Windows 10: I would like to fresh install my windows 10 without loosing my previous files videos data.

I would like to fresh install my windows 10 without loosing my previous files videos data.

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Is it time for Windows 10 already?

Here's a good step by step guide on doing a fresh install.

http://m.hexus.net/tech/features/software/85085-how-clean-install-windows-10-usb-drive/

 

Restore disk image to a fresh Windows 10 installation


What I'd like to do is:-

1. Make a system image backup to an external HDD.
2. Re-format drive C
3. Re-install Windows 10 from scratch
4. Restore all my apps and files (not many files as I keep almost all data on a separate partition.

Am I expecting the impossible and would the restore try to put the O/S exactly where it was before? The previous installation seems to reside in an unusual partition which I discovered when I tried to rescue windows 10 installation without loosing data and apps. This is the installation screen where I wanted to choose:-




As one can see, it tells me the current version of Windows is in an unsupported directory - not of my choosing when installed!
This is my disk partition table for C:-




I'd be extremely grateful for advice on this please?

 

Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

I'm going to be building a new PC on Christmas and want to install Windows 10 on it. I have Windows 10 on my current PC, which I installed upgrading from 8.1 with the files on a USB. How do I go about installing a clean copy of Windows 10 on this new PC? I think I recall something about installing it once makes Microsoft recognize your hardware, but since this will be a PC I'm not sure what steps I need to take. Do I need to go 8.1 -> 10 or is there a method of going directly to 10?