Reinstall W10 without losing or changing anything??

[vong]

Hi all,

 

So I recently did a clone to a larger SSD and windows is a bit unstable. I know there is an option to reinstall W10 without losing data but what I want to know is will the reinstall keep everything as it is as in programs/settings and what not? I've got qbitorrent with quite a bit of torrents and my itunes library (although connected to NAS).

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, vong said:

I've got a bunch of bookmarks and saved passwords on firefox

Things on Firefox are tied to your account, you can use them anywhere. If you aren't signed into Firefox then you should set up an account to keep those saved.

[Founders]

What did you use to clone the drive? Have you tried creating an image and restoring from that? I'd recommend using Acronis for imaging/cloning and storing your torrents on a different drive.  

[vong]

2 minutes ago, Ehmc130 said:

What did you use to clone the drive? Have you tried creating an image and restoring from that? I'd recommend using Acronis for imaging/cloning and storing your torrents on a different drive.  

Macrium reflect, had some trouble getting the drive to work (partition extending). No I haven't. Did the clone a few weeks ago and windows has only just shown signs of unstability in the last couple of days. I've got all of my torrents downloading/stored on a NAS, just want to keep the files so I can easily find/manage them on the program itself.

[Founders]

5 minutes ago, vong said:

Macrium reflect, had some trouble getting the drive to work (partition extending). No I haven't. Did the clone a few weeks ago and windows has only just shown signs of unstability in the last couple of days. I've got all of my torrents downloading/stored on a NAS, just want to keep the files so I can easily find/manage them on the program itself.

I've never used Macrium Reflect so I can't help you there but you could try either restoring from an image or keeping the partition size the same and extending into the unallocated space in Windows disk management after you clone the drive. 

[vong]

2 minutes ago, Ehmc130 said:

I've never used Macrium Reflect so I can't help you there but you could try either restoring from an image or keeping the partition size the same and extending into the unallocated space in Windows disk management after you clone the drive. 

I may be better off doing a clean install. Gonna try updating windows to see how it goes for now. When I cloned the drive and set it up as the main boot drive it wouldn't start windows at all unless in safe mode. Had to extend the partition in safe mode to get windows working which was odd.

[Founders]

4 minutes ago, vong said:

I may be better off doing a clean install. Gonna try updating windows to see how it goes for now. When I cloned the drive and set it up as the main boot drive it wouldn't start windows at all unless in safe mode. Had to extend the partition in safe mode to get windows working which was odd.

Try Acronis, I've been using it for years now with great success. 

[kingknightrider]

33 minutes ago, Ehmc130 said:

Try Acronis, I've been using it for years now with great success. 

EaseUS Partition Master is good too.

Actually natively supports cloning to SSD from an actual hard drive of differing sizes:

https://www.easeus.com/support/partition-master/migrate-os.html

[homeap5]

Macrium Reflect is great, but I recommend to use his rescue usb to clone/image/restore (or second computer) so your cloned system is not in use during clone.