Clean install Windows 10 quickly without upgrading first.

[Porthos]

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Clean install Windows 10 quickly without upgrading first. - Clean install Windows 10 quickly.

This guide is for techs who don't have in house PXE servers ect.​

Resources Needed​

Flash drives/External Drives
(Having USB 3 everything is nice and speeds up the process)
Windows 7 and 8 and of course Windows 10 ISO's
Bench or spare PC, The time it takes to complete depends on PC specs.
Your favorite imaging program, I use Macrium.
Snappy Driver Packs or other driver source.
Links at bottom of...​

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[seedubya]

Thanks!

 

[gdeswart]

It's a couple of steps beyond simply upgrading, but will be worth every minute when it's needed (and it will be sooner or later).
Thanks.

 

[acscva]

Microsoft just announced that they are going to be fixing the activation process and allowing you to use previous windows keys to install fresh shortly.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/next-b...will-ease-activation-hassles/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

 

[Grant]

Thanks

 

[kierang]

Thanks, very useful

 

[Aldo Nedzelsky]

Thank you this helps alot

 

[perryc99]

Thanks for the info..

 

[kwisher]

This process has worked perfect on 2 HP laptops this past week.

Thank you

 

[pcpete]

Without the normal upgrade process, which I am guessing saves a hash of some sort to allow activation once windows 10 is installed, in the situation say two years in the future when you need to reinstall clean will it automatically activate with Windows 10?

 

[acscva]

Yes once your computer has been activated with Windows 10 with Microsoft you can do a fresh install at any time and will automatically reactivate.

 

[pcpete]

Yes once your computer has been activated with Windows 10 with Microsoft you can do a fresh install at any time and will automatically reactivate.

Sure, but this seems to side step the normal process, so I was unsure that was the case.

 

[PBComputer]

Am I right in thinking we can now do clean installs without doing the upgrade first. Since we can now activate w10 with a w7+ key

 

[cypress]

Am I right in thinking we can now do clean installs without doing the upgrade first. Since we can now activate w10 with a w7+ key

Yup, you are correct.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Only if you snagged the ISO before Microsoft yanked it late Friday.....

 

[PBComputer]

Only if you snagged the ISO before Microsoft yanked it late Friday.....

Very true. Luckily I did

 

[kwisher]

Can anyone share this mysterious ISO, please?

 

[Porthos]

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-403B-B04E-C96ED6047488/MediaCreationTool.exe

 

[nlinecomputers]

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-403B-B04E-C96ED6047488/MediaCreationTool.exe

Has Microsoft restored the 1511 ISO?

 

[Porthos]

No that link gives the same MCT for 10586 that I gave to you.