You pull the Windows 7 hard drive out, you buy a new hard drive or solid state drive. You install that and you install 10 on that. That`s how you do it.
You do that when you can afford it. Or you upgrade to Windows 10 when it comes out through windows update, but I don`t even recommend that.
Just get another hard drive for the desktop and put windows 10 there, don`t risk the laptop.
Or upgrade 8 on the desktop.
Oh! Well, I thought doing a clean install meant removing the Windows 7 software, and then use a Windows 7 ISO to install back on the system.
If you ever consider to put W10 on your W7 system, make sure you first make an image of the W7 system. Here is how:
Imaging with free Macrium - Windows 7 Help Forums
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My interpretation of a clean install has always been: format the disk(s), fresh OS, clean Reserve, fresh Registry, etc...
In the screenshot, I have circled the reason why I feel the need to do a Clean Install. But, if it's not a good idea then I will not do it. But, how do I get my usage back down to normal?
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