This is where I disagree. You shouldn't have to do that. Obviously it's an option, same way you could just wipe everything and clean install it. But the whole point of this post was to point out that...

If I understand things correctly, the bootloader does not get erased when you format the partition it's in, you need to nuke the partition table?

I managed to get the installation working, this is...

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I've been trying to update my Vaio Netbook from Windows 7 to 10, unfortunately with no luck up until now. I will explain in a few steps and hopefully someone...