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Keep old windows install or clean install?

Carsomyr

Carsomyr

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Software Windows 10 64bit
I know it's generally recommended practice to do a clean windows install when you change components. But I wonder if any of you changed components, kept your install as if and ran into zero issues aside from the obvious driver updates one has to do...

I changed my motherboard, cpu, ram and psu rest is the same for now
 
Carsomyr said:
I know it's generally recommended practice to do a clean windows install when you change components. But I wonder if any of you changed components, kept your install as if and ran into zero issues aside from the obvious driver updates one has to do...

I changed my motherboard, cpu, ram and psu rest is the same for now
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Personally, I would fresh install given all the changes you've made.
 
Down load the new driver, do a windows restore, make sure not to keep old stuff.
I’d do a new install….
 
Carsomyr said:
I know it's generally recommended practice to do a clean windows install when you change components. But I wonder if any of you changed components, kept your install as if and ran into zero issues aside from the obvious driver updates one has to do...

I changed my motherboard, cpu, ram and psu rest is the same for now
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When you swap major components it suggested to remove those drivers at the least first
 
I changed my entire system (even swapping between Intel and AMD) at least 3, maybe 4 times with my current W10 install. Zero issues. Modern OSes are a lot more robust than people think.
 
My current Windows installation roots back several generations from Windows 7 on i5 4th gen, just clone to new drive and updates to Windows 10. All I did was remove old motherboard driver and devices before installing to new platform.
 
Ever since Win10 it's been fine to have a floating test copy of Windows for a variety of hardware.
That is to say, I'm able to get away with having a secondary/portable install where it's needed.
There are various changes in each build# so depending on that, it might be in your interest to reinstall.
"Ghost" components in the driver repo or general conflicts between this and that make it feel dirty.
 
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