Windows 10: Windows 10 fresh installation on computer delivered with Win-10 OEM

I'm planning to perform a Win-10-Pro installation from scratch on a new notebook computer delivered with factory OEM pre-installed Win-10-Pro 64 bit version that, according to command prompt version number displayed, is a Win-10 build from version 1809 / 2018-October update. I have recently obtained the latest Win-10 64-bit DVD-ISO image download which is the newer 2019-May version and plan to perform a fresh install onto a NEW upgraded virgin hard disc drive that will be installed on the notebook computer prior to the fresh install. This computer is running BIOS in UEFI mode as confirmed by Windows System Information utility from the Win-10-Pro OEM version factory installation that I'm currently running on the factory installed hard disc. The clean install will likely be performed from optical media via the computer's on-board ODD (after I've written the DVD ISO downloaded from Microsoft to an appropriately sized optical disc). Currently, the factory installed Win-10-Pro OEM remains unactivated as I have not given the new computer internet access (neither wireless nor wired) yet since its first boot a few days ago. My questions on the above planned installation exercise are:

1. Since this computer is using UEFI, I am assuming that the Win-10-Pro OEM product key is already stored / embedded in UEFI. From what I have read from other online resources, when a Win-10 OEM product key is already embedded in UEFI, supposedly when a completely fresh installation of Win-10 is performed, the Win-10 installation process is supposed to detect the UEFI product key and use that key to set up Win-10 in the appropriate edition (i.e. Home or Pro, and OEM or non-OEM) accordingly. Is that correct?

2. Assuming the process described in [1] above is true, would a UEFI embedded product key allow for a NEWER version of Win-10 installed and result in the same edition mode (Pro OEM), since the factory installed release is from 2018-October and the version I'm installing from optical disc will be 2019-May?

3. Is it true that after installation, Win-10 will still need to be activated online as an OEM edition, even if product key is already stored in UEFI?

4. I understand that Windows activation can be sensitive to some hardware changes which may re-trigger activation hassles, so I am planning to upgrade and increase RAM amount and upgrade the HDD capacity BEFORE the fresh Win-10 installation is performed. So that upon first activation of the fresh installation, Windows activation will record the upgraded hardware configuration as opposed to the factory delivered hardware configuration. Is this the best approach for this scenario for the most number of available future changes to the hardware (none further of which are planned)?


Thanks for help / input / confirmation on the above questions.

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Windows 10 fresh installation on computer delivered with Win-10 OEM

I'm planning to perform a Win-10-Pro installation from scratch on a new notebook computer delivered with factory OEM pre-installed Win-10-Pro 64 bit version that, according to command prompt version number displayed, is a Win-10 build from version 1809 / 2018-October update. I have recently obtained the latest Win-10 64-bit DVD-ISO image download which is the newer 2019-May version and plan to perform a fresh install onto a NEW upgraded virgin hard disc drive that will be installed on the notebook computer prior to the fresh install. This computer is running BIOS in UEFI mode as confirmed by Windows System Information utility from the Win-10-Pro OEM version factory installation that I'm currently running on the factory installed hard disc. The clean install will likely be performed from optical media via the computer's on-board ODD (after I've written the DVD ISO downloaded from Microsoft to an appropriately sized optical disc). Currently, the factory installed Win-10-Pro OEM remains unactivated as I have not given the new computer internet access (neither wireless nor wired) yet since its first boot a few days ago. My questions on the above planned installation exercise are:

1. Since this computer is using UEFI, I am assuming that the Win-10-Pro OEM product key is already stored / embedded in UEFI. From what I have read from other online resources, when a Win-10 OEM product key is already embedded in UEFI, supposedly when a completely fresh installation of Win-10 is performed, the Win-10 installation process is supposed to detect the UEFI product key and use that key to set up Win-10 in the appropriate edition (i.e. Home or Pro, and OEM or non-OEM) accordingly. Is that correct?

2. Assuming the process described in [1] above is true, would a UEFI embedded product key allow for a NEWER version of Win-10 installed and result in the same edition mode (Pro OEM), since the factory installed release is from 2018-October and the version I'm installing from optical disc will be 2019-May?

3. Is it true that after installation, Win-10 will still need to be activated online as an OEM edition, even if product key is already stored in UEFI?

4. I understand that Windows activation can be sensitive to some hardware changes which may re-trigger activation hassles, so I am planning to upgrade and increase RAM amount and upgrade the HDD capacity BEFORE the fresh Win-10 installation is performed. So that upon first activation of the fresh installation, Windows activation will record the upgraded hardware configuration as opposed to the factory delivered hardware configuration. Is this the best approach for this scenario for the most number of available future changes to the hardware (none further of which are planned)?


Thanks for help / input / confirmation on the above questions.

 

Windows 10 fresh installation on computer delivered with Win-10 OEM

Assume, for example, you were clean installing to an empty disk. If you wished to reserve aone or more partitions for user data, say to the end of available space, you could create that, then install Win 10 to the remaining unallocated space.

Alternatively, clean install Win 10, then shrink C: and create the partiitons you want in the space released.

Of course if you have more than one disk you have more options.

The recovery partition is small- say 700Mb or so. The reserved partition is really small.




The recovery partition supports automatic repair, advanced boot options, boot to safe mode.
Without that you could achieve most but not all with a Win 10 boot disk.

 

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