It all sounds very daunting, however it’s a risk I’m going to have to take as my system is in dire need of upgrading!
Only thing I’m worried about is if I have to reinstall windows, I’m not sure if I will be able to, here’s why.
A couple of days ago I tried to perform a windows “fresh start”. Upon starting this I got an error message saying something about a “boot environment”(I can’t remember exactly what it said). So I ended up moving the OS over to a USB flash drive and rebooting my pc with the intention of reinstalling windows back onto the original drive (Samsung 860 EVO 1tb SSD) but unfortunately I couldn’t do this because apparently the drive had to be set to “gpt” instead of “mbr”. So I tried everything from cleaning the drive, formatting it and of course, using command prompt to convert it. Nothing seemed to work and when trying to convert to gpt I got an error message saying that the drive can not be converted. At this point it would seem that I was locked out of my pc for good, although I suddenly remembered I still had my old SSD from before I upgraded to the current a couple of days ago. I entered the bios, booted the pc with the old SSD and I was actually able to get back to square one seemingly unscathed. I am extremely lucky for this but now I am left wondering if I will encounter the same problem when upgrading the parts listed above. What do you think?
It’s worth knowing aswell that I did all of the right things in the BIOS settings with regards to reinstalling windows from the flash drive such as changing boot priority to UEFI etc..
I was also on the phone to Microsoft for hours and they helped me to change the file on the flash drive to an ISO from a separate pc however, still no joy.
Any help with this situation of mine is greatly appreciated.