How to reinstall windows 10

How to repair windows 10

There is a failure that is repeated with some frequency when performing a Windows installation from scratch on a PC, either using a DVD optical media or a USB-connected pendrive. This occurs when the installer is not able to recognize the internal storage drives or partitions, which prevents the installation from completing.

This option is usually enabled by default in the BIOS of laptops or modern motherboards and it is the one that prevents the recognition of storage drives in new installations from scratch if the installer does not have a specific driver for its support, which in this case corresponds to the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST).

Let’s put ourselves in the situation. You buy a new laptop without an operating system or you intend to perform a ‘clean’ installation from scratch of an existing one. You create your installation media with the ISO image of Windows 10 or Windows 11 and when you get ready to install you find something like the following image.

How to reinstall windows 10 without losing files and programs 2020

The reason for the progressive update is to prevent a possible failure from spreading quickly among a huge fleet of devices. For this Microsoft is based on a number of criteria. We know that devices with the latest hardware will be given preference in this process and will be able to upgrade as of today. For the rest of the devices, factors such as geographic location, the age of the equipment or the presence of certain software will determine when they receive the update.

If you want to check if you already have the update ready to download, you can try your luck by following these steps. Go to “Settings”, look for the “Update and Security” section and then enter “Windows Update” and “Check for updates”.

Downloading the ISO is complementary to the one you can perform through the update wizard or the media creation tool to manually force the update. From this link you can get the “Windows 11 Setup Wizard” and the “Media Creation Tool”, but also the Windows 11 ISO image.

Restore windows 10 to factory default from boot

With this measure, older computers are forced to continue with Windows 10, since the new version of the operating system can not be installed because it does not meet the requirements that the Redmond-based brand has imposed, but in computing, nothing is so effective that it can not be modified in some way. This means that there are several ways to avoid that requirements such as TPM, RAM or others, ask for the extraction of the new version of Windows.

The best of all is that we have several different ways to perform this process, which means that each person will do it with the one that is easier or more effective, since we will have the possibility to modify the registry in the middle of the configuration, create a USB installation disk or use the software called Rufus.

Thanks to RufusRufus is a free program that allows us to generate a Windows 11 installation disk on a USB flash drive configuring it so that we are no longer asked for the TPM, RAM and CPU requirements.

Install windows 10 and keep programs

One of the most common practices since Windows is Windows, is to solve almost any problem by taking the drastic measure of formatting the computer and reinstalling the operating system. So normal is it, that Microsoft itself decided to include the function within Windows 10.

Maybe you know it, maybe you don’t. But the option to reset the computer in Windows 10 can help you solve many problems on your computer by returning Windows to its original state, as newly installed, and best of all is that you also have the ability to do so and keep your files. We also leave you the tutorial to restore Windows 11 without losing anything.

If you are wondering how to know when it is time to restore the system, Microsoft gives you an answer that seems obvious and even funny: when the computer does not work properly and you are not sure why.

Remember that if in your case the failures appear after upgrading to a new version of Windows, you can always try the option to go back to a previous build, it is much faster than resetting and you lose absolutely nothing.