All that being said, most of the time the "paid for" solutions to the issues we are discussing are a waste of $$$$.

If Sapien 1 wants to have an official, read-only, Microsoft original flash drive of Windows 10, and the associated carboard box it came in as a "collector's item" them more power to him or her. I...

If I was going to place a bet, I would bet that Bree's answer is correct.

So does booting from the standard Windows USB flash drive, opening a command prompt and running the diskpart clean command - and with just a single flash drive that will do both, erase the drive back...

And what is really crazy about it is that it is Micosoft themselves that offer the product for free! You can get it directly from Microsoft for free, or you can pay a shady retailer anywhere from $20...

And what is stopping you from doing that?

On Dell's website is a JCV file which you should be able to use with the BIOS recover feature in BIOS settings to upgrade/recover the BIOS without using an operating system....

Why don't you go to the Dell support website and look for BIOS update instructions there?

And the Media Creation Tool creates the exact same USB flash drive that is in the retail box. The only difference is the MCT creates the latest released version of Windows 10 and the flash drive in...

And hundreds of thousands of users have done that for the cost of a $5 flash drive, but you won't listen to us.

#1 - your laptop already has a digital license for Windows 10 stored on Microsoft...

hsehestedt,

At least there won't be any major problems associated with the full retail boxed product. It will just be out of date, but Windows Update should take care of that. It's just a waste...

Yep, we know! Overpaying for an outdated version of Windows 10. Anyway, good luck in finding one that isn't ridiculously expensive.

What jimbo45 was referring to was getting a cheap Windows 7 and upgrading it to Windows 10 to get the Windows 10 digital license. But it sounds like you have zero interest in less expensive...

I will correct you, not that you will listen to what any of us are telling you anyway....what you got appears to be a genuine Microsoft System Builders version of Windows 10. But, I agree, it is not...

Yes.

It will upgrade only that Windows 10 to Windows 11 and it will leave the other Windows 10 as is. It will likely change your dual booting to make Windows 11 the default and change the timeout back to...

Install TrueNAS

TrueNAS is an Operating System that you install on any computer, just like any other OS. My NAS computer boots TrueNAS from a USB flash drive. (and it also allows mirroring of...

RTM versions do not expire. Since 1809 was a RTM release, it will not expire.

Windows Defender and common sense. The common sense is the hard one to find nowadays.

I am using TrueNAS Core (free) on an older AMD FX computer. I have 6 TB of storage. I am running 2 pairs of 2 HDDs (4 total). Each pair is mirrored, and the 2 pairs are striped. I would have to...

I normally read the user or service manual for the computer or motherboard. That method has not failed me yet.

Here is mine:

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Here's the problem with that and an SSD. Once all those zeroes and ones are written to all the cells on the SSD, the cells must be reset anyway so that they can accept new data. As many members...

Let me try to explain things to you, Sapien 1.

To restore your main laptop:
1. Create the Windows 10 installation USB flash drive by downloading it directly from Microsoft using any computer...

You already have a digital license for Windows on your main laptop. You can do a clean install on it for free. But it's your money to waste, not mine.