How To Perform A Clean Install In Wimdows 10 And Keep My Files

Andre,

Fantastic article. Very articulate. However, I'thou having a trouble that is non addressed in your step-by-step guide.

I successfully get to the step right before the OOBE. My PC boots over again only goes dorsum to the DVD which is however inserted. So, I get the prompt to Press any key to reboot from CD or DVD. Doing then gets me dorsum to the setup on the DVD for some other install. Not striking whatever key causes my PC to merely stop.

Is the media supposed to be removed prior to this final reboot?

Dennis

[UPDATE] Success. By a combination of doing a PC Cleanup then removing the DVD just after the terminal setup step, I'm able to boot into the Tech Preview and cease setting up accounts, etc. I'g upward and running now.

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Strange, what is your default boot device in the BIOS, hard disk drive or DVD?

Try making your hard disk be the default boot device in the BIOS and see if allows you to kicking into Windows 10 without going into setup once again.

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I'm non sure what you mean by "default boot device". My boot order is DVD then hard bulldoze. If I make the hard bulldoze first then I cannot kick from the DVD to get the install started.

The hard bulldoze had an old Windows 8.0 organization on it. When I tried to install a bunch of updates, I could no longer boot from the hard bulldoze. That'southward when I decided to just scrap viii.0 and attempt Win 10.

But I'm non sure that's my problem. If I pull the DVD and try to boot off the hard drive I get this fault, in obviously text on a blackness background:

A disk read mistake occurred

Printing Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

When I do that, I get the same thing once again.

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If you lot are in the OOBE for Windows 10, why would you need to be booting from the Windows x install media once more except for installing Windows x again?

What y'all said:

I successfully get to the step right before the OOBE.

This is right before the OOBE:

When this phase of setup is complete, Windows will automatically restart and reboot into setup once more.

Which means, all necessary files would have already been copied from the disc to facilitate the installation.

Do you accept more than i hd installed in your calculator?

Practise you lot have external storage devices fastened to the organisation?

If you do, disconnect them before running setup.

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Andre
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Andre, I'm not in the OOBE. As I said, and you quoted, I'm in the stride before where I run into the "Windows needs to restart .." message. But because my DVD actor is first in line in my BIOS, instead of booting to my hard drive which now has the Tech Preview on it, the PC boots back to the DVD with the install ISO on it.

But, as I said in the update to my commencement post above, I was able to pull the DVD in time and then my PC booted to the hard drive. I now have the Tech Preview running.

Thanks for the article and your help.

Dennis

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Understand but nosotros need a iso or a file that can burn a disk the main operating system. where class we go it?

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Andre:

Thanks for writing this upward. Disappointed to hear that I cannot use the upgrade to do a clean install initially. Hope that changes, but probably won't hold my breath.. ;-)

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Well, I take a question:

I did the free upgrade of my Windows 7 and at present want to reinstall Windows 10 using a clean install. I'm a chip anxious from nature so I outset looked upward whether my installation of Win10 is activated and which product central is used.

And that's the strange role:

When I use the MGADiag.exe tool to bank check genuinity of the installation it shows me a central that ends exactly similar the Windows 10Insider Preview Central. More curious:

Using a 'key extractor vb-script':

                Fix WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId"))  Function ConvertToKey(Key) Const KeyOffset = 52 i = 28 Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789" Do Cur = 0 x = 14 Do Cur = Cur * 256 Cur = Cardinal(x + KeyOffset) + Cur Fundamental(ten + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255 Cur = Cur Modernistic 24 x = x -one Loop While 10 >= 0 i = i -1 KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput If (((29 - i) Modernistic 6) = 0) And (i <> -1) And so i = i -1 KeyOutput = "-" & KeyOutput End If Loop While i >= 0 ConvertToKey = KeyOutput End Function
                I got even another fundamental which is neither my Win7 key nor the Insider Preview key.
                [Update]I now upgraded a 2nd Windows7 license besides and it has the same key when extracted, seems to be generic[/Update]
                What cardinal should I put in when I'g prompted to activate Windows 10 after the clean install?
                I                  DID NOT use a Microsoft Business relationship                  - and I won't be persued to exercise so.

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I have the aforementioned trouble ? Which key to use after installation ? Win 7 , Win viii.ane and now Win x

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Instead of publishing a new article, how virtually answering the questions?

Afaik:

When I upgrade to Win10 my Hardware-Setup is recorded in a MS DB and connected with a free license for Win10.

What, when my hardware changes? Aye there'due south much information about that but just from 3rd-party. Do I need to do the upgrade once more? What if my hardware changes AFTER the one year after the release? Do I all the same get the gratuitous upgrade? If not, can I at to the lowest degree utilize my 'old' Windows which I before used to upgrade to Win10 or is the license not valid anymore (yous say one can only 'get back' 30days lonng).

How's all that with Germany: Here a hardware-alter afaik cannot 'invalidate' the license. So: Practice *we* become Win10 for costless on all devices?

All questions not take been answered past MS Officials.

This, well, is quite sh*t.

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