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That's why people like you contribute here, isn't it?
Anyway, thank you for your comment. Point is, if something goes badly wrong... how would he recover?
Tears, recriminations, despair... seen that.
The point has to be made.
Take precautions - be aware.
A slightly different take on it, I was given a Win8.1 Notebook a three weeks ago, has a Celeron CPU with 8GB RAM, works fine but I may pass it on to someone so I Upgraded it to Win10. I always keep on hand and in my toolkit the bootable USB 8GB Thumb drive made using the MCT/Microsoft Media Creation Tool to create it. With Windows running I run the setup.exe file on the Thumb drive to Upgrade to a fairly recent version. My latest is from December so there's not a lot of updates to do after the install and no files/data was lost. Also, since Win8.1 was activated it remained so with Win10.