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Morning,
I've got a tower with two 1TB HDDs - the first has the OS installed without a partition and the second was added further down the line (say... 6 months).
For the last two months it has bluescreened after an hour, hour and a half without fail - I've formatted my second drive however the first one I've not been able to do much with besides clean out as much data as possible through deletes and uninstalls.
Regardless the problem persists so it's definitely a problem with the first HDD - I've disconnected it completely and now trying to get an OS on the second drive.
Solutions I can think of are:
- using a bootable USB with a copy of an OS (have been struggling to do this again, seems to be different from when I did the original install on the first HDD (I don't have a disk drive))
- buying a USB disc drive and trying to install an OS on the second drive before the first bluescreens (don't see this happening desu, an hour isn't long enough?)
- creating a partition on the first drive and then moving the OS in to it, then formatting the un-partitioned section
Am I going the right way here or is there some obvious work around that I've missed??
Thanks in advance /wsr/
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Bump. Anyone?
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>For the last two months it has bluescreened after an hour, hour and a half without fail
are you sure its not a heat problem? is it summer time where you are at?
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>>348921
It could be, it's summer and we're hitting 35ºC easily, but I clean the insides regularly and this is the first summer of four which it has had this problem.
Quite often it´s just something like opening a tab on Chrome or when a video hits a certain note or some shit, it will just tank.
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>>348889
>>348923
Try pulling your graphics card out and using the onboard.
>>348889
You don't need to format anything to install Windows: just select the partition (and you do have a partition even on a drive with only one partition), and the installer will move any existing Windows to \windows.old\ . The only reason to format is that you want all the data gone.
If you do run Windows Installer inside an OS, it only runs inside that OS for the first "copying files" stage. This takes less than fifteen minutes, and doesn't take any time at all if you've already copied the files from the DVD/USB somewhere on the same partition you're installing to: the installer notices it doesn't need to copy anything so doesn't.
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