Hello all!
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R Is it possible to do a full clean install of windows 10 on another hard drive than the one you originally upgraded it on?
Quick rundown of what's happened to get me to this point on my desktop gaming rig. Bought Windows 8 day 1, installed (hey I got it for an amazing deal!). About 1 1/2 - 2 years later, started having problems. Never fixed the problem, but essentially there was an issue with the...windows store I think it's called? Not the marketplace, but the service that allows you to do things like recover/refresh/restart, fix corrupt files, etc. I was able to work around it, but never fixed it.
During the process, thinking my hard drive was bad (it was old) I got a new one and used the HDD migration tool to copy over my existing OS and files without reformatting. For a while, this made things unstable, but just as I was giving up hope, windows 10 came out and I upgraded. Things seemed to work great, until all of a sudden I'm getting crashes, lag, etc.
OK, went to do the windows 10 restart option, doesn't work! After exhausting research, and trying every option, I think it comes back to the same issue I had originally with windows 8, meaning when it upgraded to 10, those bad files must have been kept, does that even make sense?
Anyway, so I'm about done with it. I am out of options other than to format it seems like, but I don't have any reliable way to back up my 1TB of stuff.
My plan was to install windows 10 on my old hard drive and use the current hard drive as a second, storage drive. Is that even possible, or might there be windows licence issues?
Or any other advice would be great. I am considering buying a new external hard drive and backing everything up and just doing a clean install, but that would be last resort since money is tight.
Thanks and sorry for the long post
TL
R Is it possible to do a full clean install of windows 10 on another hard drive than the one you originally upgraded it on?Quick rundown of what's happened to get me to this point on my desktop gaming rig. Bought Windows 8 day 1, installed (hey I got it for an amazing deal!). About 1 1/2 - 2 years later, started having problems. Never fixed the problem, but essentially there was an issue with the...windows store I think it's called? Not the marketplace, but the service that allows you to do things like recover/refresh/restart, fix corrupt files, etc. I was able to work around it, but never fixed it.
During the process, thinking my hard drive was bad (it was old) I got a new one and used the HDD migration tool to copy over my existing OS and files without reformatting. For a while, this made things unstable, but just as I was giving up hope, windows 10 came out and I upgraded. Things seemed to work great, until all of a sudden I'm getting crashes, lag, etc.
OK, went to do the windows 10 restart option, doesn't work! After exhausting research, and trying every option, I think it comes back to the same issue I had originally with windows 8, meaning when it upgraded to 10, those bad files must have been kept, does that even make sense?
Anyway, so I'm about done with it. I am out of options other than to format it seems like, but I don't have any reliable way to back up my 1TB of stuff.
My plan was to install windows 10 on my old hard drive and use the current hard drive as a second, storage drive. Is that even possible, or might there be windows licence issues?
Or any other advice would be great. I am considering buying a new external hard drive and backing everything up and just doing a clean install, but that would be last resort since money is tight.
Thanks and sorry for the long post
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