Windows 10: Clean install

Hi

All the info I have found on a clean install has been about the Insider Preview, when the official upgrade is available at the end of July, will I be able to do a clean install?

Thanks

Daniel

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To Clean Install...Or Not To Clean Install

A "clean install" by definition deletes all content of your drive, that's what the "clean" means. If you want to keep things it can't be a clean install, you have to upgrade.

Personally, I recommend you first update and get all the correct drivers for your devices and chase down the media to re-install your applications. Then save them on an external drive and do a clean install. You will have to re-install all software and re-configure,
but you end up with a lot less problems going forward.

The cost is greater but so is the reward.

A large proportion of the issues people report here seem to be due to not doing clean installs. My own experience is that a clean install with the new drivers works well. My PC respondes better than it did on Windows 7. Although it has a normal hard drive,
it boots as fast as my Notebook which has an SSD and is still on Windows 7.

Good Luck

 

To Clean Install...Or Not To Clean Install

Hi Michael,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I understand that you wish to do a clean install but I would suggest you not to do so until you have upgraded to Windows 10 and it has been activated.

Therefore, make sure you first upgrade to Windows 10 using the Get Windows 10 App or the .ISO image. Make sure the Windows 10 is Activated.

Please do not attempt a clean install if you haven't activated Windows 10 on your system.

Once you have successfully activated Windows 10 you can perform a clean install.

Hope this helps. Please respond if you have further related queries.

Regards,

 

My understanding is if you want the free version that will be available for 1 year you have to get it while booted into a supported version of Windows, either 7 with SP1 or 8.1 [not 8.0]. Supposedly later on you can do a clean re-install.

 

Hi

I will be doing it while in W8.1 update but if I cannot then use the downloaded file to do a clean install I will have to do a clean install of W8.1 and update it, but if I can do a clean install using the W10 file, I would prefer to do that.

Anyone know for sure?

Thanks

Daniel

 

The downloaded file while inside Win8.1 will be the one that Windows Update will use to do an in-place update to Win10.

To do a clean install, you need an ISO, and we don't know for sure when those will be available -- yet.

 

Okay, thanks for your help.

Cheers

Daniel

 

Of course you can cook your own ISO with ESDtoISO. How it will work with the serial number in the bios is something I am trying to find out. Dell site tells me my laptop is not supported by Windows 10, though it came with Windows 8.1 about a year ago.... It is still up in the air...

 

The biggest question then with 8 to 8.1 and done then,but will it or won't it this time, time will tell, hopefully so.