9 11 Core?
Until now I only knew that the mainboard was bound to the Windows 11 Pro licence.
Is this also the case with the Prozi?
Two interesting questions that Windows Support would probably not answer because they prefer to sell licences.
Many thanks to all in advance
I think the Windows licence is not linked to the processor or the motherboard, but only to the contents of the boot disk.
Google offers numerous instructions for cloning discs under Windows. All of them require downloading and installing separate programmes.
I prefer to clone hard drives under Linux, including Windows boot hard drives. To do this, one can boot from a USB flash drive with "live Linux", for example Kubuntu, which can be written from an ISO image downloaded from cdimage.ubuntu.com in Windows, and use the command "dd" in the console command line, for example: dà if=/dev/nvme0 of=/dev/nvme1 bs=1024k where /dev/nvme0 is the original hard drive (input file), /dev/nvme1 is the clone (output file) and the 1024k block size (blocksize 1 gigabyte).
To avoid confusion and damage to the source disk, it is worth practising on a few other floppy disks and flash drives first.
So even if you can somehow do what you want to do, I would first write out the Windows key from the existing version. You can find instructions and tools on Google to get your key. The multiple use of your key is stored in the linked Microsoft account, provided that this is your licence. Since Windows 10, you should be able to change the hardware more or less easily. In the early days of Windows, you couldn't change the CPU. There were kernel errors. But no matter: You can try it, but there is still a residual risk that you will have to reinstall.
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