Windows 10 Clean Installation Guide

Just liked your mistake post by mistake

BTW, what is the best uninstaller APP thus far?

 

Someone has to pay @Phoenix for his throughout guides. I made a guide for madVR before and it took me more than one full day of work to make it and I probably should make one again to give a hand to madVR newcomers.

 

This post is really important in this guide!

Spent a good few minutes looking for this list!

 

Revo Uninstaller Pro Portable (it's more expensive but can be used on multiple systems without the need to register)

 

http://www.videohelp.com/software/LAV-Filters-Megamix
http://www.videohelp.com/software/ReClock-Directshow-Filter

that is all you need

just make sure that the audio is properly configured and mpc uses reclock

 

The settings within madVR themselves and guide to install it for newcomers - http://dobresculaboratories.blogspot.ro/p/page1.html

 

I think bro @Phoenix will be more than happy if we send him... y00 know?

 

Just installed Windows 10 Crapstone 2 (Creators Update) using the video which was recently added in the OP by Mr. Fox and removed the following from the ISO so it's not even there from the get go:

- All Windows Store Joke Apps
- Windows Defender
- System Restore
- Home Group
- Telemetry
and lots more

My taptop has never felt faster. This is like a Windows 7 OS but with improved hardware support. Classic Shell, Classic Calculator, Classic everything.....

Thanks a million Mr. Fox, without you I would've never figured out how to use this tool Speaking of the tool, soon it will be updated to have a GUI

@Papusan @hmscott @bloodhawk @Donald@HIDevolution @toughasnails

 

errrr looking forward to put it in your guide in detailed for noobs like me.. ^_^

 

Not a problem. Glad to know so many people are finding the video helpful. This is precisely the reason I go to the trouble of doing it. Your appreciation and success is my reward, Brother @Phoenix.

 

Your video is not featured on MajorGeeks by Mr. Timothy

Congratulations! you are on the biggest Software site on the internet bro!

 

Yes, I saw that. Very cool that he added it to the download page for the tool.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/msmg_toolkit.html

 

Mr. Tim is my friend. If you ever see any new app that is worthwhile, submit it to him and he will add it after reviewing it

 

Tomorrow I will recreate this Windows 10 Installation Guide with the new Redstone 2 update

 

That moment when the upgrade goes wrong and Windows decides to install itself 115 times for you

 

But maybe better than Bluescreen

 

@Phoenix: Disabling service like Connected Services and Telemetry will actually kill most telemetry collection.
I'll update to RS2 after few months, no one what it might break. I'll wait patiently.

 

@Mr. Fox @Porter @Papusan @Prema @bloodhawk @Donald@HIDevolution @John@OBSIDIAN-PC

Just formatted my 1TB 850 EVO and 4TB 850 EVO as a single partition spanned drive using the new Resilient File System (ReFS)





Note that this new file system does not even require to ever be checked for disk errors and is optimized for large video files which is exactly what I have on it, all my videos libraries

 

I need to read moe on what that dues though

 

Key benefits
Resiliency
ReFS introduces new features that can precisely detect corruptions and also fix those corruptions while remaining online, helping provide increased integrity and availability for your data:

• Integrity-streams - ReFS uses checksums for metadata and optionally for file data, giving ReFS the ability to reliably detect corruptions.
• Storage Spaces integration - When used in conjunction with a mirror or parity space, ReFS can automatically repair detected corruptions using the alternate copy of the data provided by Storage Spaces. Repair processes are both localized to the area of corruption and performed online, requiring no volume downtime.
• Salvaging data - If a volume becomes corrupted and an alternate copy of the corrupted data doesn't exist, ReFS removes the corrupt data from the namespace. ReFS keeps the volume online while it handles most non-correctable corruptions, but there are rare cases that require ReFS to take the volume offline.
• Proactive error correction - In addition to validating data before reads and writes, ReFS introduces a data integrity scanner, known as a scrubber. This scrubber periodically scans the volume, identifying latent corruptions and proactively triggering a repair of corrupt data.

Performance
In addition to providing resiliency improvements, ReFS introduces new features for performance-sensitive and virtualized workloads. Real-time tier optimization, block cloning, and sparse VDL are good examples of the evolving capabilities of ReFS, which are designed to support dynamic and diverse workloads:

• Real-time tier optimization - Real-time tier optimization delivers both high performance and also capacity efficient storage for your data. To do so, ReFS divides a volume into two logical storage groups, known as tiers. These tiers can have their own drive and resiliency types, allowing each tier to optimize for either performance or capacity. Some example configurations include:
  
  Performance tier Capacity tier
  Mirrored SSD Mirrored HDD
  Mirrored SSD Parity SSD
  Mirrored SSD Parity HDD
  • Once these tiers are configured, ReFS use them to deliver fast storage for hot data and capacity-efficient storage for cold data:
    • All writes will occur in the performance tier, and large chunks of data that remain in the performance tier will be efficiently moved to the capacity tier in real-time.
    • If using a hybrid deployment (mixing flash and HDD drives), the cache in Storage Spaces Direct will help accelerate reads, reducing the effect of data fragmentation characteristic of virtualized workloads. Otherwise, if using an all-flash deployment, reads will also occur in the performance tier.
• Accelerated VM operations - ReFS introduces new functionality specifically targeted to improve the performance of virtualized workloads:
  
  • Block cloning - Block cloning accelerates copy operations, enabling quick, low-impact VM checkpoint merge operations.
  • Sparse VDL - Sparse VDL allows ReFS to zero files rapidly, reducing the time needed to create fixed VHDs from 10s of minutes to mere seconds.
• Variable cluster sizes - ReFS supports both 4K and 64K cluster sizes. 4K is the recommended cluster size for most deployments, but 64K clusters are appropriate for large, sequential IO workloads.
  

Scalability
ReFS is designed to support extremely large data sets--millions of terabytes--without negatively impacting performance, achieving greater scale than prior file systems.

 

Thanks for tagging me on this.
Will geek over this tomorrow

Sent from my MI 5 using Tapatalk

 

j00 tag me and I tag j00



I have to keep you up to date on the latest tech stuff thanks to your super awesome Obsidian Tool. That's the least I can do for your hard work

 

Read through it just now.

All of this is free and only requires us to reformat it ?

Guess that it is time...

 

@Phoenix: How did change your drive icons? Pretty nice.

 

SSD Drive Icons

 

Damn

Hold your horses. It says not Bootable.

 

Problem with clean install and mSATA SSD.

I did a clean install last night using the latest win10 download with this Creator update, But i ran into problems booting from my mSATA SSD .
My computer came with an 1TB 2.5HDD, I found an mSATA slot on the motherboard and i fitted an 256GB SSD, Now you cannot boot from an mSATA SSD so Windows boots from the HDD and then switches to the SSD where Windows is installed, and this has worked great, I have done around 20 clean installs constantly dowloading and installing the latest version of Windows.

But yesterday i downloaded the latest version of Windows with the creator update, everything installed fine but on reboot i got the message my OS could not be detected, I think it`s looking for my OS on my 1TB HDD and not checking the 256GB SSD where it is installed.

Once i get this OS not found message, if i reboot and press esc a few time it will boot into my OS, but i have to do this everytime i restart my computer.

I have redone the clean install a couple of time and i get the same booting problem, So i have been forced to dig out on old version of Win10 and after installing it, everything is back to normal.

So if you have you OS on an mSATA SSD this Creator might cause you boot problems if you do a clean install.

John.

 

You might have detach those drives and install windows with mSATA drive connected. It will work most of the time, if it doesn't file a bug report to MSFT.

 

It`s must be a bug, But how many other people will have a setup like me, it was only by chance i spotted the msata interface on my motherboard, I will just do the updates instead of a clean install.

Is there anyway i can download the last Win10x64 version before the Creator update messed everything up, Is there an Archive?

John.

 

Download link for Win 10 https://tb.rg-adguard.net/index.php
As for installing on a system with multiple drives use @Phoenix recommended step by step guide

 

I need Windows 10 Home x64 in UK English, all i can find is single language, the only home version is for China

John.

 

Just select Windows 10 Pro + Home in edition drop down menu and language as English International which is UK English in disguise.

 

Well the clean install went fine, no problems on reboot.

Thanks

John.

 

First phase of the Windows 10 Creators Update Clean Installation Guide has been re-built:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...lean-installation-guide.781178/#post-10085611

 

What is this creators update?

Is it worth the hassle?

 

What is Windows 10 Creators Update?

 

Looks like there's some bloadtware at least...

 

Microsoft Creators Update, April 11 , 2017 Rollout
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...l-11-2017-rollout.803115/page-5#post-10503774

 

Those OOBE settings page looks like Windows 10 mobile OOBE page.

 

Hey, did you forget to change this part in post #16 or did you delete the instructions in the first page by accident?

 

yeah no need to do this, will delete it

 

DO NOT UPDATE TO 15063.138

- Graphics switching stopped working (SCM app fails hard)
- Laptop won't turn on without battery power
- Hibernating Issues (screen stays off when opened)
- Random restarts
- Crashing
- Games won't open like "League Of Legends"

... list goes on... I'm working my ass off to rollback to my previous version and there's no option even in programs and features.

I tried Programs and Features (Installed Updates) the new update was hidden...
I tried to remove with command-line and it failed
I tried the new advanced start-up and it failed

System Restore offered me to remove the new update forcefully and seems like it worked
Successfully downgraded from 15063.138 to 15063.13

P.S the 15063.13 has a ton of issues too but at-least the machine is usable.
I do not recommend "Redstone 2" on MSI machines as of now...


Currently testing the results

Hopefully MSI updates everything!

New thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...rget-msi-laptops-with-multiple-issues.803661/

 

And people ask why I haven't done a upgrade to Windoze "Crematory" Edition yet I ain't paid by Micr$haft for debugging their new colorful Cartoon OS build. Why should I let them use my machine as TEST MACHINE AKA THEIR GUINEA PIG ?

 

Check this out: http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...rget-msi-laptops-with-multiple-issues.803661/

 

Thanks. I will take a look
Sorry posted wrong link in my last reply regarding TEST MACHINE AKA THEIR GUINEA PIG Please re-read

 

I do have a problem with this.

Some smartphones and even audiophile devices have been having this type of problems, but windows is my main work machine. It is uacceptable for my work machine to get unusable.

I also have seen how pestering that windows update can be - now I hate the whole process as well.

 

It's up to all being M$'s - everyone's unpaid...



Edit: Btw I love the way M$ make it easy!!

 

Man, I was working and I wanted for that freaking update to leave me alone. It interrupted me over 5 times to tell me that I should update. WTF.

It only installed bloatware and now the icons for actions recommended are back. This is the worst windows update ever from this point of view.

 

I have 0 issues with it albeit it's a clean install not an upgrade Oh and I don't have System restore, it's completely disabled on my system. Macrium Reflect backups FTW

Real men don't enable System Restore (not that it has ever worked when I did need it to restore my system) @Mr. Fox

 

@Phoenix - what whole system level EQ are you using besides the original one that comes with the laptop ? Any software that works well?