clean install

I am using Windows 8.1. After getting stuck on a Windows update screen I turned off the computer via the power button. Long story short, when booting my laptop I get the message 'Operating System Not Found'. However, I bought a USB HDD Enclosure and plugged it into another computer. All my...

hi currently windows 10 is installed with UEFI mode in my ASUS notebook. the harddisk is in GPT partitioning style. so when i turn on my notebook, i am getting ASUS logo while booting up instead of the blue coloured windows logo. i want to make a clean installation of windows to bring back the...

Desktop PC: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (older motherboard but it has 8 SATA ports, two IDEs, and a floppy disk port) AMD 4000+ 4 x 512mb DDR 233mHz memory nVidia 9500 GT 1 x WD Raptor 74gb on SATA 1 2 x LD DVD drives on SATA 3&4 4 x Toshiba 2TB on SATA RAID 1-4 (Silicon Image RAID controller on the...

Hi! it's always good a feeling to restore to factory and have a clean install of your OS. Yes you will probably have a ton of updates and Apps to restore after factory restore, but a clean install makes you feel good, knowing your PC is free of all the BS that's accumulated on your rig. PUP's...

This is a problem I've had for months with no solution in sight, even after trying multiples fixes. Windows 10 ran fine for about 3 months prior to this issue, but ever since this happened I haven't gotten it to run properly since. A few months ago, I ran into an issue when I installed an...

Good afternoon, I am hoping for some help diagnosing my issue with constant MEMORY_MANAGEMENT BSODs in Windows 10. I get these every 15-20 minutes on average, sometimes occurring immediately after boot, sometimes after around an hour, but the system is pretty much unusable in its current state...

I just saw this about clean installing Window 7 Sticking with Windows 7? The forecast calls for pain | ZDNet I've noticed that since Windows 10 released Windows Update is incredibly slow when updating Windows 7 PCs. I'm glad I keep several images. I used to slipstream updates in XP and several...

I have windows 10 installed on a ssd drive and my boot time is around 2 minutes. I've tried everything that I could find online, such as: disable startup programs, enable fast boot etc. . I had some corrupt image files, but I repaired them using DISM and now 'sfc /scannow' is not returning any...

Hi there, I am trying to wipe my ssd drive and install Windows 8.1 64bit. I put the disc in the drive, restart computer, hit F11 at the right time to select boot from dvd drive and then press enter when its says press any key to boot from cd or dvd. The Windows disc then starts to load, but...

Hello. Since I have installed win10 on this notebook, ASUS K45VM, weird things started to happen. Sometimes, after the logon, the following message appears on tray: "Windows cannot connect to group policy client service...". This is complete random. When this happen, I cant open anymore Google...

Hey, I just upgraded my Windows 7 32bit to Windows 10 32bit ive Downloaded a iso copy of Win10 when i tried to do a clean install it ask me product key and i dont have one what can i do???

Hi, i am changing the motherboard on this computer of mine as one of the RAM slots and a PCI-E slot have stopped working. I have OEM version of Win 7 which i upgraded to Win 10 on this. I had also created a USB media for Win 10. Looking at some of the forums, i can see that some people say that...

Whenever I print something in Windows 7 I need to restart my print spooler to get it to print. If I simply upgrade to Windows 10 will that problem follow me? If so, is there anything special I need to know about doing a clean install? I've never done one before. I have Windows 7 Home Premium...

Recently I made a clean install of Windows 10. I was currently on Windows 8.1. I did not wait for that free update but instead went for that clean install and ruined my free Windows update and now I am lacking lots of features because of it. Problem now is I want to revert back to Windows 8.1...

I want to reinstall Windows 10 Pro (clean install) on my 2 in 1 tablet because its becoming very slow. 1. If I do a backup and after the clean install I restore (the backup), will it be the same as if I had kept it the way it was (slow; without taking into account the components itself: wear and...

I am running a pc with an i3 4170 processor, gigabyte h97m-d3h mobo, 6 gigs of ram and a gtx 650 video card. I upgraded to windows 10 a couple of months ago and some time after that i was getting hit with bsods of different errors at random times. My response was to use the reset feature on w10...

Hi, I'm currently using a Lenovo Y510P laptop, which I bought with an OEM installed, but I've removed it and clean installed Windows 10 with a recovery media I made with Microsoft's tool Anyways.. in the process, I've noticed my laptop has a lot of, probably some unneccesary partitions left by...

I want to clean install Windows 10 on a Windows 7 system. I downloaded a windows 10 ISO file and created an installation DVD. Do I need to perform an upgrade from Win 7 first and then perform a clean install of Win 10? One source I've read says that this is no longer necessary (How to clean...

Hi everyone, I wanted to do a clean install of Windows 10 from Windows 7 and created a usb drive for that. Since I wanted to do a clean install I backed up all my data. When I booted up from the usb drive everything goes fine. I can/could go to the setup menu and set everything up. I think I...

Hi! My computer bsods since I got it. A friend of mine built it. I did not tell him my problem, but if it persists I think I'll tell him. If you can help me solve the following problems by myself, I'll be glad, since he's a selfish and he'll, of course, want money because he didn't built my PC...