Win 10 Fresh Install

I need to reinstall my Dell laptop but after a repair from Dell it came back with no back up/restore points on it

It came with Windows 8.1 and Ive upgraded to 10, can I just put a fresh install of 10 on it ? Will the product allow this ?Or have I got to install 8.1 and then upgrade to 10 again ?

Thanks for any help

Unless you have a win10 licence then no you would need to install 8.1 first then do the update.

Thats what I thought
Pain in the *@!$ Lol

Don't think this is the case any longer. A few revisions ago, you could install 10 directly.

That's true but thought you needed the license file that is generated from 8.1 when doing an upgrade to 10.

Has it changed that you can manually enter oem license info from 8.1 directly into fresh install of 10.

You can use the old key on the win 10 installer

Isnt the licence key in the bios or something now ?

If it is not on the casing, it is in the bios.

I recently installed windows 10 on a laptop which originally had windows 8. There was no need to update.

hey, i just did a full format on this pc which i upgraded from windows 7 to 10 the first time, it activated itself when i did the fresh install did'nt have to do a thing.

Focus

I did read somewhere that if you have already done the upgrade then it's fine for subsequent fresh installs because M$ already have license details for that computer ID.

If, however, certain number of hardware was replaced (or main hardware) then this would no longer apply because computer ID would obviously change.

I got W10 on a USB now
Next problem is changing it to boot from usb lol

Done install through media creation tool
Hope this clears the problems

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I think Ive messed up a tiny bit lol
all done but when I put in mI did go into bios and change a setting but Ive changed it back now and still the same y SD card it dont have any of my files on it its turned it into a boot thing ?

sd card name has changed to PXE ?

You can install windows 10 but you have to use the log n detail that you had with windows 8.1, your Microsoft account details use them and all will be good.

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All done I hate doing this :Angryfire
only thing now is the SD card not showing my files ? Showing these instead

Not seen nothing like that before

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They look like the part of Windows installation files.

If you remove SD card and reboot, Windows should still boot.

However, what normally happens is that Windows would format whatever medium you decided to setup the Windows installation files on so it can make it bootable.

Just notices the c drive seemed like it was using more space than it should with a clean install and noticed there was a file called windows.old
over 200gb from previous install :Yikes: LOL
After a search its seems it saves it in case you want to go back and can be up to 20GB so god knows why mine is over 200gb

now you watch everything go t*ts up for me

if I remember correctly @Rat after 30 days you get the option to remove it if you wish, windows old is your windows 8.1 which was on laptop before upgrade.

Thats right @Napster I read that too
it's gone now and looks a lot healthier