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Questions tagged [clean-install]

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Force installation of Pro, Enterprise or other editions of Windows from 24H2 onwards

In a system with an Original Equipment Manufacturer license tied to the motherboard, it's not possible to freely choose what edition of Windows to install. Changing from say, Windows 11 Home Single Language to something as a purchased Windows 11 Pro…
Juan Manuel López Manzano
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Would "Keep Nothing" option during installation delete folders other than "windows"?

During Windows installation there's an option to "Choose what to keep" If I select "Nothing", would it delete only the usual Windows folders, such as "Windows", "Users", "Program Files", etc. or would it also delete any custom folders I might have…
laggingreflex
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Clean install of Win10 on homebuilt computer

I hope my post is in the right SE section, please let me know if my post shouldn't rely on SU. Abstract I recently bought my computer (homebuilt), and I now try to install Win10 on it. I have a single problem that I don't manage to get through: when…
Maxime Recuerda
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Reset Windows 10 on new computer to remove bloatware

If I get a new Win10 computer, filled with bloatware, can I reset the factory installed Windows and create the equivalent of a clean install, getting rid of all the flotsam and jetsam?
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How do I cleanly re-install samba after deleting some folders?

I had samba installed on my fedora server and when it didn't work I tried to fix it by deleting the samba folder in /etc and reinstalling samba. Now after I install samba I can never get the service to start. The folder is never created in /etc.…
admdev
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New SSD doesn't show in UEFI boot but only in Legacy and won't accept Windows 11

System: HP Pavillion Gaming CPU: Intel Core i5-8400 SSD: Kingston FUry Renegade NVMe 1TB RAM: Kingston Fury 2x16GB DDR4 MB: HP 843B OS: Windows 11 Home UEFI firmware: AMI F.42 As a part of my PC upgrade i have bought new RAM and SSD (because my…
Dominic Abbot
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Will a clean-install affect my Dell's "BIOS Recovery Tool"?

I'm about to clean install Windows 11 onto my laptop. I'd like to know whether this will affect the "BIOS Recovery Tool" currently installed. My laptop uses the "BIOS Recovery 3" version in that link there. I actually just spoke with Dell about this…
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Standard re-installation of Windows 11 - not selectable "keep personal files and apps" - What's the Reg Edit fix?

What's the Reg Edit navigation to change these options? Bit embarrassed I need to ask, I'm a computer enthusiast and just have a 15 year habit of installing clean windows on separate partition and re-install anytime I want for that new computer…
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Why is a clean install of Windows recommended after hardware changes?

I haven't clean installed Windows 10 since I installed it about three years ago, and since then I've upgraded every component apart from my SSD. While I think I've done a good job of keeping it clean, in a few games (GTA V, Warzone) I've noticed…
magmaniac
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How does a PC know what initial boot loading image to display when it starts up?

I have clean installed two laptops now, with Windows 10: An Asus laptop and a Lenovo laptop. However, for both installs — I noticed that the PC’s still display the Asus loading image when booting and the Lenovo loading image when booting…
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Windows 10 Clean install odd behaviour

I had on my PC an insider version of Windows 10, I tried to install the latest one to date (October 2020 version), I was only offered to do a clean install so I copied the folders I need to an external storage (these folders are on the root of the…
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Upgrading to SSD, but keeping all programs etc. intact and usable on the current local disk

I want to add a 1 TB SSD to my computer as the new local disk and do a clean Windows 10 install on it while leaving a bunch of the software, games and files on the current HDDs. I'd then delete the previous Windows files from the HDD. Would all the…
ruck
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Windows 10 keeps giving me automatic repair loop even after the clean install?

in the first windows was working perfectly ….. then I got some kind of green screen of death saying some sort of unknown error … then it got into automatic repair loop I tried every single fix out there on the internet but all failed …. I tried…
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Remove Raid-0 and reinstall windows 10

I have recently bought this laptop: Here. Unfortunately, it comes with two 256 GB SSD's in Raid 0. I do not want this, so I will break the raid configuration. HOWEVER, because Windows is installed on this configuration, it will break as well. How…
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Windows 10 clean install stuck on white spinning dots

I chose to do a complete reset of my Windows 10 PC where it completely wipes your hard drives. It went through the 0-100% just fine, but is now sitting at a black screen with white spinning dots. I've left this up for ~6 hours now and still nothing…
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