Windows 10: Will reinstalling Windows 10 erase the old copy of Win10?

Discus and support Will reinstalling Windows 10 erase the old copy of Win10? in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; Hey all, my computer was in need of an upgrade and I decided to see what all this Ryzen hype was about these days. I'm going from an i5-6600k to a... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/ConfiscatedConundrum, Apr 13, 2021.

  1. Will reinstalling Windows 10 erase the old copy of Win10?


    Hey all, my computer was in need of an upgrade and I decided to see what all this Ryzen hype was about these days. I'm going from an i5-6600k to a Ryzen 7 3700x. Alongside a MSI B550 Gaming plus mobo. The SSD I used with the old cpu/motherboard won't boot in bios, so I'm reinstalling windows on a flash drive and booting the pc that way. Will this fresh install overwrite the Win10 on the SSD once I get it booted? I'm a little green to the installing software version of the pc build. Thanks for any and all help!

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    /u/ConfiscatedConundrum, Apr 13, 2021
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  2. puma99dk| Win User

    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:
     
    puma99dk|, Apr 13, 2021
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  3. user33331 Win User
    Win10: windows update stuck at never ending loop ?

    When in win10:
    • Update&security -> Windows update -> Finding update... .... .... ....
    Planning to download the latest Win10.ISO (vers.1803) and manually update:
    - Then wait that my ordered new SSD arrives and clone the old HDD to it.
     
    user33331, Apr 13, 2021
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  4. erixx Win User

    Will reinstalling Windows 10 erase the old copy of Win10?

    Windows 10 Club

    I am building a dual boot with win10pro and win10 home. one for work and one for games.
    Step by step win10 RTM got worse, no idea why. Also my X99 board was not working well, too much warm reboot locks. Updating to November upgrade was a loop-hell, just like going from 8.1 to 10, i must be damned by nighly witches.... so I decided to reinstall from scratch.
    Horrors:
    1. The Media Creation Tool downloaded ... W10 pre-november, so again another step needed
    2. During install NO USB keyboard or mice worked, be it usb2 or 3 ports. tested with all kb's inhouse. none worked. As this never happende before I tried removing bios battery, and adding a old usb2 port... it worked! (hopefully now my OC will also be much better, lol)
    3. After win8 created 2 partitions on the left: Recover and Efi, win 10 created another on the right of the system partition.
    Is there a way to know if anything at all is inside these recovery partitions? Recovery never worked for me... I'd like to erase, leave only EFI...
     
    erixx, Apr 13, 2021
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