Windows 10: Windows 10 10240 Install.

Perhaps that's my problem. Used someone else's ESD to ISO file to fresh install, therefore identifies the same machine. His activated, whereas mine did not. Could that be it?

 

You can get a very good ISO from Microsoft New.. and I used it to upgrade from Win8.1 to 10240. SO it is a good version.

 

Do you have a link?

The insider program currently has this message and no link to ISO's:


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Thanks for being part of the program and helping shape Windows 10.

NOTE: We’re very close to the public release of Windows 10 so we’re not onboarding any new PCs to the Windows Insider Program just now. You can still onboard a supported Windows Phone and please do keep using Windows 10 on any PCs you’ve already set up and sending us great feedback!

At this point, it appears that Microsoft is not offering any downloadable copies of the Windows 10 10240 ISO.

To me, non-Microsoft online copies are suspect. You don't really know what they might contain. Lack of apparent malware activity is not proof the file is clean.

 

Windows 10 10240 ESD Download Here : Windows10

Microsoft update server ESDs have been linked to by reddit.

ESD to ISO - Create Bootable ISO from Windows 10 ESD File - Windows 10 Forums

 

Thanks, Fafhrd, but the link to download the 10 Insider link has been greyed out within the Insiders page, therefore no way to get the ISO. Here on this side of the pond anyway.





Edit:

The links that Fafhrd updated in his prior post are indeed correct. The pic attachment I've shown no longer applies in this scenario.

Good luck to all those in this predicament. *Smile

 

I'd like to order a medium Italian Stroboli. large Taco Pizza, and two orders of funnel fries.

15 minutes, number 10?
Ok, thanks
Yeah, I thought you might have already tried changing the keys *Tongue

 

LOL!

No fries > tator tots. You want Coke? *Biggrin

 

No funnel fries?
Well ok, skip the tator tots then.
No coke, Pepsi *Smile

 

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When reinstalling Build 10240, do not enter a Product Key at any time when asked. Skip these screens if you have previously activated Build 10240 on this device.

Assuming your Build 10240 is properly activated:
You can make a Recovery drive on a USB flash drive. You need a USB flash drive of 4GB or larger. Run recoverydrive.exe from within Windows 10 Build 10240. Check the box to include system files. This creates an OS image of Build 10240 on the bootable flash drive.

Add your new SSD as your boot drive, boot with the Recovery drive USB and do a reinstall of Windows 10. You can always disconnect your current hard disk if you are concerned about accidentally deleting it, as the recovery drive will repartition your hard disk.

My Samsung SSD recommends 10% un-partitioned space to be left at the end of the drive as "over provisioning" to optimize the performance and lifespan of the SSD. The recovery drive install will not set this up appropriately. If your SSD manufacturer also recommends over provisioning, you could edit a file called \Sources\$PBR_Diskpart.txt on the Recovery disk to create the unused space at the end of the disk if you wish. The basic steps you want the txt file script to do would be:

• create the Windows partition, as in the txt file
• shrink it by 10% of your total SSD disk space
• create a partition to fill the 10% empty space
• shrink the Windows partition by 450MB for Windows RE, as in the txt file
• create the 450MB Windows RE partition, as in the txt file (which will place it right after the Windows partition)
• select and delete the last partition to free up the 10% unused space for over provisioning

Some SSD's ship with partition management utilities to handle all of this after the fact for you too. If you are not familiar with diskpart, or editing script files, this would be a much easier method to use.

Build 10240 recovery disk $PBR_Diskpart.txt (without any over provisioning edits) for an MBR disk (UEFI partitions are different):
rem == ResetPartitions-BIOS.txt ==convert mbrrem == 1. System partition =========================create partition primary size=100format quick fs=ntfs label="System"assign letter="S"activerem == 2. Windows partition ========================rem == a. Create the Windows partition ==========create partition primary rem == b. Create space for the recovery tools partition ===shrink minimum=450rem == c. Prepare the Windows partition ========= format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"assign letter="W"rem == 3. Windows RE tools partition ===============create partition primaryformat quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE tools"assign letter="T"set id=0x27list volumeexit