Looking for a new laptop - PC World trade in?

davey4444

Thanks all, I've taken a punt on the SSD and we'll see how that goes.

EveryWhere

davey4444 wrote: »

Thanks all, I've taken a punt on the SSD and we'll see how that goes.

Do you have a USB flash drive of at least 8GB in capacity? We should create the installation media and use the gatherosstate method to generate a GenuineTicket.xml file. We might need that later.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/23354-clean-install-windows-10-directly-without-having-upgrade-first.html

Will guide you through it if you don't understand.

Vegastare

Just to say my laptop is not 3 years old till next April - just for light use no gaming no store photos down loads etc ...have 3 year service with Know How..thank goodness...new hard drive last year, new network card it goes on...I ask for price re trade in....fantastic deal £25.

EveryWhere

Vegastare wrote: »

Just to say my laptop is not 3 years old till next April - just for light use no gaming no store photos down loads etc ...have 3 year service with Know How..thank goodness...new hard drive last year, new network card it goes on...I ask for price re trade in....fantastic deal £25.

Terrible...

davey4444

EveryWhere wrote: »

Do you have a USB flash drive of at least 8GB in capacity? We should create the installation media and use the gatherosstate method to generate a GenuineTicket.xml file. We might need that later.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/23354-clean-install-windows-10-directly-without-having-upgrade-first.html

Will guide you through it if you don't understand.

Thank you. I ran the microsoft media creation tool last night and I'll look through that tutorial as it looks quite comprehensive.

Frozen_up_north

Vegastare wrote: »

Just to say my laptop is not 3 years old till next April - just for light use no gaming no store photos down loads etc ...have 3 year service with Know How..thank goodness...new hard drive last year, new network card it goes on...I ask for price re trade in....fantastic deal £25.

What brand of laptop is that? Just so we can avoid it :rotfl: