Recent content by dpluigi

This great. I can use it to help with my current template I ran within my Win 11 Pro Rufus boot USB thumb drive... It is very complete and comprehensive. Thanks for sharing this tool.

Thanks for clarifying. I will disconnect physically the Sata drives. It sounded to easy to make Windows see the related folder with the registry change... it will be simple enough to rename the folders and then move data in the new relocated folder. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Hello @Brink, I have actually cloned my primary 1Tb SSD on a 2Tb SSD and I swapped them. The original 1Tb SSD is an external NMVMe m.2 enclosure and my backup now, so there is no need for Windows.old. Note the recovery partition is between the C: OS partition and the empty partition...

Hello Brink, As long as the install saves the Windows.old I would then delete partitions on the OS drive. It would be safe then to leave a RAID0 drive connected, since I can move the shell folders later there - the old music, videos and pictures folders safeguarded there during the install...

Great tutorial Thank you for sharing @Brink, A couple of questions 1) In step 11, when selecting the Primary partition to install Windows, I usually delete all partitions of the drive I want to clean-install Windows. Would it be fine to delete all but the C partition on the selected drive for...

Hi @pseymour, Thank you for the detailed and clear reply and for doing teh test. Yes, my computer will keep the same device name. I'll change D:Users to D:Users_Old. I will start the clean install shortly.

That would be great if the backup methods work. I use a variant approach where in the unattend.xml file generated by Rufus, and located on my Windows install boot thumb drive in H:\sources\$OEM$\$$\Panther, I added this below to set ProfileDirectory: <FolderLocations>...

Cool, Thanks @Megahertz for the clarification. This is exactly what I had in mind, except, renaming the the full Users folder with all profiles in it - to be deleted later too. By move to an external Folder, you did mean to move (and not duplicate) your data around on the same D: drive, and not...

Hi @glasskuter, It might have not been clear in my previous posts but, in effect, I already have USERS relocated on D: following @Kari 's guide on relocating the Users tree and other related threads like the one started by @Rangoon with Windows 11 (see links below). It is done at the clean...

Hi @glasskuter, Thank you for your clarification and recommendation. Yes, I am setting up Local User Account on the Clean Install, Onedrive is not an issue, it is not started. The Users folder is located on a separate drive from OS drive right from the clean install steps and by using the...

Hi, This is an old thread but still relevant since I am planning a clean Windows 11 2H2 install, before adding Atlas OS over and, then moving on restoring at times large amount user data and programs - and this for three PCs. I was wondering if I could save and leverage the USERS from the Old...

Hi Antspants, Thank you for clarifying and confirming that although the CPUs (i-4710MQ and i7-7700K) from two of my three systems meet the CPU minimum requirements (SSE4.2 and POPcnt), they did not make the supported CPU shortlist published by Microsoft. It gives me the confidence to try and...

Hi, I am planning a clean install of Windows 11 24H2 on 3 of my PCs with CPUs: i9-9900k (Win 11 23H2), i7-7700k (Win 11 21H2) and i7-4710MQ (Win 11 23H2). I have been able to install Windows 11 23H2 on the i7-4710MQ using Rufus 4.5 for the hardware requirements. The requirement for SSE 4.2 is...