Windows 10: Wiping my PC can I Install windows 10 without Prior Win OS?

You don't have to use windows update Brian, that's just one method,

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Thank You for adding that link Derek.

Removing my advice *Smile

Just as long as the OP understands he must upgrade from 7 or 8 or 8.1 etc in order to get Windows 10 free, then do his future clean installs, that`s all that matters *Smile

 

I want to thank everybody for their help and advice. I did my wiping on my computer. I'm now installing updates to my Windows 8 installation.

My next question is, after I install all the updates for my windows 8 installation should I just download Windows 8.1 via windows update or do I just use the Windows 8.1 DVD I created from the ISO file same thing goes for my windows 10 DVD I created from the ISO file? I am thinking going the DVD route for both windows 8.1 and windows 10 would be the best method. Do you guys agree?

Also, I know @AddRAM mentioned about doing an image or a reset as an option for doing cleaning installs in the future, but I would like to make sure does everybody agree for me to change this way of doing things. I do notice it takes quite some time to take care of this.

Thank you!

 

Everybody's help and advice explained the way you were doing things was completely unnecessary but it appears your doing the same thing again .

Take their advice is what i would say and upgrade to Win 10 via the instructions on this forum and let it activate , you can then do a clean install if you wish or just do a refresh for Win 10 and your done. Why you keep messing with Win 8 is beyond me .

 

Whatever you do, you can't upgrade from 8.0 to 10. You need to be on an activated 8.1. If you do that upgrade as Microsoft wants you to do, the 8.1 activation will transfer automatically to that 10 installation. Consider that if you are thinking of upgrading to 10 and then six months later wiping it and going back to 10 by installing 8, upgrading to 8.1., and upgrading back to 10. I'd guess you'd need to telephone MS and explain what you are doing and hope there's a way to move that activation back to 8.

Is there something you hope to accomplish by wiping and starting over so frequently that cannot be achieved by doing a reset? See the discussion mid-page here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...overy-options#.

 

I was wondering about that myself , most have questions about the "reset" option really being the same as a clean install.

I think the OP mistakenly believes he must go the 8 route before 8.1 for some reason , he could save a lot of time by forgetting about 8 .

 

If you had or have 8.1 installed all you had to do was upgrade to 10, then you could clean install 10.

No need to reinstall 8 then upgrade to 8.1 etc. all over again.

 

I think the OP has done it that way for so long and it seems to have worked for him that he has a hard time changing . Human habits are hard to break i suppose.

It is completely unnecessary though and has no benefit doing it like that.

 

I hear that, he will learn *Smile

I`ve cleaned up my upgrade from 8.1 and it`s running so good, I`m not even considering a clean install yet.

But then, my 8.1 install was fresh, no updates added, no software added.

I just deleted the windows.old folder and it`s all good.

 

Not for free. If you want to install Windows 10 on a completely clean drive, you will have to buy a copy of it. To get the free upgrade, there has to be a genuine copy of either Win 7 SP1 or 8.1 already installed.

 

I upgraded to 10 from an 8.1 install with over 350 GB of games , pictures, videos, music, other programs, etc. and everything has gone perfectly. I have no need to even think about a clean install.

 

You guys lucked out to have everything go so perfectly , if something can go wrong it definitely will with me lol.