Alright so I'm in sort of a complicated situation. My SSD (main drive) is a cluttered mess right now.

When I go into the boot menu, there are a ton of options for OSX because I tried turning my PC into a hackintosh. (dual boot win10 and OSX) and it didn't work well with my hardware so I gave up but some stuff is still there.

I'm also stuck with grub because when I uninstalled Linux a few months ago my PC didn't boot because I just deleted the entire linux partition and by extention, the bootloader. The only fix I could figure out for this was to boot into a linux mint live disk and reinstall grub. So now, I'm running only windows, yet using grub, and I'm also having some issues installing mint again.

So pretty much my SSD is an absolute mess and I want to completely format it so I can reinstall windows as if it's a brand new PC. The problem is I don't want to have to reinstall everything I currently have installed (Some music production related programs that are a pain to get activated through their respective DRM programs) and it would take up the rest of my night and maybe even a couple of days.

What I want to know is if there is a way I can wipe my entire SSD clean and reinstall windows, keeping the current, legitimate version I have, and also be able to back up everything so that I can restore it to its current state with everything still installed.

I'm posting here because I don't know if it really warrants its own post and this isn't exactly a tech support sub...

Anyway thanks for any help.

TL;DR - My SSD is cluttered with unnecessary stuff like boot options and I'm using grub even though I have one OS and I can't install linux probably because of the clutter. I want to format my drive but keep the current state of my legitimate copy of windows and also the programs.