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W10 Clean Install - Detailed Steps
Hello All,
At long long last I have the time to switch my desktop from W7 to W10. Am posting a list of what I think are the detailed actions I will have to take for a clean W10 install.
Would be great if everyone can have a quick look at my list and post if I have missed something out. Thanks.
Current set up : W7 Pro plenty of RAM, and Pentium I7. 3 SSds – one with just OS the other 2 for storage – all formatted in NTFS
Actions:
Download latest W10 via MCT to flash drive.
Back up everything to external drive
Change BIOS boot order to Flash drive
Disconnect all 3 SSds
Reformat OS SSd to GPT [Previously W10 wouldn’t install to my Laptop until I reformatted to GPT] - AOMI partition manager did the trick for me before for a W10 install on another laptop]
Reconnect OS SSd
Install W10 from flash drive
Reconnect 2 storage SSds.
One final question. The 2 storage SSds are NTFS. Will I have to reformat them to GPT or will they be all OK to work alongside the OS SSd which will be GPT ?
Thanks.