Question Im stupid

[1jto]

excurse my "u" "j" spelling mistakes I got water on my keyboard. Anyways i jfurst recently installed a EVO 860 SSD and i intilized it and everything and so i click and dragged my 86x program files and it took like 4 hours to download. Anyways that inclurded a lot of my sturff and now I have to redownload all my steam games and shortcurts. Jurst wondering if this is normal or I really screwed urp bc i feel like I screwed urp. Also now I cant even download windows on my SSD bc all my programs take too murch space smh im so sturpid

 

[USAFRet]

ugh so theres no other way I can do this besides wiping everything?

Given the state of your system as it seems to be...that's what I would do.
If a family member brought their system to me in this condition, no question. Full wipe and reinstall.

 

[1jto]

Given the state of your system as it seems to be...that's what I would do.
If a family member brought their system to me in this condition, no question. Full wipe and reinstall.

How do I uninstall windows then bring it to my SSD or should I just worry abourt that later after I wipe everything?

 

[USAFRet]

You don't "uninstall" it.

You connect the SSD, and only the SSD.
You boot up from your Win 10 USB or DVD, and start the install process.
When it asks 'where', select Custom.
You'll be presented with a list of all partitions on that drive.
DELETE each one, leaving one blank space.
Proceed on with the install.

It is outlined in this tutorial. Read it through a few times. Section II, Step 6 & 7 speak to deleting all the partitions on that drive.

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

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[hang-the-9]

For any future computer work, make sure you do a bit of research on how to do what you want to do first. Taking 5 minutes to do a web search on "how do I install a new hard drive" or "how do I move windows to a new hard drive" would have saved you a lot of work.

There are cloning utilities made to copy the full contents of one drive to another when swapping disks.

 

[1jto]

You don't "uninstall" it.

You connect the SSD, and only the SSD.
You boot up from your Win 10 USB or DVD, and start the install process.
When it asks 'where', select Custom.
You'll be presented with a list of all partitions on that drive.
DELETE each one, leaving one blank space.
Proceed on with the install.

It is outlined in this tutorial. Read it through a few times. Section II, Step 6 & 7 speak to deleting all the partitions on that drive.

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...

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I dont have a windows 10 USB or Disk I bought my computer prebuilt. Also what happens to all my paid for programs when I have to wipe my computer clean?

 

[USAFRet]

I dont have a windows 10 USB or Disk I bought my computer prebuilt. Also what happens to all my paid for programs when I have to wipe my computer clean?

You create your own Win 10 USB, direct from Microsoft.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10


Your existing applications that you paid for?
Do you still have the original install file? The license key, if any?

Consider this as if your hard drive had died completely. You'd be doing all this same stuff.