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leo1798
By leo1798
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I've posted in the troubleshooting section a couple of times recently, but at this point I'm just going to do what I know which is to reformat my boot drive and reinstall Windows 10 from scratch. But how did I get here? Well, I haven't had many problems with my PC since I built it back in August, 2018 aside from some GPU driver issues and some CPU instability due to an aggressive overclock, but nothing that I couldn't handle. Within the past week, however, it has been nothing but trouble, and I have nothing to blame other than Windows. First, I had a problem where my audio outright stopped working which I have documented in this thread here. This would prevent me from starting numerous programs so I had to reinstall windows, although I maintained my personal files. After I reinstalled Windows, everything appeared to be fine, aside from a networking issue which I have documented in this thread here. I ultimately decided last night that I would try a dual boot with Ubuntu to see if the problem persisted, but it was already late so I put it off to today. I shut my PC down for the night, and when I went to start it up, it booted into the motherboard graphic and told me that there was a boot error and that it was trying to repair such. Nothing seemed to work and so I went and found an online guide. I ran some diagnostics with the command prompt, and although none of my files were corrupted, I discovered that Windows was not recognized as being installed despite all of the files still being intact and my boot drive and subsidiary drives still being fully functional. I created a boot stick with my Laptop and got into Ubuntu, double checked that all of my files are okay, and then installed Ubuntu permanently on a separate hard drive so that I have something in the future to boot into. I'm now planning to format my Windows boot drive and install Windows from scratch to see if it will finally play nice with my PC. I have no idea what happened other than that some recent updates must have messed something up, and I consider this experience to be unacceptable as most users are far less knowledgeable than myself about PC's and would be helpless in this situation. If anyone knows what could have happened, please let me know. I haven't formatted anything yet as I'm curious to see if this is a known issue, but I will be doing such later tonight.

 

 

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In most cases, Windows problems are in fact hardware problems. Bad OC (CPU, ram, GPU) may cause that. Faulty ram too sometimes (I would recommend use only single stick for test). Or even motherboard problems. Installing Windows on hardware that have problems with Windows is never good idea. If you have problem with hardware then you may end with empty hard drive because installation fails.

 

As I see - you made reinstall already, so do not expect that "clean install" will be much different. It's not some kind of magic - installer will copy the same files with the same content. It's also not analog copy from VHS, so quality of your files will be the same as when you install your Windows first time, reinstall or made clean install. You may even install Windows on separate drive and compare files using some tool if you think that different installation makes different Windows somehow. You should focus on hardware stability.

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