# Reinstalling Windows

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**Understanding RAID**

It's becoming increasingly more common for games to **ban disk serials**. There is **no undetected way** to permanently change your disk serials, so, **RAID** is your best option other than **replacing the drives entirely**. When using RAID on **Intel-based systems**, it's important to note that you **cannot RAID individual drives separately**; you need at least two drives of the same type or capacity. \
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This constraint arises because RAID configurations utilise the **smallest drive's capacity** as the total available space. For example, combining a 1TB drive and a 512GB drive will yield only 512GB of usable space. However, two 1TB drives in RAID can provide 2TB, leveraging mirroring effectively.<br>

For changing disk serials, replacing disks is an alternative method. RAID offers a reliable approach to alter serial numbers otherwise. On Intel systems, it's advisable to acquire two identical drives to set up RAID and manage disk serial numbers seamlessly.
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Requirements:

* At least 1x disk drive (consult your Motherboard manual to double-check).

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[amd-raid](https://0day-1.gitbook.io/perm/reinstalling-windows/reinstalling-windows/amd-raid)
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Requirements:

* Mainboard with a chipset from the `Z,X,W,Q,H` or `B` series.
* 2x NVMe/SATA drives

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[intel-raid](https://0day-1.gitbook.io/perm/reinstalling-windows/reinstalling-windows/intel-raid)
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If your system doesn't support RAID or you don't want to do RAID, feel free to reinstall normally.

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[regular-installation](https://0day-1.gitbook.io/perm/reinstalling-windows/reinstalling-windows/regular-installation)
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**Avoid Flags**

**Do no**t log in to the following applications with existing accounts after reinstalling Windows, create new accounts for each of these services or just don’t login:

1. Windows user account
2. GeForce Experience
3. OneDrive
4. Logitech G Hub
5. Steelseries
6. Razer
7. Similar software that interacts with the hardware
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