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I have a few questions about clean install
Hello I have a few questions. I need to perform a clean reinstall, but this is my first time and I'm a little nervous. I read through the whole tutorial but it is a lot to take in. I'd say I'm not a newbie user, but I'm not advanced either so bear with me here.
1. Should I locate all of the drivers needed for my HP computer before the reinstall and back them up on my external hard drive? If so how would I go about doing so, especially when it comes to figuring out what drivers are needed and which are not? (I read the Bloatware thread but I am still a little worried about this..)
Or will my computer install all the drivers needed via Windows Updates?
2. I only have one flashdrive to boot from (unless you can boot from an external harddrive, and doing so won't delete the files that are already on it). My flashdrive is older, and was I believe advertised as 4GB at the time, but is only 3.79 GB (or somewhere around there). Is that large enough to boot from for a x64 Windows 7 Home Premium OS?
3. My OS came preinstalled, but I found the COA sticker with the windows product key. Is that enough for activation, or should I back up the OEM activation keys and such?
EDIT: Also my computer is a touch screen, but I never used this feature since I found it more of a pain than anything (especially if a small bug or something ended up flying into the screen and exited out all of my stuff). Does this change anything when it comes to the drivers?
Last edited by FloAmi; 10 May 2017 at 19:17. Reason: Forgot to mention something