What should I know before formatting my disc c (windows 11)?

mjamp

Should I Uninstall all my native products and after formatting disc c: reinstall everything? Or it's not how it works? And I have komplete s88 mk3 keyboard, will my new operating system recognize it?

DunedinDragon

Well if you're formatting it's the same as starting over, so you have to install everything. But I'd highly recommend you get all your basic devices such as network, audio and other input/output devices all working and stable before you move onto software and software associated devices like you S88 MK3. Hopefully you won't have to load the device software on your S88 because that should still be there. You'll just have to reconfigure it into Kontakt and Komplete Kontrol as well as your DAW.

If your disk C is not a SSD storage device you might want to get that replaced before you start formatting and loading.

BIF

Reformatting your C partition? I haven't done that on this DAW since about 2008 and about 3 motherboards ago, maybe 4. So that's terrifying. I'm curious…why?

mjamp

Don't know exactly, but my PC just crashes from time to time, and nothing helps.. My friend, who is Computer specialist, suggested to reformat disc C:

mjamp

I guess , the problem is not because my PC is old. I have SSd disc 2 TB as disc c: and it,s brand new, also I have ryzen 7 and 32 gb RAM..

BIF

Okay, I'm glad you mentioned those things.

I'm still a believer that you probably don't need to reinstall Windows.

• When it crashes, what happens? Blue screen? Or just goes blank/turns off/other? If blue screen, what is the message you get, and is it always the same message?
• Have you kept all of your drivers and OS up to date?
• Your motherboard and chipset might need an update; typically this would be done with an installer that runs in windows.
• Your motherboard might need a BIOS update to eliminate or fix some CPU, video, or memory incompatibilities. Some BIOS updates can be done in Windows now, but the old way was to use a thumb drive inserted into a specific USB port upon boot.
• What kind of graphic chip do you use…for example, is it part of the CPU (a CPU+GPU is called an APU), or is it a completely separate graphic card?
• Your graphic card or chip might need a driver update. If you use AMD or Nvida, then you'll update via their "portal/installer".
• Your network chip/card might need a driver update.
• Windows itself might need an update.
• Your hard drive or SSD(s) might need firmware updates.

I will say that at times, I'll go through a month or two where one of my Windows machines will crash (with a blue-screen). But I keep everything updated, and eventually it stops.

See if you can check on the bullet points above, and let us know how it's going.

PK The DJ

A "computer specialist" suggested reformatting? Hmmm…

As BIF says, it's probably not necessary, or even if you did reformat, that's not a guaranteed solution, as it could be a hardware fault.

chk071

No problem with the Native Instruments plugins, but, make sure that you also check other plugins. Some DO cause problems with authorization when you just delete them without unauthorizing.