Reinstalling windows 10 from a DVDPost Date: 2020-01-17 |
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Roxxsmom
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Topic: Reinstalling windows 10 from a DVD Posted: 17 Jan 2020 at 11:47am |
I'm in the process of replacing the hard drive on my digital storm
desktop Vanquish 7 series (it should be delivered by this evening), and I will need to
re-install the operating system (Windows 10). I received a little silver
thumb drive with system information and OS on it when I got the
computer, and subsequently used it during a service call where the OS
and system files needed to be reinstalled. Unfortunately,
this thumb drive is no longer working. I get a message that it is
unreadable and needs to be reformatted when I insert it in my laptop (a
windows 8.1 lenovo machine I am using as a backup while the Digital Storm computer is unavailable). I am guessing this
means the little silver disk got corrupted somehow while sitting around inits box in my closet, so I will have to
use the DVD that came with my Digital Storm Computer to reinstall
windows 10. I don't have a DVD drive on my
Digital storm computer, though I have an old external one I can plug in
that will hopefully be detected. I can't find instructions on
reinstalling windows 10 from a DVD anywhere--they all assume I'll be
using a thumb drive with the backed up files and OS etc (the computer's
hard drive died very abruptly so no system backups were made, aside from
what was already on the now useless silver thumb drive. Does anyone
have any advice here? Also, any advice on
making a new system backup on a new thumb drive once I have (hopefully)
reinstalled Windows 10 on the new drive and gotten my computer working
again? System specs are: Processor: intel core i7 -8700k 6core 3.70 GHz Motherboard:ASUS/MSI (intel Z370 chipset) System memory: 16GB DDR4 3000MHx Digital Storm performance series Power supply 600W Digital Storm performance series (supports up to NVIDIA GTX 1080 GPU Storage set one (which is dead): 1xSSD (240 GB digital Storm performance series, which is an XPG m.2 NVMe) (Replacement drive will be a Samsung 970 Evo plus SSD 500GB m.2 NVMe) Storage Set two: 1x Storage 2TB toshiba Video card is a 1x Geforce GTX 1070Ti 8Gb Edited by Roxxsmom - 17 Jan 2020 at 11:54am |
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Cretae
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Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jan 2020 at 4:50am |
First, it occurs to me that your laptop may be the culprit when trying to read your thumb drive. Try changing the bios on your Vanquish to boot from a thumbdrive and see what happens.
Second, I think the best way I would approach the re-install from disk would be to unplug any other drives you have besides the new NVMe. Go into your BIOS, and select the external DVD as the boot drive. Put in the Windows DVD and boot the Vanquish. If I recall correctly, the DVD will tell you what to do automatically. Having only your new drive active will take any guesswork out of which drive to install to. When the installation is complete, go into the BIOS and change the boot drive to your NVMe. Boot up to see everything's cool, then power down and reconnect your other drives. I haven't done this in so long, I may be off a little, but not too much. If you're hesitant, I'm pretty sure if you Google "installing win 10 from a disc" you might get a hit. |
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