Basic questions regarding reinstall

[Wilicious]

Hi!

 

Today my PC had a pretty solid crash, everything hung up. After a cold boot the PC worked for 5-10 minutes before it hangs again, clicking the mouse results in a cheerful "doodoo" sound every time I click. Event log showed bad blocks on my drive and some errors I didn't recognize. My file explorer also loads the list of my drives very slowly. I tried a windows recovery, which failed. After it restarted the problem was gone, ah well.

 

I now realise that the boot drive I'm using (Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB) is 7 years old and has never been reinstalled since the upgrade from W7 -> W10. My plan is therefore to get a new SSD with higher capacity (there always seems to sneak some files into C no matter how much you try to stop them), and install W10 on that with a USB boot stick. So here are my questions:

 

1. I am reasonably sure no programs will work after an OS reinstall, should I therefore uninstall any bigger programs before the reinstall, so I don't have to dig out program folders and delete those, or does this happen automatically during the installation process? These programs are all installed on other drives than the boot drives.

2. When the installation is done, will I get prompted to log in with my MS account? Gotta be sure that I've tested the credentials before I do this

3. Is there anything else I should keep in mind? This is a completely new build, it's only the drives that are transplanted from 2 earlier builds of mine (1NVME, 1SSD and 1HDD

[Statik]

1. When you reinstall it completely wipes the drive and anything on it. I suggest you back up anything you want to save on your boot drive or it’ll be gone forever. 
 

2. you’ll have the option but you can skip it

 

 

[_Omega_]

The drive were you install windows will be wiped so you don’t need to deinstall the programms.

 

I would disconnect all the other drives bevor the installation just to make sure that you cant make mistakes

[Wilicious]

Just now, Statik said:

1. When you reinstall it completely wipes the drive and anything on it. I suggest you back up anything you want to save on your boot drive or it’ll be gone forever. 
 

2. you’ll have the option but you can skip it

 

 

Yes I realise the drive I install onto will be wiped, but does it also uninstall programs _on the other drives_ like a windows recovery/reinstall does?

[_Omega_]

1 minute ago, Wilicious said:

Yes I realise the drive I install onto will be wiped, but does it also uninstall programs _on the other drives_ like a windows recovery/reinstall does?

it wont touch touch the other drives so as long as all the data of a program is on another drive the program will probably be fine

[C2dan88]

When reinstalling Windows you will need to reinstall apps anyway no matter what drive they are installed on. Windows wont auto detect the apps stored on the other drive.

[Wilicious]

Just now, C2dan88 said:

When reinstalling Windows you will need to reinstall apps anyway no matter what drive they are installed on. Windows wont auto detect the apps stored on the other drive.

Right, this was the answer I was looking for, thanks a lot!