Windows 10: Prepare For Clean Install of WIN10 OEM DVD on Dual-Boot Win10 & Linux

I want to wipe my HDD and clean-install Win10 (1809) as sole OS. Currently have Win10 and Linux Mint 18.3 as dual boot.

The Win10 partition has been corrupted so I won't be doing a restore or upgrade, just a new installation.

I did try Shawn Brink's tutorial on doing a clean install but ran into problems when choosing the partition to put it into. Even though I deleted the previous Win10 partition contents and now shows as unallocated, every partition stated that it had an MBR in it and I couldn't install.

I had to use the Linux "Gparted" command as the old Win10 is non-functional and inaccessible.





QUESTION: does the new Win10 DVD include a MBR as part of the installation process? I'm thinking back to when I built a PC from scratch and installed a HDD and then installed Win17 without any difficulties.

Suggestions more than welcome. Thanks.

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Dual-boot Win10/7 or go back to Win 7

I run a dual boot of win7 and win10.
I got 2x2TB barracudas and 2x512GB barracudas.
Unfortunately I once used the 512GB drives as raid0, just to fool around and so.
Got win 7 through an Acronis backup on the 2TB drive which runs fine, but used the raid for win8.1, again to fool around with.
Took some hassle to remove that dual boot since I didn't liked 8.1. But now win10 on the raid, still fooling around.

Takes some work to get things corrected if I want to move win10 to a different drive, but that's ok.
Just a bit too lazy to get an extra drive, and curious to see how long this inefficient raid setup will do actually. Only had to do a drive repair once, after installing win10 and some bsod (due to my own fault).

So my advice is to buy an extra drive, a sata3 2TB drive or whatever you can afford, and put it in dual boot.
The nice thing about extra drives is that they last you longer because you will use 1 of them for most of the time, leaving the others reasonably intact.
Windows 10 runs dual boot just as with previous versions, so shouldn't pose a problem.

 

Clean install of Win10

I purchased Win10 Download yesterday because the upgrade that somehow was done on my pc had many problems. Using the downloaded file it did what appears to be an upgrade again. While things are better, I want to do a clean install of Win10. I burned the
.iso file to a DVD. I booted the pc on the DVD drive but everything looks like just the upgrade. All my stuff is there, which normally is good, but I want to start all over. I've researched and can't find definitive steps on how.

Please tell me how?

 

Dual Boot Win10 & Win8.1

I setup a dual boot system for Win10 and Win8.1 because I need to run software for a client that is not Win10 compliant. But after the installation of Win10 it says that it is not activated. How do I activate the Win10 system?