Setting up Windows 10 following a CPU or motherboard upgrade
Setting up Windows 10 following a CPU or motherboard upgrade
Consider upgrading your CPU and motherboard. You currently have Windows 10 installed with your personal account. You’d like a clean installation on your boot drive without wiping all disks—your games and programs are saved there. You’re thinking of disconnecting all drives except the boot drive, then installing Windows 10 from a USB clean install. After that, you can add the other drives one at a time to test everything. This way, you won’t lose the data on your other disks. Let me know if this approach fits your needs!
If you need assistance, please share your concerns. We can arrange for it to be placed on a USB stick and installed.
1. Create a USB boot drive.
2. Replace the CPU or motherboard.
3. Boot the PC from the USB drive.
4. Perform a clean install on the C drive (using a bootable SSD).
5. Log in with your Microsoft account to activate Windows 10.
That should cover it!
You’ll have to format the boot SSD using the installer’s interface. The operating system won’t affect the other storage devices during setup.