It must be install time again... Options

[PhonAntiPhon]

...I've got spare files all over the desktop and I'm trying to compare ini files...

[Renee]

Cool, I'm just starting to think of rebuilding my gaming computer, this time with TWO solid state drives; one for gaming, the other for other typical computer stuff such as the My Pictures, My Documents, and other Windows folders and programs, so it's perfect this thread just popped up. I forget why it was suggested I go for two drives, but I like the idea and so that's what I'm going for. Thing is, I ferking DROPPED my computers (both of them, but not at the same time. Even carrying one at a time was too much for me! ) last summer after just getting out of the hospital. Was trying to blow dust out of them but the left side of my body wasn't ready to carry even that much weight -- now, after months of PT and OT, I think it is. The home/office (non-gaming) HP I'm typing on now has a standard spinning hard drive. 500 GB I think. It survived its fall only because I dropped in some grass, I think.

But my gaming computer, I dropped right on a linoleum floor as I tried to position it on my crowded, old-fashioned gaming table. This table is so old I think it has a leather top. Anyway, I replaced its drive in August 2024 with a standard (non SSD) WD Blue drive. Got it working over a couple months, installed all my favorite games, and so on. I think it took until November of that year to get that desktop back to where it was. One thing I did RIGHT was I took a lot of notes on everything, including the reinstall of Obliviion I literally hijacked a thread started by TheCheshireKhajiit (with his permission) just so I could describe the reinstall of Oblivion piece by piece. So hopefully the process this time will be even smoother this time.

I am going to try getting Windows 10 back in place for these new drives. I missed the cutoff to buy the actual Windows 10 installation discs from Best Buy last summer/fall and I'm not interested in Win11; have heard horror stories from a friend about 11-- but thankfully I saved the link for an online 10 download here. Was able to use that link to get my gaming HP running in 2024, hope it still works this spring.

First though, I need to get some SSDs, which I'll do hopefully next week; make the actual hour-long drive to Micro Center so I can ask some techs this and that. From what I gather, one main difference between SSDs and old-fashioned hard drives is they aren't always 3.5 inch drives, and we don't have to be as strict where these SSDs wind up in the case, but I'd like to find some SSDs which are 3.5, if only because the way my case is designed, there are multiple 3.5 inch slots for drives which run top to bottom of my case-- I'll post a picture soon, when I'm ready to tear apart my gaming computer, removing its panel. I'll eat some spinach before trying to move it this time. 🌿

This post has been edited by Renee: Yesterday, 07:15 PM