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MikeB

MikeB

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Pc has been on the go for 3-4 years, have a myriad of ssd’s and nvmes etc.

Going to start with a fresh nvme (4tb) and add other drives back as necessary, I have backed up doc photos etc, made a windows install on iso.

What else would you recommend I download now so I am good to go quickly when reinstalling?
 
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Something like a winstall package maybe
Or wingetui
Or your own custom winget text file
All of those in one way or another allow you to
Automatically download and install softwares you want/need
Mostly with silent install no need to click next,next etc
Definitely saves time
Ninite is another example but has far less software choices available
 
Updated bios, coming at it more from large exe’s type thing, I do have a 1GB internet connection so can redownload stuff I guess.

Plan was to set steam, ubi, gamepass,gog etc off overnight
 
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Plan was to set steam, ubi, gamepass,gog etc off overnight
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Ninite is your friend. You'll be able to install all those launchers easily. Copy over the libraries from your SSDs, preferably to a single tree - e.g. \games\steam, \games\gog etc. Then just fire up the launchers individually and point them to the locations of your libraries.
 
Will look into that, thanks, ultimately my ocd wants the libraries in single drives, for example I have steam over 4 drives
 
I have gone for it, clean as a daisy, started with 4 ssd ( 1tb, 480, 480 and 256), two nvme (2tb and 1tb) and a hd (1tb) down to 2 nvme (4tb and 2tb) , 3 ssd (1tb, 480,480) and really fast nvme external drive

Placebo no doubt, but pc is reborn, everything lightening quick so far
 
Almost as bad as me :cry:
Got 5 x m2 and 4 x 2.5 ssds

Yeah clean install definitely is quicker
Once all my softwares installed
Even though I disable everything I don't need from
Loading at start up
It definitely takes a bit longer to boot fully into windows

Out of interest
What external nvme do you have?
Got a couple 1GBs external drives
But since I have usb 4 ports and thunderbolt ports
Been thinking of an external that's faster to make the most of
What this motherboard is capable of
 
Probably be 1GBs then for 10 quid
Been looking at ones for 2GBs
Or even 4GBs as my board supports it
Thunderbolt enclosures seem to be expensive
Or 10Gbs,20Gbs,40Gbs is probably how they are listed on amazon etc
No idea why but my brain defaults to GBs for external drives
 
It’s literally an empty case with a nvme to usb interface so you can plug in as external drive

Just had a play transferring from internal nvme to external, copied massive file with average of 450mbps, went between 250 and 700, that will do me
 
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When installing the OS make sure all other drives are disconnected.

This will stop Windows storing anything on these that shouldn't be on them during the install
 
All done, disconnected everything bar the new drive, installed the basics, then added the rest one by one and formatting them
 
There's been a ton of changes in the last few releases - it's worth trying again if you haven't used it recently (there's a lot more people working on it now than there was before - it used to be just one person and now it's nigh on 200).



M.
 
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