Hi,
First post here!
I hope everyone is well and good. If this post should be in another location, please let me know. I have got a new PC and have Windows 11 installed. I have four drives in the machine. Two are SSD's on the motherboard and the other two are older 3.5 inch ones from my previous PC that I got the guy to hook up when I collected my new PC. The 3.5 inch ones just have data and project files on them. Windows is installed on C: on the drive on the motherboard. For peace of mind, if I want to ever install a fresh copy of Windows 11, I had a few questions in relation to it:
1. Is it really nescessary to disconnect ALL drives except the one I want to install a new fresh copy of Windows 11 to? I think I have seen this in a video on YouTube before. Does simply telling Windows during the installation that I want it to install to C: do the trick?
2. If I did install a fresh Windows, what about all of the hardward like CPU, GPU, Ram, RGB lighting etc, will the drivers for all of these parts get installed automatically or would I have to go and find them manually online?
3. I am in the process of installing my programs. I have a Macrium Reflect image of the C: drive now as it stands, with the programs that I have installed so far that are working fine. If anything goes wrong in this process of installing more programs, is it easy enough to just tell Macrium to load that image and Windows will work fine as a result of that?
4. Can someone point me to the process of getting a fresh copy installed? I did this a good while back with Windows 10, but just want to know the process for Windos 11 as it has been some time! The guy I got the PC from says I don't need a code/serial and that it is build into my system.
I am sure I will have more questions soon, but these as ones I wanted to start with.
If this helps, my main system specs are:
Asus Strix X670E-E Gaming WiFi
Ryzen 9 7950X
3080 Ti Suprim X
Corsair DDR5 64GB Dominator Platinum RGB
980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB
970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB
iCUE H150i ELITE LCD Display Liquid CPU Cooler
Thanks
First post here!
I hope everyone is well and good. If this post should be in another location, please let me know. I have got a new PC and have Windows 11 installed. I have four drives in the machine. Two are SSD's on the motherboard and the other two are older 3.5 inch ones from my previous PC that I got the guy to hook up when I collected my new PC. The 3.5 inch ones just have data and project files on them. Windows is installed on C: on the drive on the motherboard. For peace of mind, if I want to ever install a fresh copy of Windows 11, I had a few questions in relation to it:
1. Is it really nescessary to disconnect ALL drives except the one I want to install a new fresh copy of Windows 11 to? I think I have seen this in a video on YouTube before. Does simply telling Windows during the installation that I want it to install to C: do the trick?
2. If I did install a fresh Windows, what about all of the hardward like CPU, GPU, Ram, RGB lighting etc, will the drivers for all of these parts get installed automatically or would I have to go and find them manually online?
3. I am in the process of installing my programs. I have a Macrium Reflect image of the C: drive now as it stands, with the programs that I have installed so far that are working fine. If anything goes wrong in this process of installing more programs, is it easy enough to just tell Macrium to load that image and Windows will work fine as a result of that?
4. Can someone point me to the process of getting a fresh copy installed? I did this a good while back with Windows 10, but just want to know the process for Windos 11 as it has been some time! The guy I got the PC from says I don't need a code/serial and that it is build into my system.
I am sure I will have more questions soon, but these as ones I wanted to start with.
If this helps, my main system specs are:
Asus Strix X670E-E Gaming WiFi
Ryzen 9 7950X
3080 Ti Suprim X
Corsair DDR5 64GB Dominator Platinum RGB
980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB
970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB
iCUE H150i ELITE LCD Display Liquid CPU Cooler
Thanks
- Windows Build/Version
- Windows 11 Pro 22H2 Build: 22621.1105
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11 Professional
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom build
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X
- Motherboard
- ASUS ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming WiFi
- Memory
- DOMINATOR® PLATINUM RGB 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 DRAM 5200MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI GeForce RTX™ 3080 Ti SUPRIM X 12GB
- Hard Drives
- 980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB
970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB
- PSU
- Corsair HX1000 1000 W 80+ Platinum
- Case
- Fractal Design Meshify 2
- Cooling
- iCUE H150i ELITE LCD Display Liquid CPU Cooler