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Windows 10 (sorry) - clean install?

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    Hi

    Lot of good advice and info.

    Step 1 Have the W8.x recovery disks made and ready.
    Step 2 Have your sensitive data backed up.
    Step 3 Ignore steps 1 & 2.

    A clean install is nice, but it may not detect all your drivers correctly, so perhaps do the upgrade and overwrite your W8 first, with the knowledge that a clean install is easily achieved.
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  • johndough wrote: »
    Hi

    Lot of good advice and info.

    Step 1 Have the W8.x recovery disks made and ready.
    Step 2 Have your sensitive data backed up.
    Step 3 Ignore steps 1 & 2.

    A clean install is nice, but it may not detect all your drivers correctly, so perhaps do the upgrade and overwrite your W8 first, with the knowledge that a clean install is easily achieved.

    I wiped my PC and did a clean install when I replaced the system HDD with an SSD. Win 8 detected all the correct drivers, so I'd assume (ha-ha) that Win 10 would do the same...
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