Windows 10: Laptop has ran into an error during clean Windows 10 install

Decided to do a clean reinstall of Windows 10 on the laptop since it was clogged up completely. It's a couple year old Dell Inspiron 15 7560. The PC came with a bootable USB that you could use to do a reinstall of Windows 10.

Plugged in the bootable USB, selected the "recover from a drive", it worked up to 5% after which it gave an error of "there was a problem resetting this PC". And it gives this error again and again. The PC has nowhere to boot from except the bootable USB and no factory image. No idea what is causing the error and stopping the installation of Windows 10, please help.

Thank you.

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Is it time for Windows 10 already?

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

How to clean install Windows 10 from a USB drive - Software - Feature - HEXUS.net

 

Clean Install Workaround for Vista

You may remember this news story on techPowerUp! a couple of days ago relating to the lack of clean installs when using the Upgrade Editions of Vista, which required an old OS to be installed. However, Paul Thurrott has managed to find a workaround for this issue, which ironically lets users do a clean install Vista without any previous version of Windows, albeit a little tedious. Here are the steps:

• Boot from the Windows Vista Upgrade DVD as normal
• When prompted for a product code, leave this blank
• Select the version of Vista you have purchased and let Vista install
• When you boot to your desktop for the first time, run the Vista setup from Windows
• This time enter your product key
• When asked whether you want to do an Upgrade of Custom install, select custom and choose a clean install
• Windows will now install for a second time and you should be able to activate it

Remember, these steps are only advised for use in order to achieve a clean install of Vista, it is only legal to use the upgrade editions if you have previously purchased the appropriate version of Windows.

Source: DailyTech

 

Cleaning off a Mac Laptop

cleaning it?

Step 1: buy about a half gallon of gasoline.

Step 2: douse laptop in gasoline.

Step 3: toss a burning match onto laptop.

Step 4: watch the fire clense your laptop.