Windows 10: Will I be able to install Win10 upgrade on a new SSD?

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I appreciate all the feedback - thanks.

My objective is to do a clean OS install, and since I will be doing that I'd just as soon do it with Win10 even though I am perfectly happy with how Win7 works for me.

My underlying issue is that my SSD boot drive is 128GB and it has all my software and my OS on it, but no user data at all. After many years (my OS was initially installed on a HDD) the drive is now about half full, and most of that is bloat located in the WINSXS and DriverStore directories, and of course the Registry. (I install and delete a lot of software.) I do not want to propagate any of that bloat onto my new drive, hence the desire to do a clean install from a Win10 ISO.

From what I understand now the only way to get the WIn10 ISO is to upgrade my current Win7 drive to Win10 and then wait (how long???) for the Win10 ISO to become available. When it does I can use it to do a clean Win10 install on my new SSD.

This seems like an unreasonable burden and must be the result of some short-sighted thinking at Microsoft, but oh well. What I will probably do is (1) make an image backup of my current SSD, (2) do the Win10 upgrade, (3) make an image backup of that, and (4) restore my Win7 backup. I'll just hold on to my new SSD until the ISO becomes available because I'd rather not mess with an upgraded system and deal with whatever glitches that presents.

 

THAT sounds like a good plan*Smile. Just make sure and take the time to test and see if you can re-image. The only reason to reinstall win7 now would be if you are using MBR and want to switch to GPT partitioning for Win10(not necessary but some things like UEFI need it) you can always do that though when you clean install Win10.

 

Good point. I am currently using GPT/UEFI so that (thankfully) should not be an issue for me.