If you have tried any of the previously good suggested solutions and they did not work for you then
Remove the SSD/HDD and attach it to another computer via a USB Adapter.
Don't have another computer you say? Get another SSD/HDD and put it into troubled computer and install Windows, connect old drive via USB adapter to copy files over.
Or If you have an external USB HDD, you can burn a Linux distro to a USB Flash drive, and boot the troubled computer with it.
You can choose to Try Linux and use that OS to Browse your C: drive. Copy any files you want to the External USB HDD.
Once you are safely backed up, unplug the USB HDD and the Linux USB Flash drive. Insert the Windows installer and boot the USB Flash drive and
choose your Language, Choose Install Now and then Custom Install.
In Where Do You Want to Install Windows,
Delete ALL partitions and press Next.
To do a Clean Install of Windows.
I suggested he did that as well but you explained it better
@FatDragon4003
1) Save/copy all your files from your drive as above (you need another/new nvme drive/ssd and an external drive case - IMO the simplest option is buy an external drive case, take the old drive out of the computer, put the new drive in the computer. Put the old drive in the external enclosure.
2) Reinstall Windows on the new drive and set it all up.
3) Plug the usb hard drive enclosure into the computer and, within your new windows install, "read" the old drive and copy your files off it onto the computer.
4) This old drive in the hard drive enclosure can now be used as a back up drive, which is useful. Once you've copied all your files back on the computer, format the old drive in the usb enclosure to ntfs and just use it for future backups (you can copy all your files back onto it and you can also use it to make a SYSTEM IMAGE of your new set up. So if you ever need to start again in future, you just reinstall the system image.
If you don't want to take the back off and/or swap the drives over, then the other method suggested above is use a live linux usb - for that though you need another computer to download and make the linux usb (and likewise if installing windows onto a new drive you'd need to make the usb on another computer).
A reset is the easy way to reinstall but then you won't have your files saved. If it's really impossible to have access to another computer - or use a friend's laptop, then some Linux distros will let you buy a ready made usb stick.
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To boot that, you just put it in the computer, hit the escape button repeatedly until an options menu comes up, choose boot drive options, select the usb listed. A menu will come up offering to run it "live" or install it. You don't want to install it, or that will wipe all your files (and Windows) - you select run it live. What this does is let you use the linux without installing it - and from there you can see all your files on the Windows install. You will still need another external drive to copy all your files onto from windows.
Whichever method you use you're going to need an external usb drive to copy the files onto.
But if you want to reinstall windows from usb you need it downloaded on someone else's computer, to make the usb stick.
So to buy - for each option:
Either
a) a new nvme/ssd for the computer, an external hard drive enclosure (linked some below), a spare usb stick less than 32gb to put Windows on, use of someone's computer to download windows and make the usb stick.
Crucial NVME drive 500gb £45
Integral 250gb NVME £24.95
NVME external enclosure
Or
b) buy a linux usb stick to run live, buy an external hard drive back up to copy files onto. Reset computer (possibly cheaper option and no need to borrow a computer).
Linux usb as linked above £20
Seagate external hard drive 1tb £52.99
You can then use the external hard drive for backups/images once you've reinstalled
If you're looking for a longer term, secure option - I now use idrive, which backs up all files into the cloud daily and if you ever need them, you just download them again (not the same as one drive - idrive is purely a completely backup of all files that is accessible online and can be downloaded again). But that costs £99 a year. However it means you always have a back up even if an external hard drive fails.
