Electric_Spark

So I been having some issues with Windows on my pc, and I have decided a fresh reinstall is the best option. I have 3 physical drives on my pc, and the one Windows is currently on has 2 partitions. If I were to reinstall windows on that partition, is the rest of the drive safe?

So this started the other day when I was having issues sometimes with the windows search bar, it would randomly not work. I thought nothing of it and didn't really pay attention. Then one day I turn on my pc, my home screen looks different and windows is saying it can't log into my account and I need to sign out. If I signed out and back in the pop up would refuse to go away. After some troubleshooting for awhile, the problem was not going away, and windows just felt like it was acting weird. Like a number of solutions I would try to do through the command prompt to verify files or stuff like that would give me an error. I rebooted in safe mode, and was still having similar problems. Then, after a restart, I was unable to login into my user with my pin, giving me the error "Something happened and your PIN isn't available. Click to set up Pin again." I tried solving it in the other user that is on the computer, but my solutions there all required access to my other user, the administrator, which I couldn't log into due to the pin. Eventually, I found this solution on reddit and managed to get into my admistrative user. By the way. this whole time, whenever I boot into windows it is like stuck in safe mode, when I log in it's in safe mode and nothing I do seems to change that. And it keeps saying im not signed into my windows account. Now, the real issue comes here. At this point I am debating weather to wipe the windows drive and do a fresh install, as I can't figure out how to fix this sign in issue. I do something on my laptop that needs my mouse and keyboard, and I unplug them. I come back to try and fix the issue and plug my mouse and keyboard back in, and they dont work. I restart my pc, and now I'm stuck on the login screen unable to input anything. I can go into the BIOS and i've try solutions from there, like turning on USB legacy support, but nothing works. So here's my 2 questions 1. How do I get my keyboard and mouse working again? 2. I have 3 physical drives on my pc, with the one that windows is installed on having 2 partitons. If I were to do a fresh usb install on this partiton, would the other partition on that is on the same physical ssd be safe? Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read this. I appreciate the help in advance.

I have already done loads of troubleshooting on my own through previous forum posts, windows tech support, and YouTube. Reinstalling windows seems like the best option. If you think you may have any other ideas I’m happy to outline the problems I’ve been having.

So because of blue screen issues, I’m in the process of reinstalling windows and have decided to back up my 2 drives. While the option I am using to reinstall windows shouldn’t delete any data, I bought a 2tb external hard drive just to be safe. I was planning on backing up my 1tb hdd and 128gb ssd. As I think about it though, I have a couple questions: 1. If l’m reinstalling windows (and windows is on my ssd) do I even need to have my hard drive in when reinstalling? 2. If that’s true, do I need to do anything special before I takeout the hdd? Thanks so much for reading if anyone sees this!

Just making a post to here so people see this topic again, still unsure of what to do...

Yeah that is not possible. So would you recommend exporting the files in some way to be safe?

So I’m trying to reinstall windows. Using a windows boot USB, there is an option to keep files, settings, and apps (as shown in the video). I didn’t plan to export my data to another drive. Does that make sense?

So I have been having lots of blue screens in the past day, and I think a fresh install of window is the best option. I’m going to follow this video to make sure my files and everything is saved. Now I’m worried that if my pc blue screens during the update, something bad could happen. Is that even possible if I’m in safe mode? And is this method the best way?

When you say restart, is it blue screening? Or just turning on and off with no error?

Ok

iCUE appears to have recently added support for ASUS products on their end, and I had been using it the other way around. I'll your suggestion.

So would there be a way to let them download stuff they in a separate place without being admin? No drivers just like files and software.

Yeah that doesn't sound like a lot of fun

Sounds like CCleaner may be the best option then! Thanks for the suggestion!

So for awhile now I've my ram has been Corsair Vengance RGB Pro, and I use iCUE's compatibly with ASUS Aura Sync (as I have a ASUS motherboard) to control it. The thing is pretty much every time I open iCUE and Aura when I turn on my PC, the ram gives me a little error triangle in software with no explanation. When this happens, neither iCUE or Aura Sync can address it, and the only solution I've found is a force update of the ram's firmware. This fixes it until I turn off my PC, and then it happens again. Now I have also discovered that when I got Rainbow Six Siege about a month ago, when I have my PC's RGB all fine and the software's closed, booting up R6 screws up my ram RGB color and gives me the error in iCUE again. Any ideas or fixes are greatly appreciated!