How to reinstall windows 7 for a beginner?

Question

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How to properly reinstall windows 7? I saw a video where you can install directly from under the current windows, supposedly you put it right away on a disk with Windows and everything is replaced by itself, so the question is - is this so? And with such an installation, will all disks be formatted or will all this have to be done manually? And what about the drivers when reinstalling Windows, programs like winrar, player, etc.? What is needed and how.

Answer 1

Look at what you bet.
In general, the procedure is as follows:
1. Make a backup of user data. Naturally, on an external hard drive. Do not forget about non-obvious places where such data is stored, for example, the desktop.
2. Take an image of the system disk, including the boot sector (Aronis\analogues), create and test the bootable USB flash drive of the image recovery environment.
[optional] 3. In principle, it's good to have some kind of live assembly for diagnostics/recovery, just in case (Hiren's BootCD or more modern analogues) on a separate flash drive.
[optional] 4. Make a backup of drivers if there are exotic ones, for example, using driver pack solution.
[optional] 5. Write out separately all the passwords and other data that you may need. For example, WiFi password, Windows key, if licensed.
[optional] 6. If there is software that allows you to export your settings, and you will install it on a new system, export the settings to an external hard drive.
[optional] 7. If there is portable software on the system drive that you will use in the new system, copy it to an external hard drive.
[optional] 8. If you need to have a list of software that was installed on the computer for subsequent installation on a new system, you can use GeekUninstaller or an equivalent to create a list of installed software.
9. If there is no ready-made distribution, download and write to the required bootable media (optics\flash drive\external hard drive).
9. Disconnect the external disk with backups from the computer.
10. Reboot, if necessary, through the BIOS, specifying the connected bootable media with Windows.
11. When installing, at the stage of specifying a partition, clean the target disk / partitions (if the laptop has some nuances with the recovery partition from the manufacturer, but in extreme cases, we took the image in step 2). There are a lot of articles on the net about installation. Briefly - we delete partitions, create a new one of the required size from scratch (at least 60 GB, better - more, depending on the amount of software used), select it for installation.
12. We put.
13. At the first start, we make the basic settings, check if all the drivers are correctly picked up. If there are yellow triangles in the device manager, we are looking for drivers on the manufacturer's website, or we restore from the backup of the drivers made in step 4.
14. Install the main software. Set up software and Windows.
15. We remove the image of a freshly installed Windows with the main software. It will come in handy later if you need to "return everything to the way it was right after the reinstallation".
16. We use.
Attention: it is better not to erase the backup of the original system immediately, it often happens that after a week they remember "oh, there was the necessary file in the downloads \ on the desktop." When there is an image, connecting it as a virtual hard drive and getting the desired file is a matter of a couple of minutes.