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Fresh Win10 install onto a wiped wiped hard drive
My friend has an AIO desktop computer that came with Win 8 and updated to 8.1 and finally Windows 10.
She had many problems with Windows 10 and her daughter wiped the hard drive clean and the computer has been sitting there doing nothing since Dec 2016
I suspect she can do a Win10 fresh install onto the computer on that same hard drive even if she doesn’t know the product ID#.
She has a Windows 8.1 laptop: she does not know if she has 32-bit or 64-bit.
Can she use her laptop and use:
Option One: To Download Windows 10 Home or Pro ISO using Media Creation Tool
How to Download a Windows 10 ISO File
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...-download.html
--- Then take the ISO that has been burned to DVD and bring the DVD to the AIO and proceed from there to do a fresh install?
--- On the DVD, does it matter whether it’s a DVD-R or DVD-RW?
i know she and her daughter want to try it themselves but I don’t expect them to be successful from the way they’ve done things and I’d like to be ready when I get a chance to do what needs to be done.
I saw that this process uses sources\install.esd which is a compressed version of install.wim, but cannot be used as a source image for DISM. I’ve never used DISM – what is the drawback to not being able to be used as a source image?
Is there a different Win10 install procedure I should consider?
In the end, I know I can help them use Windows 10 as I like it and I have 2 Windows 10 computers and both of them run excellently.