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[boredjedi]

I used to clean install Windows 95 and 98 on a regular basis back in the day. XP too but not so much with Windows 7.

But yea, nothing better than just flush the whole thing and begin again from scratch.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/soft...load/windows11

Create the bootable USB drive with Rufus. Then use Gpart to reformat the drive.
The only thing that's a pain in the butt is the reinstalling of the programs.
But it's usually worth it in the end. I hope the Windows updating won't be
too bad after the fresh install.

What I'm going to do first is just install windows and use it a few days without
installing anything including the AMD graphics drivers. I'll use the standard drivers.
Just windows that's it. No chipset stuff either. I wanna see if I get the same issues with the random blue screens
and the occasional files corruption when I do the chkdsk. I've posted about that in the past. It's actually been behaving itself with that.
I keep checking daily and so far no file corruptions.

I ran the sfc /scannow as well and all those dism command line cleanup and restore just a litle while ago. Not going to do the
reinstall right away. I'm going to play around with the current install for a while longer. I'll probably do the
reinstall next weekend.

I could just do the refresh install keeping the data and such but like I said nothing like a complete fresh start.

[boredjedi]

This all started with me just digging out the big guns



The old Saitek X45 so I can easily do the GTA V Flight trials. It's not that great flying with the keyboard and mouse.
I used it for when I played the game in the past and completed those Flight Trials with flying colors heh.

What is happening is that Windows is detecting it. Everything still works after 20+ years old even the axis springs
are still in good shape and it calibrates just fine.




The problem is GTA V isn't picking it up so I read up on it since it's been a while and I don't remember
how to get it working with the game. First thing is that it's supposed to be hooked up to a USB 2 port.
It's tends to go wonky with the newer USB 3 or higher. So I took it out of the USB 3 port and put it into
the one of the 2 USB 2 ports on the rear panel of the Motherboard.

Then I downloaded the drivers and the software. That's when the issue hit. The driver wouldn't install.
So now I have two devices giving trouble with that. The video card and the flight control stick.

I went poking around and ended up in the device manager and that's when I saw all those
Unknown Devices. They weren't there before the last time I went into that which was when I
got the new Keyboard and Mouse. So it's not that old of an issue.

I used that Flight stick when playing GTA San Andreas in 2004 ish. The same thing flying.

But yeah a controller got me into this rabbit hole (other than the video card driver updat)

Oh I see the Steph emotes are getting categorized.

That's a lot Stephs to choose from now and growing.

[chuft]

What is Rufus? What is Gpart? Why don't you just use the Windows tools for these things.

[boredjedi]

What is Rufus? What is Gpart? Why don't you just use the Windows tools for these things.

Rufus is that creating bootable media program for ISOs. Pooky brought it up one or two pages back.
And Gpart is a low level formatter. G-partition. You boot into the computer with it. I think it used Linux as
the boot OS. I have it burnt on the CD.

Correction the actual name if G-Parted. I just double checked.

It's the best even over Windows format.

[boredjedi]

Oh if you want to make sure you absolutely have no undetectable Trojan or Malware lingering on a drive's boot sector, G-Parted will take care of that.

[chuft]

Yes I saw she mentioned it, I've seen it mentioned before, but nobody ever explains what it is or what it's for. Why do you need a special tool to make bootable media? Somebody at work made me thumb drives for Win10 and Win11 installers in case I needed them. I don't think they used any third party tools like that. If the installer reformats the drive and installs Windows you are saying it doesn't reformat the boot sector and remake that as well?

So you use Rufus to make a bootable ISO of what? Not Windows apparently since you don't need it for that. Windows Media Creation Tool.

[boredjedi]

Oh looks like Microsoft changed the whole thing again.

When I was installing the Windows 11 on this new rig back in September 2022, I had to use the media creation tool to either create an ISO
or the bootable device. It was mandatory. There was no ISO to download. What the media creation tool would do is create the Windows ISO
with whatever current updates were available. It was the same with installing Windows 10 on the laptop.

You don't have to use the media creation tool now if you don't want but can download the ISO. Which I just did. At least it's current Windows11_24h2.ISO
I always preferred to create an ISO. And create the bootable media from that.

[boredjedi]

And this is the Rufus

[chuft]

>I always preferred to create an ISO. And create the bootable media from that.

But why

[LazyPooky]

Well, you can't use your harddisk, so if you want to do a new install of Windows you can use a bootable CD or USB stick. The latter is the most easy way, some computers don't even have a CD-rom drive anymore.

Usually when I do a fresh install with drivers and software, I create a partition backup once it's finished, so I don't have to reinstall again once it's needed (infection, malware, new device etc.). Just restore this partition and it's all good.

[boredjedi]

>I always preferred to create an ISO. And create the bootable media from that.

But why

No particular reason. Just old habits.

[chuft]

I meant why use third party software instead of just the Windows software to make the bootable install USB stick.

I have been using Windows since 2002 I think and have never had to do a re-install of Windows. It sounds strange to me that you two are always doing reinstalls.

What do you use to make the partition backup? Some Linux thumb drive and save the partition to a USB hard drive?

[chuft]

Just got a blue screen of death while reading a web page. Something about memory management. First blue screen ever on Windows 10. I suspect it was that recent update.

[boredjedi]

Starting to creep up on windows 10 now. Wonder if it's deliberate to force you to upgrade.

[chuft]

Were your blue screens about memory something or other? What did they say.

I know my graphics driver is out of date, I wonder if it could be that. This is not during gaming though.

I did just update Firefox recently, maybe it has a memory leak.

[boredjedi]

Mostly memory yes. 99% of the time. Other times it would have some other reason.
The usual complaint from others too.

[chuft]

So unlikely to be a bad RAM stick then.


Good old Microsoft.