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I'm trying to install windows 10 to an old pc I had from 2016, specs being i5-7400 and a gtx 1060ti. The old ssd died and now I'm trying to install the OS on an HDD (we're tryna cheap out) from a USB, but as seen in the photo it's stuck there for a while now. It's the very beginning, right after choosing whether the 32 or 64 bit. Is it just taking long? This is like the very beginning, no text has been seen

Hi everyone, I have some trouble with my fresh build, and it appears that the issue comes from my windows 11 installation (which is an upgraded windows 10). I'd like to wipe everything on my SSD (this is a single M.2) including windows 11 and previously installed windows 10 in order to do a fresh start with good'ol bootable flash, but as far as I searched, a lot of different ways to do this were proposed (and most of them were product placement for X or Y formatting software). I'm kind of new in this universe, so I don't exactly know how to proceed... any hints on how to do this without damaging the SSD? Thanks,

Hello there, I got a Asus laptop, which has Window 10 preinstalled along with tons of bloatware. So, I've been thinking of freshly installing Windows 10. But I'm not sure which partitions I should delete during the installation. According to the disk management, the primary disk got three partitions, the C: drive, recovery partition and something called EFI system partition. The latter two has no drive letters assigned to them. So, I'd like to know if it's safe to delete all of those partitions or should I keep the recovery and the EFI partition during the installation? Thank you!

Hello, I would like to ask if I fresh install windows 10 would that make the second partition (which is dynamic) to lose its data or would it be able to keep its data after the clean install? (if its not the main drive which would otherwise contain windows). Second Disk is 2 HDDs (2TB Each) which I would like to keep the data of. Thanks

Hey Everyone, Wondering if I can get any help from anyone out there. I'm really wanting to fresh install windows as I'm concerned I may have some nasty malware on my PC that I cant get rid of. I have run scans with paid version of Kaspersky and Malwarebytes but they have both come back saying my PC is clean, but I'm not sure I can trust it. I have not fresh installed windows since I got my PC over four years ago so it might be a good idea to do so anyway. I've have a couple of attempts in someone trying to access a couple of my accounts for certain programs, and although they were unsuccessful and long times apart I'm still concerned. My main question is, if I do have a virus/malware, what am I safe to back up? If I back up my images/documents and then put them on the fresh install, could this put me at risk? Can I carry the virus on malware over? I'm hoping someone will know what is safe to back up and bring accross? Thanks in advance!

I'm buying my mom a lenovo laptop. Her usage is basic office stuff, emails, surfing void that is google, & the majority of its life will be unused. I've narrow down to two models. From Best Buy, IdeaPad 3 15.6'' Ryzen 3 for $399.99 with Windows 10 S mode. From Lenovo, IdeaPad 5 15'' ryzen 5 for $572 with standard Windows 10. There's very little difference between models & the thing only that matters is the display brightness. The Best Buy one has 250 nits vs the Lenovo has 300nits & both seems to have IPS displays. On both, I'm going to do a fresh install of windows 10 2019 ltsc. Only the S mode is holding me back from getting the Best Buy. I have very little experience dealing with S mode laptops & the only one I've attempted to do a fresh install of Windows made it impossible to do it. To this day, it was the only computer I wasn't able to do a fresh install of windows. I know it's a lot to ask but I would like to have an answer within an hour.

Edit - 01/30/2023 Found my issue. The SATA ports I was using apparently decided to "nope" out in between testing and live installation. May have been my mistake, may have been why the board was cheap. We may never know. The title is the TLDR. My E: and F: drives will sometimes 'disappear' from Windows after the system restarts (they do not do this while the system is active, it is only after a restart/shutdown). The read/write to each drive is within spec when cross-referencing Crystal Disk Mark and the manufacturer's claims, and the system experienced no read/write/dismount errors during the 3 sessions of 8 hour testing that I've done trying to ensure drive reliability while they're appearing. EXPLORER, CHKDSK, and DSKMGMT cannot find the drives when they 'disappear' and, when they are appearing, there are no bad sectors/etc. that my testing has discovered. Formatting in both NTFS and exFAT (just because why not try at this point) doesn't change behaviour. My biggest issue with testing and diagnosing this issue is that none of it is entirely repeatable. Sometimes E: and F: appear through multiple restarts, and sometimes they don't appear for multiple restarts. Reseating the SATA data and power cables doesn't always cause them to reappear after a boot. I'm no novice to PC building so I don't think I've messed something up, but human error is always a possibility regardless of potential skill level (or hubris). At this point I'm out of ideas, short of dismembering the entire build, which isn't really something I'm looking forward to with my case (a custom-made skeletonised case based off a standard ATX tray that has a lot of partial coverage of components, making removing something as simple as a drive a 20 minute process of unscrewing layers without scratching something and jamming my sausage fingers into nooks). I've used the case with this board before, so I've verified there's no clearance issues or etc. Testing Information: C: and D: drives function as intended, swapping D:'s SATA to E: or F: seems to make each drive appear reliably. Swapped SATA cables of E: and F: drives. Tested Motherboard/CPU combo before fully building to ensure reliability. Reseated SATA to ensure they were making proper connection. Rerouted SATA cables on the off chance being routed alongside the 24-pin Motherboard power, 6-pin Motherboard supplementary power, and 8-pin GPU power was somehow creating enough electronic interference to cause sporadic registering. Created a custom Power Plan and disabled drive hibernation because desperation. *Cleared CMOS and ran Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool. Computer Specs/Information: (All items were cross-referenced with ASROCK's QVL list) Motherboard: ASROCK AB350 Pro4 (I know, but it was literally 50 USD brand new, on sale) Motherboard BIOS: 7.20 (Beta), released 2022/5/27 (I tried several BIOS iterations before upgrading to this point) RAM/Memory: G.SKILL F4-3200C16D-16GTZB CPU: Ryzen 7 1700 (at stock clocks for now) GPU: Sapphire RX 480 8GB Nitro+ (at stock clocks for now) Power Supply: Corsair RM750x (total system wattage is slightly under 450 watts peak, or 675 watts theoretical if you want to assume the RX 480 8GB is going to have transient spikes which double wattage). Operating System: Windows 10 Professional, fresh install was 2 days ago, build 19045.2130, 64-bit (Currently haven't activated Windows due to this issue but I haven't seen reports that Microsoft limits drives with an un-validated OS) Drive C:: OCZ RADEON-R7SSD-240G Drive D:: WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0 Drive E:: WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0 (yes, it's a separate drive) Drive F:: HDS723030ALA640

I'm going to be upgrading my computer soon, and I had a question. I know I have to clean install so there's no driver conflicts, but I was wondering if it would be okay to copy all my data (Desktop, Documents, pictures, videos, music) to one of my extra harddrives, clean install, then move all that stuff back on to the OS drive after the clean install? Also, my Windows is digitally tied to my account, I don't have to get a new key right? Just sign in after the fresh install and it should be good, right?

Hey guys, How's it going? I'm going AMD in a few days. That means new motherboard, new processor, new everything except my ssd and hdd. (I'm giving my current build to my little brother as a birthday present) When I got my current build, I installed a lot of programs (like steam, origin, uplay, amazon games, minecraft, riot games) on D drive (1Tb HDD) instead of C (500Gb SSD) thinking that I would be able to do clean installs of windows on C drive without having to download all my programs again. However, now that I think about it I'm not sure that my programs are going to work right off the bat. Do you think that steam and other apps will launch without any compability problems? Or should I backup everything on an external drive using steam's backup and restore feature ?

Hi all, within the last month I had formatted my hard drive and reinstalled Windows 10 to clear up some space. Since then, my programs have been booting up slowly. I have a pretty powerful machine (i7 4770k, EVGA 1080, 16gb ram, 128 SSD boot drive, etc.) Before I had reinstalled Windows 10 everything loaded fine. Chrome was open in less than a second and windows explorer worked fine. Now, sometimes when I launch a chrome it takes 8-10 seconds to open or I'll launch windows explorer and it will begin to fill it's progression bar like when you search something and take about 30-40 seconds before I can use it. This NEVER happened on my old build. Also my CPU sits around 20-25% usage while on the desktop with nothing running it always sat around 8-12% usage on the old system while running A LOT more processes and services. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you This is a photo of my CPU usage with just google chrome open. It's not very steady at all, and even with heavy gaming, it would never get that high before my clean install.

due to me being drunk and fucking up somthing with the desktop i wanna fix it and the easiest way is to just start win10 from scratch. A - is the SETTINGS --> update and security --> recover --> reset this pc in win10 does practicly the same thing deleting the os(and everything else) and installing it again from a usb flash stick thingy? B-can i delete both C and D this way? thx for help

I'm very new to OBS & haven't had much time to fiddle with it & already there's an update which is kinda great. I know with some software such as Adobe Flash, it's always best to perform a clean install rather then applying updates over an existing version. With others such as CCleaner though that practice is totally unnecessary for the most part so I'm wondering. Should I completely uninstall OBS Studio 0.16.4 before getting 0.16.5 or simply use the full or small installer provided here, also what's the difference between the two?

Might be a stupid question, especially since I've been using computers all my life and built my own computer. buuut, is there a way to make computer "new again" without having to do a fresh OS install? I use Ccleaner, Malwarebytes products, and I occasionally manually go through my Data folders and delete any unwanted programs. There is also defragging but I only have 1 HDD. The rest of my drives are SSDs. The reason why I don't want to do a fresh install is because I have almost 300 Steam games, 10 or so Origin Games, Uplay games, and 1 GOG game. Now, I know that most of those games especially steam games, don't need to be erased since they are on a separate drive than what my OS is installed on (OS is on m.2 and games are on HDD/SSDs) However, I do have a LOT of programs on my m.2 that would be an extreme pain to reacquire or download ect. Its mostly the programs on my m.2 that I don't want to stop working.. So any other tips for juicing up a computer without fresh OS install? i7 6700K Asus Hero VIII Zotac 980 ti Amp Extreme Corsair 32gb DDR4 Ram I have a beefy build but I have been using this computer for quite some time now and is obviously not running to its full potential. It also probably doesn't help that when I upgraded to Windows 10, I did the free upgrade and Not a fresh install. So any problems i might have had in Win 8.1 (classic shell) probably copied over to my now current win 10 build. Anyway, I'd appreciate any tips anyone has to offer.

hey my parents got ransomware and have decided to do a clean install they bought there system from costco and i have the product key

Hey guys, So I had to do a fresh install of Windows 7. I won't complain too much as it happened before school started and I can put everything on my 525gb ssd. I got to thinking about what other do after they get a fresh install. I want others to share what they do after they complete a fresh install of Windows. What settings do you change or add, what programs must be installed first, things like that. I always install Firefox first and foremost. Then I install the Windows Updates, and after that.... just my general programs, Powerchute, WizMouse, Microsoft Office, antivirus and Malwarebytes. I love my Teamviewer too. I don't mess with setting too much, I generally change what I need as I go. What about yall?

So my PC stopped working a few days ago and I decided to do a fresh install. I didn't have a lot saved that I couldn't later redownload so I wasn't worried. But after my fresh install, my keyboard has since stopped working in the OS. By that, I mean that when I got to search something in the windows search bar or in the settings search bar or just anywhere I would be able to type inside the OS, nothing appears. I keep mentioning the fact that its on the OS because in google chrome, steam, iTunes, even when naming a folder, it works. Shortcuts also work. Might have something to do with my keyboard layout. I live in Spain and my keyboard is Spanish, but I set the layout to Spanish so I don't know... Any Ideas? Thanks

Hi, I just ordered a new motherboard for my system that I built a few years ago as well as a new graphics card. I know swapping out a graphics card is quick and easy just change it out and reboot. But, to change the motherboard, will it recognize my current windows install or will I need a fresh hard drive and fresh windows install? Like can I just swap the board and expect it to boot from the same hard drive or will that not work? Id rather not reinstall Windows and everything. Also, the new board is for the same CPU socket as before and still made by Asus, just a better model.

Hallo i have just made a clean install so i can setup my new ssd. I have deleted some of the other partitions, but im not quite sure what to do now. I want a complete new install (no leftover data).

Good day! So I have come to reach out for help on how to fresh install a Win7 from a flash drive. Here's the story: So the new pc have brought to life, I borrowed a CD containing Win7 installer and stuff, and currently I'm copying the contents to my flash drive. Now here's the problem, I'm very new to this topic, hell even my friend tells me what to do but unfortunately, I don't understand shit because I'm anxious at doing this crucial stage. Here's my question, once I've copied everything to the drive, and I chuck the flash drive to the pc. How am I able to install the OS from the flash drive to the pc? Just a heads up, the pc is completely new. It has nothing but BIOS on it. Please help me, it would mean the world to me if I am able to run my new pc. Thank you very much for the help.

Hi, I want to do a fresh windows install and was wondering if the product key from the original install will work for the second install. I have Windows 10 Home OEM Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZSI7Y3U/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Thanks

So I built a new pc. B450m pro4 Ryzen 5 2600x Xfx rx 580 8gb Evga 600w Pny 2666 16-18-18-35 I formatted it for a fresh install from usb which was also plugged in, but when I formatted the hdd it also did it to the usb and now i cant boot . Can i have someone else install a copy of windows 10 on the usb for my pc if i got a product key, and boot from it?

I just built a new PC and I wanted to do a fresh install since my hard drive has some viruses. My original PC had Win 8.1 Pro before Win10 came out and I was deciding for about a week or so if I wanted to get Win10. I then said screw it I'm just gonna get it and use that free install. It updated to Win10 Home/Pro (as I had thought) of whichever version they where doing for the free upgrade. To now my PC doesn't have a CD drive so he said he has a Win10 Home on a USB and just use the code from yours it should work. Well I used Magic Jellybean to get my code and it said I had Windows 10 Enterprise and my code and all that. Well just installing it my code of course says it doesn't work, so I looked on activating it later and it says i have Windows 10 Pro. but when i use Jelly bean it says I have Enterprise and my CD key is the same, even though its a new hard drive and a USB windows so it has not been in contact with another hard drive. I did just recently sign into windows with my Microsoft account I have for Xbox but I wasn't sure if they would somehow give this PC an Enterprise Windows. if anyone can help with this I'd appreciate it.

After having Windows 10 reinstalled as part of a repair process in a PCBox repair store, my PC is slow enough to be almost unusable. These are my specs: OS: Windows 10 Version 1903 Build 18362.418 MB: 970 GAMING (MS-7693) CPU: AMD FT(tm) - 8350 Eight-Core Processor, 4200Mhz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 RAM: 1x8GB 2x4GB SSD: One 250GB SSD where the OS and little more is installed. HDD: One 1TB HDD where the rest of programs and files are. The PC worked perfectly before taking it to the repair store, except for the monitors losing video from time to time. I took it there to have that problem fixed, and two days later I received it back. Supposedly they simply fixed a faulty connector and did a fresh reinstall of Windows 10 on my C drive (The SSD). The video problem is gone, but since then the PC is completely unusable. I've read that after a fresh install you need to give windows time to reinstall updates and everything, and like the ignorant caveman that I am I decided to leave it on for a whole day and night, around 26 hours in total, and then restart it to see if that fixed the problem. Of course, it didn't. The PC is still slow, to the point where while I was able to play games like Arkham Knight perfectly well with videos, spotify, or discord in the background, sometimes leaving a MOBA open by accident while starting another game and not even noticing it, now I'm having problems running Streets of Rogue alone. Windows Explorer lags, this forum takes almost thirty seconds to load, and as I am writing this the text lags and freezes. I've tried a few things people have recommended me, like disabling heavy programs at startup, activating my MOBO's OC Genie, resetting window's index and reseating the RAM and CPU cooler in case they weren't installed properly, but nothing has worked.

Hi everyone! I currently have a 1TB HDD in my PC and I am planning to get an M.2 ssd to only put the OS, and maybe some applications on it. However, I still wanna use my 1TB HDD for games and general storage. the c drive that has that has my OS is in a partition that has around 300GB. I dont mind reseting my PC and downloading everything from scratch if that will make the process any easier lol.

I did a fresh windows Install on my laptop from a boot usb, and now my the fan on the laptop is a lot more audible than it was before. I have checked to make sure there was nothing running in the task manager, I downloaded all the appropriate drivers from the manufacturer's website, I'm even in the power saver mode. Not sure what else to do, anyone have a clue? Thanks in advance!