If your drive is actually full that will cause many problems in Windows, because Windows would have no room for temporary files, virtual memory, system restore or disk management
Windows starting up on blue screen
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Im running into the blue screen on starting windows, it dosent let me continue, when i continue i go back to where i was after it loading, before this i had windows updates not updated i updated them and the pc crashed and american megatrends said i have disc error or something, i started with f1 and went into bios and checked off the automatic disk scan or something like that so i could get into the pc and it brought me here, no tutorial on youtube has helped yet
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Anonymous
2025-01-19T16:14:17+00:00 Windows is on the E
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DaveM121 936.3K Reputation points Independent Advisor2025-01-19T16:27:38+00:00 Your C drive has plenty of free space, so space is not the problem, also you only need to backup your files from the C drive before re-installing Windows, the other partitions will not be affected by re-installing Windows.
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Anonymous
2025-01-19T16:34:57+00:00 okay, done. how can i re-install windows?
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DaveM121 936.3K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2025-01-19T16:38:12+00:00 Boot your PC from the USB you created, then select the 'Custom: Install Windows Only' option to begin the installation.