Thanks so much for your encouragement.
So i successfully swapped my drives and did a fresh OS install. I did NOT download the gigabyte control center this time, and instead went to their website and downloaded the drivers, so none of the bloatware. However, im wondering if it will have full functionality/efficiency without the Gigabyte Control Center. Everything WAS going smoothly and i was very happy to have a (mostly) bloat free computer without crazy webs of folder chaos. hahaha BUT I must have messed up my windows install because this time around it would NOT let me do a local install, and it forced me to create a microsoft account, which I REALLY didnt want to do. When I downloaded my music production software it partially backed up some of it do OneDrive, and my software warned me that this had occurred. I changed the onedrive settings to not backup anything, and tried to install software again, and again it did this. I completely signed out of and disabled OneDrive and tried again, and same thing. So i deleted onedrive "completely" and yet again same thing. Finally went into gpedit and disabled the default onedrive backup, and it still is doing it. I must have deleted and reinstalled this one program five or six times last night.
Going to ask my uncle for his usb with microsoft on it, as that was the one i used first and it made me a local account. Unless I just missed a really obvious option to set up locally.
