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I know a lot of you guys on here swear by Macrium but I tend to rely on System Restore, clean install using Reset PC or clean install using Media Creation Tool if Reset PC fails. That's always been good enough for me. I back up all of my important Documents and files to USB flash drive on a weekly basis. It works OK for me because I don't have masses of stuff to install again but obviously Id prefer not to have issues which is why I asked for feedback from you guys on here who have an SSD and Games and Apps installed on a secondary standard internal HDD.
Do the methods I use for clean install with Reset PC and MCT clean install that I described above sound OK to you? They were :-
" I sometimes use the Reset this PC option to clean install in Settings/Recovery but to ensure a clean install I don't keep personal files I always select to remove everything. I would also clean everything off the D: drive at the same time. Would there be any issues there? I would install games and other programmes back to the empty D: drive later
I only use the Media Creation Tool as a last resort to clean install Windows 10 and in that case I delete all partitions during Windows Setup including all partitions on both C: and D: . That leaves two lots of unallocated space (one for the SSD and one for the internal HDD). Then I just select the SSD and click next to install Windows 10. After Windows is installed I use Disk Management to create a new simple volume on the unallocated HDD and give it a drive letter"