This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Last Wednesday's rollout of KB3194496 to Windows Insiders, which is a Cumulative Update to build 14393.222 for Windows 10 PCs, impacted a "subset of users" who were unable to complete the upgrade, and ...

A complete reset is rarely the answer anymore ...

An unofficial script is here and it aims to solve a major inconvenience related to Windows installations. The script enables users to switch Windows editions without having to clean install. Recently, ...

One key technique in the Windows repair playbook involves wiping out everything on the storage device (typically C:\) from which Windows boots and on which that OS resides. Prosaically enough, this ...

I went off the official path and still landed on a Windows install I’d recommend.