Format & Re-install

SPECS: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6800K CPU @ 3.40GHz Thermal take water cooling X99-E mother board 64 GB of RAM NVMe SSD samsung 990 pro with heatsink 2tb Intel HDD 1TB Kingston SSD 400 GB Kingston SDD 200 GB Kingston SDD 200 GB msi power source (dont remember the specifics) Windows 10 pro I...

I have formatted my pc and my fps dropped in league of legends from 220 too 120 I have pretty good and new pc so that drop worries me a lot. if anyone have any idea i am happy to provide any information that can help. Thank you in advance for any ideas

I have formatted and installed windows so many times in the last few days due to some error or glitch. Sometimes the WIndows Start Menu won't open on pressing the Win key, other times many parts of control panel won't directly open give the error " The item you selected is unavailable it has...

Very recently i have tried to factory reset my macos but i screwed up by doing these exactly in order 1. I restarted my mac and entered recovery menu via command + r 2. I deleted my disk and renamed it , but i made a stupid mistake by restarting the macbook and not reinstalling the macos...

I have a microsoft surface pro tablet (windows 10 home) that recently went into a blue screen loop. None of the repair options worked so I'm content to just wipe data and reinstall OS. But it's requesting bitlocker encryption key and I have no way to acquire it. I've tried several diskpart...

Is there anyway to remove windows 11 from a pre-installed Alienware x15 laptop? I cant find the partition when i use the windows reinstall tool.

This issue has been frustrating me for almost a year now. I am very frustrated and I need help. For TLDR skip to bullet points. It all started in my last rig (Windows 10, i5-4460, 16Gb DDR3). The PC, while working perfectly, would randomly (usually when watching a movie) start stuttering, then...

So, I just want to reset my PC. Get rid of all my apps, files and start fresh. I've already backed everything up. However, everytime I try to reset my PC, i click "remove everything" and "Reinstall windows". It goes to 100% and then it restarts. And then it starts again normally, but nothing...

I have an existing computer with an SSD(Boot drive) and Seagate Sata hard drive on it. Since I'm changing cpu and motherboard, I'm buying a new M.2 Nvme SSD boot drive for windows but I'd like to reuse this hard drive. How do I go about formatting it and using it as a new blank hard drive?

Okay so i recently acquired a laptop from a deceased close friend. He had his user account on Windows 7 both password protected and protected with a fingerprint scanner. Since i can't login or create a new user, i want to format the ssd and hdd to install Windows 10. However, the setup cannot...

I'm doing a clean installation of Windows 10. I have two disk 512GB SSD and 1TB HDD. How many partition should I make, for OS, programs, VMs and Games. With 512GB SSD and 1TB HDD to play with, how should I distribute the partitions? It's a 64-bit system with 16 GB of RAM. What would you do...

If I have an SSD boot drive, and I reset Windows on that boot drive (completely erase everything), does that affect any additional drives such as an HDD? After resetting Windows/setting up a new boot drive: Do you need to partition the drive once more? Can you partition a drive more than once...

Hi just was curious but how often should i format my system because back then when i used a hard drive i would do it every year but now since i am using just SSD's i tend to wonder how often i should format it and the reason for me asking is because my main drive right now for my OS had about...

I have this laptop Toshiba Satellite with an i3 1st gen variant, where any internal storage such as hdd or ssd device you plug in as an internal storage (Laptop SATA port) will destroy the partition C: where the windows is currently installed. What may be the issue? I’m using this laptop earlier...

So lately I had to format and reinstall windows multiple times, probably 2-4 times because I'm still somewhat newb when it comes to PC, my PC is a pre-build and had everything installed. First I messed up device drivers and then downloaded many motherboard bloatware without knowing. It was a...

I've been using the same installation of Windows 10 Home for over 4 years, but for the last month my PC has been doing all sorts of annoying things like random crashes and blue screens and stuff, so I'm thinking about reinstalling Windows and this time I want to install Windows 10 Pro. I only...

I recently decided to reformat my windows PC because of how much it had slowed down over time. Instead of backing up all my data on a hard drive, I had synced everything into the one drive account connected to that login. However, reinstalling windows and logging in again, I found that none of...

Hey guys. I bought a ryzen 5 2600, a b450 tomahawk and 16gb corsair ram 3000mhz and I was thinking to take my pc to a local pc shop, but they want 60 euros and I thought that it isn't worth it. However I'm too scared to build it on my own! I need some courage. I have found a youtube video, where...

Currently have a PC with 2 drives and Windows 7 installed in one of them. I'm gonna be upgrading some parts also changing to Windows 10. As backing up important files is a mess and more often than not something gets left behind and only notice it when it's too late, i was wondering... Could i...

Hey, I own a Dell Inspiron 7566 which has 1TB HDD and 128 SSD. I check on ptimise drives and it lists my OS C: as an SSD w/ some other small drives as an SSD. At one point my OS C: was greater than 128 GB but after that time I partitioned my OS C: to make space for my linux partition which I...

So my desktop recently crashed and kept having a windows loop error. I ran a systems diagnosis and the hard drive failed the Short DST check. I figured I needed a new hard drive. I bought a new hard drive today and successfully put it in. I had the windows ISO file installed on a USB drive...

i want to reinstall windows 10 while keeping all my old info as they were like i want all my programs with their registries to keep functioning well and the same way they used to work but i don't want windows 10 old files to be backed up with them cause it has some problems, i'm trying to use...

My z97 died and I buyed a h81m should I format my computer to install this new motherboard?

which one to choose?...and why? i have no prefrence...both are close in price..just wanna know which has more features to offer