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Ok so I won't leave anybody hanging as to what happened.
Started this morning, and got a little confused during the install as I wanted the install to be fresh. I had optioned custom, and did not want to save anything. Later there was an option for format so I selected that and away we went.
Finally arrived at a screen for two-step identification since the install was still in process I could not have MS E-mail me the code, and my back up to send the code to my home phone would not work. (is it ok to say merde?)
I did not want to call MS and talk to anybody from India: been there done that not a pleasant experience
Decided to do a chat session. I was in the MS chat queue counting down from 21 people.
The person answering (I think was in India) was no help at all. They could not understand what the two-step identification was.
I don't even think they read what you post as they ask the same questions again and again.
Finally I said I had hoped that if I provided my E-mail address, and telephone number they could get me a code to log into my MS account so I could continue with the install. The response was they were not equipped to do that. I ended the conversation.
In desperation I tried once more to get MS to call me and give me the code, and this time within seconds the phone rand, and the machine announced my code. Not bad only took about 1 1/2 hours for a code number.
Install looked good, and took a while to get all the downloads.
I was a little confused to see my old desk top show up on first boot? (I thought everything was supposed to be gone)
I also found 23 old shortcuts in my favorites that I hadn't seen in some time.
I did not find any "old " file where the install disc might have saved things.
I haven't yet loaded any software just to see if in this state if I have any crashes that were plaguing me before this install.
Everything seems to be running fine.
Ran SFC and had corrupted files unable to be repaired that had me say merde again.
Ran the DISM repair and it found and fixed the corruption.
Ran SFC again, and it found and repaired corruption.
Ran SFC one more time and 100 % ok this time. (Whew)
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