Post-Overclocking Questions

I was looking really hard at one of those 250GB drives. Then I looked at my bank balance and talked myself out of it pretty quick. :P
 
Darren said:
I was looking really hard at one of those 250GB drives. Then I looked at my bank balance and talked myself out of it pretty quick. :p
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I probably ought not to have bought it, but I have a bit less self-control over my funds when somethings on a good deal. I usually don't regret it thankfully :p
 
Here's the ChkDsk details from the main partition of the C: Drive Windows is installed on. No errors during the scan. I'll run some more to be sure. Let me know if you need any other ChkDsk details for troubleshooting assistance.
 

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Looks like I'll be clean installing on Thursday to the new EVO 850. Nothing is working whatsoever. On the bright side, I set up my 1TB external hard drive as NAS. So I have a nice convenient place to move some of my more pertinent files.

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On that note, I'm capable of using the Windows 10 Creation Tool and whatnot, it's currently adding the Windows 10 Installation stuff to one of my flash drives, and I'm capable of walking through the process of installation, but I have a question. Since I'm installing it on a different drive, would I just want to re-format the original SSD to wipe it of the Windows files? Or is there something more special I should do?

Thanks.
 
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Am I going to be able to install and boot to Windows from the EVO and then format the Sandisk? I'm just making sure there won't be any issues with multiple copies of Windows being connected.
 
Will this end up wiping the other two attached hard drives in the process of installation?

Sorry for the menial questions, I've never needed to clean install/reinstall an OS before.
 
Disconnect all drives except for the new SSD that way no boot files will be placed on the other drives. After windows is installed, you can connect the other drives.
 
So I won't lose any programs or files on the other drives whatsoever? Sweet. Here I was under the impression I would lose everything connected. I guess the thing is, is if the issue arises again it's like from something on one of the other connected drives.

Thanks for the help John!
 
You won't lose anything per say, but you'll have to reinstall any programs that were installed previously, but any personal data can be copied over to the new install or you can leave those drives as data drives and won't have to copy anything over.
 
The way I currently have the computer set up is that all of my programs are on the C:/ drive (Sandisk 128GB SSD), but all personal data (games, documents, text files, powerpoints, excel sheets, music, videos and pictures) are on one of the other two HDDs, completely separate from the Windows drive.

My windows drive is purely Windows and the programs of the computer, everything else is on the other drives.

So this means no loss of data other than the programs themselves?
 
Usually the safest/easiest bet is to unplug the other drives while you're installing Windows (leaving only the OS drive connected).
 
Of note though, you only have to wipe the drive you're installing the OS on. I've reinstalled Windows several times on my SSD with my HDD still plugged in. It lets you select where it goes. That said, unplugging isn't a bad idea either, but not required.

Oh, you can basically tell Steam where all your games are saved and it'll do any necessary adjustments when you first launch them so you don't have to completely redownload and reinstall.

Also, I kind of thing that the USB it uses isn't bootable, you just run the setup from the USB drive. Not 100% sure, but I remember trying to boot from it and not being able to find it in BIOS and ended up just running the setup on the USB while in Windows.
 
Darren said:
Also, I kind of thing that the USB it uses isn't bootable, you just run the setup from the USB drive. Not 100% sure, but I remember trying to boot from it and not being able to find it in BIOS and ended up just running the setup on the USB while in Windows.
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You can do both :D
 
Origin Saint said:
this new Windows installation/re-installation process and all of the options Microsoft gave us seems pretty damn cool.
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Because they realize that most machines will have issues during or after the upgrade. Thats why they are also allowing windows 10 new activations with your old windows 7 or 8 key.
 
Success! :cool:

I was able to install to the new EVO 850, wipe the old drive and reformat it, and then while I was installing my programs again, I managed to figure out what I'm pretty sure was the culprit for the issues I was having.

Core Temp. :mad:

Once I installed it and ran it, the context menu and programs started behaving the way they would on start-up before. Looks like I won't be using that ever again.

Everything seems to be going really smoothly so far, thanks for all the help mates!
 
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