Hi,
I’ve seen a few people say it’ll be fine, I’ve heard that it is a terrible decision. Could I take my m.2 SSD out of my current AMD PC and put it directly into my new intel system? Should I reset it to default windows first and get rid of programs and drivers? Could use some advice. Thanks!
Irrespective of the vendor of the CPU–and irrespective of SSD vs. spinny hard disk–if you take a boot disk from a first PC to a second {different} PC, it is possible that the disk will not have the correct drivers for the second PC.
Whether it operates enough to actually get to the point where you can download the correct drivers is unpredictable. It all depends how much work was done to optimize the disk in the first PC. If there was a lot of vendor effort to remove unneeded software for that context, there might not be enough generic support left to run on the second PC.
The most successful path is to install Windows to an empty new disk, which installs a very generic and broad set of minimum drivers. This gives a context where the new machine can boot and access the internet for any hardware-specific improvements needed for the new PC.
Then use a migration solution to move any apps and data from the original disk to the new machine. These are usually hardware+software combinations that allow one to either copy live from old PC to new PC via a cable or wireless network, or one takes the old disk out of the old PC and plugs in a cable that allows it to appear as an external drive to the new PC.