Windows 10: Anyone else having some issues appearing during a 2004 clean install

Hi All, Several days ago I clean installed version 2004 Build 19041.450. Ive done loads of clean installs with various versions over the years with no errors at all shown in the Reliability History. This time there were some differences (highlighted in Red for easy reference as I know its a long post) so Im posting to see if others are seeing the same or similar. Reliability Monitor had a couple of livekernelevent hardware errors that I was unable to pinpoint other than they appeared between the PC rebooting after the Windows files were installed by Windows setup and the OOBE beginning at the Select your Region screen.
After a Clean install-I always leave the USB drive inserted until installation has completed and Im back at the windows desktop. Then from taskbar I safely remove hardware and remove the USB. On this occasion Safely Remove Hardware wasnt available. I rebooted-and still not available. It also showed In Device Manager Unknown USB Device and Port Reset failed. So I shut down the PC and was going to remove the flash drive then but instead I just thought id try powering again up to see if that would Reset the Port and sure enough it did. Safely remove hardware reappeared so at that point I safely removed the flash drive. Im wondering if that was something to do with the Port Reset failure. Any thoughts on this?
Also for the first time in years I had a couple of yellow exclamations which included SM Bus controller and an unknown device which I knew would get sorted out when I installed the Intel Chipset drivers...its something I havent had to do before though after a Windows 10 clean installation. Usually during setup Windows 10 installs chipset drivers itself but this time that didnt happen either which may have caused this?
Another quirk not seen in years was the red cross on the speaker icon on the taskbar meaning that sound wasnt working. The first PC restart sorted that one out.
For several years now with Windows 10 Ive got used to Device Manager being totally free of any exclamation marks after a clean installation so I thought they were a thing from the past. Anyone else experiencing any of this?
EDIT-----I tried clean installing again to see what would happen. I still got the hardware errors appearing at exactly the same time. This time though Windows 10 installed chipset drivers as it always has in the past, so there were no exclamation marks in Device Manager. The Safely Remove Hardware Taskbar choice was missing again so I couldnt immediately remove the installation USB. This time there wasnt any problem with the red cross on the taskbar speaker icon though.
However an additional oddity this time was when I opened File Explorer the opening screen had the Navigation Pane disabled??
I have clean installed 1909 again to see if I have a hardware issue but as expected there were no errors whatsoever this time. I dont know what to do now..should I skip the 2004 clean installation altogether and instead create installation media for a 20H2 clean install with the MCT? It has been offered in Windows Updates for my PC. I dont usually install new feature updates though until a few months after their release. As Im not used to seeing any errors after clean installs its made me a bit uneasy. Are these issues nothing to be concerned about? Id appreciate others opinions?

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Clean Install Workaround for Vista

You may remember this news story on techPowerUp! a couple of days ago relating to the lack of clean installs when using the Upgrade Editions of Vista, which required an old OS to be installed. However, Paul Thurrott has managed to find a workaround for this issue, which ironically lets users do a clean install Vista without any previous version of Windows, albeit a little tedious. Here are the steps:

• Boot from the Windows Vista Upgrade DVD as normal
• When prompted for a product code, leave this blank
• Select the version of Vista you have purchased and let Vista install
• When you boot to your desktop for the first time, run the Vista setup from Windows
• This time enter your product key
• When asked whether you want to do an Upgrade of Custom install, select custom and choose a clean install
• Windows will now install for a second time and you should be able to activate it

Remember, these steps are only advised for use in order to achieve a clean install of Vista, it is only legal to use the upgrade editions if you have previously purchased the appropriate version of Windows.

Source: DailyTech

 

Windows 10 infinite restart black screen


The tutorials provided are just a list of troubleshooting steps. Use only the steps which apply to you.

Since none of the troubleshooting steps here worked, I'd suggest you do a Clean install.

John

 

Clean Install Windows 10 partition issue

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I appreciate the troubleshooting steps performed to resolve the issue. However, let’s try with the further troubleshooting steps and see if it works. Initially, I would suggest you to create a bootable media with a USB/Flash drive of capacity 8GB.
For better understanding, you may watch the video with the procedure from the article on
How to Clean Install Windows 10 on a PC Step-by-Step
Guide.

Set the boot priority to USB once after creating a bootable media using a USB and proceed with the Windows Installation. On the drive selection window, press Shift + F10 keys to open the Command Prompt. Then follow the steps listed
below:

• Type the following command in the Command Prompt window and press Enter:
  diskpart
  
• Once after executing the above command, type the following command to list the current drives and press Enter:
  list disk
  
• List disk will give you the list of drives, use the following command to select the drive and press Enter: select disk 0
  
• Type the following command to check if the disk is online: online disk
  (if the disk is not online)
  
• Type the following command to clean the drive and press Enter:
  clean
  
• To create a partition, type the following command and press Enter:
  create partition primary
  
• To select the partition that you created, type the following command and press Enter:
  select partition 1
  
• To set the partition active, type the following command and press Enter:
  active (if this is the boot partition)
  
• Type the following command to assign a drive letter and press Enter:
  assign letter(letter)
  

• After completing all this, close the command prompt screen and click on
  refresh button.
  
• Then you will only have one drive with “unallocated space”, just select the partition to start the installation.
  

Let us know how it goes and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Regards,

Mala S

Microsoft Community - Moderator