New ssd harddrive for OS, need help with OS installation

Hi, My son has a Dell laptop that was working fine till 2 nights ago. It was running over night and when he looked at it he found the following: Fixing (c:) Stage 1:19% (170788 to 886784); Total: 6%; ETA: 21:05:55 He tells me the ETA number...

I got a seagate 1 tb hard disk that i have been using in my computer. But after swapping my old motherboard with a new asus h81m-k motherboard, the hard disk no longer shows up in my bios. Solved, it was a compatability issue with my motherboard....

A while ago I fried my Alienware 17 hard drive due to it getting stuck in a repair loop and I turned it off to many times. After that I tried to clean and restart my HP Envy laptop, but as it was loading in factory settings, the computer overheated...

How do I do a clean install of win 10? Do I format the harddirve and the install win 10 or is that wrong? Would the harddrive make the unit just shutoff and reboot ramdonly? Or will re-install windows cure the problem? Thanks

Has anyone heard of any problems with installing 10 on a separate hard drive with another os system like 7 ? I want to get rid of my 8.1 installation and go with 10 but I did have a few problems with the 7 install even though it was disconnected...