Windows 10: Can't reinstall Windows 10 during "Fully Clean Drive"

Hello there,


I was aloud to get the "old" PC from a friend with Windows 10 Home on it. So, I went on and used the "Clean Drive" on the SSD of the recovery mode. During that, I had an electric outage. So after that, I went on and did the whole procedure again. With success.

It installed Windows 10 Pro, so I went on and bought a Win10 Pro license key.

It successfully was able to digitally license the Operating System from my Microsoft Account.


A day later, I'm having alot of BSODs. From RAM failures, to graphics, to drivers... Tried fixing them manually, by uninstalling and reinstalling them. Still crashing.


Took another course of action to try and "Clean Drive" and "Just my files" options on resetting my PC. Now it constantly fails. As if there's not image file on it to recover. What happened?


- If I download an image from the media tool onto the same SSD drive and try the same procedures again, will it work with the same Product Key?

- My fear is, after spending money on an official product key, if I download said image onto an external HD or CD/USB, will the Product Key still work?


It's the same PC with same Hardware and MS account after all?


Thank you for helping!


Cheers!

:)

 

Is it time for Windows 10 already?

Here's a good step by step guide on doing a fresh install.

How to clean install Windows 10 from a USB drive - Software - Feature - HEXUS.net

 

Reinstalling Windows 10 to sell a PC - is the 'Remove everything' option enough?

Restore factory settings do list Removes your personal files, apps and settings, and reinstalls the version of Windows that came on this PC.

So if this isn't true well than just erase the drive and install a clean Windows 10 with all the drivers u need but why should it be true
@FordGT90Concept ? *Laugh :laugh:

 

Windows 10 Reset and "Fully Clean The Drive" on SSD

Hi,

I have a quick question about the "Fully Clean The Drive" option for Windows 10...

I have read that if you are planning on selling your computer you should reset Windows 10 and select 'Fully Clean The Drive'. I have read this is 'similar' to running format.exe c:\ /P:0, which would overwrite the whole drive
with zeros, making data recovery from a traditional HDD pretty much impossible.

My questions are

1) What exactly does fully clean the drive do? Does it overwrite the WHOLE drive or just delete user files and overwrite the free space? Because if it were to overwrite the whole drive how could it reinstall windows because there
would be no remaining data on the drive.

2) How does fully clean the drive work on SSD's? A single overwrite on a SSD would not be sufficient to sanitise the drive unless a TRIM command was also issued. Would fully clean the drive issue a TRIM command?

I guess my main question is how likely is it you can recover user data after you 'fully clean the drive' on an SSD?

Thank you in advance!