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Thanks for sharing this information. I'm going to be doing some research on the subject matter and do everything I can to prepare myself for when I do a clan install of Windows 10. There's a lot I need to take care of first before I get started on this such as making sure I have all the drivers I need to reinstall, make a list of all the programs I want to reinstall onto my system along with the games, make notes of all product keys of the programs I care for the most such as Vegas Pro 15 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018, create a backup containing settings and customizations for certain programs such as OBS Studio and Elgato Stream Deck mini, etc. Once everything is taken care of, I plan on doing this at around Christmas time as that is when I'm taking time off from content creation to spend time with family.

To answer your first question, the components and Windows 10 build were the same when I did the cloning originally. To answer your other question, before I cloned my HDD to my SSD, I was able to use Windows services such as Updates just fine, but after cloning, I can't do so any more and I have to download and install updates manually. Also, I've checked the integrity of my SSD and Samsung Magician software says that it's in good health. As far as doing a clean install is concerned, I'm worried about doing so, something going wrong, and then all I have is a big paperweight. I do have a backup of my most-important data such as documents, photos, music, etc. but not one for the operating system itself. I might look into something that can help with that, but I'm not sure where to start looking. I hear that Acronis True Image is pretty good, but I'm not too sure if it'll fit my needs or not. I've tried something similar before, Backblaze, but that didn't work out. I'll have to look more into it.

I'll answer your questions in order: For the first one, I have but they don't indicate the issue(s) I'm experiencing. The BSODs occur randomly meaning I could be doing something like watching videos on YouTube for example or I could be doing absolutely nothing and leave the computer idle and a BSOD could happen randomly. As for the second question, this is in relation to the first as temperatures seem fine and I don't notice any abnormities with them.

I have a tech-related question and I'm not sure if anyone here can help me with answering it and perhaps, I'm overthinking it but, here goes: I currently have 2 internal hard drives set up in my desktop PC; one's a 2.5" SSD while the other is a 3.5" HDD. The SSD is my C drive and it stores my OS, documents, photos, music, and program files. The other HDD currently stores my Steam games as well as a couple other things on it. I've been thinking of purchasing another SSD to replace the one I currently have as I've been experiencing some instability and frequent random BSODs. (Frequent as in at least 1 BSOD per day and every BSOD has a different stop error.) The SSD's health is fine and it should be operating normally from what I can tell from the command prompt on Windows 10. Whenever a BSOD occurs, I can usually resume normal operations after it finishes restarting. Lately, however, I have been experiencing a weird problem where my PC would lock up slowly and then freeze completely. The only way to "fix" this issue is to hard reset my PC via, the reset button on the computer tower itself. Then, everything is normal again...at least until it does it again randomly at another point in time. I know that I'm rambling at this point and I'll get to what I need to ask right now: If I were to reinstall Windows 10 onto the replacement SSD, will the second hard drive's data be accessible, and will doing this also resolve the random BSOD issues along with the random system lockup too? I've been experiencing other issues too besides the ones I've listed, like not being able to install Windows Updates from Windows Updates via, Settings, but I've been told by an IT professional that this issue is due to the fact that when I upgraded my HDD to an SSD and cloned my system, that is what caused that particular problem. Other problems like random BSODs are still a mystery. My system information is as follows: Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (Currently on build 2004) Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 @ 3.60GHz Motherboard: MSI - Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard RAM: PNY - XLR8 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600MHz Memory Graphics Card: MSI Nvidia GeForce 980Ti LE 6GB Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply If you need more information, please let me know what you need and I'll do my best to provide it.