Windows 10: An absolutely stupid problem//can I install win10 into the win8.1 recovery partition?

Coupla days ago a friend of mine brought her laptop to me, said it "doesn't restart", lol. It just boots into the win8.1 recovery tool.

Plugged the HDD into my desktop, checked it with Victoria, almost perfect condition. She forgot the password, so I plugged my win10 flash and tried to use recovery image.

Nothing. It said that the recovery was successful after around 30 minutes of loading, yet it loaded into the recovery tool once again. Also, I can use only the latest, "critical update" recovery image, the other two just return me to the main menu of the RT.

The question is (if you guys don't have any other suggestions, of course), will it work if I install win10 into the recovery partition (after formatting it) and just delete the windows folder of the old system?

Yeah, modern problems require modern solutions, but I really don't want to copy 250-ish GB onto my precious HDD.

Thanks in advance.

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