Common inquiries about reinstallation
Common inquiries about reinstallation
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
It removes the installation from the target drive but doesn't delete programs on other drives during a full reinstall.