Windows 10: Can a a non-bootable DVD Windows 10 ISO do a clean install?

It gets flagged, even by Malwarebytes, because it contains other software bundled into the installer. However, choosing custom install and rejecting the extra stuff is easy and gives you just ImgBurn. To me, the flagging by MBAM is too aggressive. There is nothing wrong with the main program of ImgBurn at all.

 

Right, I forgot about that since I automatically do custom installs of all software just for this reason.

 

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Thanks for the information. You got the old version that works fine for you.
Today I downloaded from that site, after unzip the file and tried to install - it is very problematic.
Don't know yet how much damage it has done to my computer. That's the computer I want to reformat the hard disk and do a clean install of Windows 10, so if it is damaged, that's OK.

When you got your copy long time ago, the site probably was not infected. Today, it is a very different world. I would like to let folks here know that I ran into big problems with the following site:

Download ImgBurn 2.5.7.0 for Windows - OldVersion.com

 

WOW ... And yet you said you had used IMGBurn before . So I gather you also installed the extra Crap like in pic below, huh ? LOL I just downloaded it again on one of my other comps and there NO VIRUS ....

 

@ Learner99 You know we both made mistakes and I will be first to apologize since I didn't realize you don't know about installing potentially unwanted programs with software . If you like I ( Or we here ) can help you with cleaning your system . What Anti-Virus and malware programs do you have . Also, if you can take a snap shot of the Programs and Features set up , we can get a better view as to what unwanted programs you might have . I suggest you download malwarebytes from site below, the free version is what you need

Malwarebytes | Free Anti-Malware & Internet Security Software

 

IMGBurn did not work for me after several attempts when trying to create the Win10 ISO after I was upgraded to Win10. No biggie, I was able to burn the Win10 Pro ISO via Windows Explorer using the Win10 built-in image burning app. Now, I was unable to get the Win10 ISO DVD to boot initially and I never had problems booting via my internal DVD/ISO in the past when using Win7. I tried several diff DVDs & made numerous changes in bios but was stump for about 1 hour. I eventually used an external USB DVD drive I had laying around and was able to boot from the Win10 DVD/ISO created above. This is all confusing too me, but I think it has something to do with the UEFI features Windows 10 uses. Since I totally skipped over Win8 I'm totally lacking in knowledge of the UEFI boot features/process. My external USB/DVD drive showed up in the bios as a UEFI device while my internal DVD drive did not??? Anyhow, Win10 installed cleaned and activated without any problems, with even my internal DVD burner showing and usable in Device Manager.

 

Most of the time it's the disk or the speed one uses . And, I believe it's always best to use the slow speed 2x but you're right with what you just mention

 

If the disk is viable and you can read it running setup on the disk from within your current valid, licensed OS should perform an upgrade install as if you had performed the upgrade over the net

 

Actually I'm confident it had something to do with the UEFI + secure boot in Win10. For some reason the external USB/DVD drive was color coded as being UEFI bootable, which I had to select as boot device. I didn't see any UEFI bootable devices before attaching my USB/DVD.

 

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Thanks for your post. I tried that. It reached a screen so that one can choose "Change What to Keep", and I chose "Keep Nothing". After all finished, I thought everything was gone - just a clean copy of the Windows 10, Oops I found my old Word document files are still there.

Ztruker is right, one can not do a "Clean Install" with a non-bootable Win 10 ISO.

Dch48: Please don't take it as an attack on you, that's just not my nature. I only report what I found (so that other folks here know).

sn00ker: Thanks for offering help. I did the re-install (see Dch48's post), and chose "Keep Nothing". Whatever the problems from downloading/installing imgburn, they were gone. Thanks again for your offering to help.

 

@Learner99 ... I'm glad things worked out for you but can I strongly suggested whenever you download a program and go to install always watch for the added stuff, those are usually nasty and you should always uncheck them and only install the program itself *Thumbs

 

Need help.
I don't have a bootable Win 10 ISO disk yet. (I have a non-bootable one.)
By reading, eventually I will be able to make one myself.
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After one has a bootable Win 10 ISO disk, how one starts the "Clean Install"?

1. Just insert that bootable disk, and turn on the computer. (suppose the booting sequence has been changed, CD/DVD Rom drive now has the first priority.)
And, it will start the clean install.

Or

2. Or, one needs to do something else first, like reformatting the hard drive. (I have not done this kind operation for ages. No longer remember as to how to do it. Vaguely remember that I used a bootable floppy, A:, that contains Format.com. Turn on the computer and boot from the A:, floppy. Then format the hard disk.) After formatting completed, insert the bootable Win 10 ISO, then turn on the computer.

Appreciate very much of your help on this.

 

You don't need to think too much.

When you boot from DVD/USB it will ask you.

If you want a clean install just format your drive (after agreeing the license terms) and the installer will take care of everything. It will automatically make all needed partitions. See here for details.. Windows 10 - Clean Install - Windows 10 Forums

Only, backup your documents and photos and so on first.

 

Wait a minute.

If I reformat the hard disk first, using a bootable floppy (contains Format.com) in A:.
Then use Dch48's method to reinstall the Windows 10 using the non-bootable Win 10 ISO.
That seems to be a "clean install".

Then I no longer need a bootable win 10 ISO disk to do the "clean install".

Update: Thanks to Halasz. I put up the above post before I saw your post.
Appreciate very much of your time and help.

 

Floppy?!? OMG.

Won't work, though, because you will have no way of running setup.exe from the DVD - which is a Windows program - without having some version of Windows running which the floppy won't be providing. The bootable DVD loads a stripped down version of Windows used to run the setup.exe.