

The only thing you'll lose is the recovery partition but if you really want that just manually partition about 20Gigs at the start and use macrium reflect, it's free and even gives you a boot option for recovery which has always worked flawlessly for me. If you want a flawless install it's advisable to wipe a drive first but I'm not sure that's needed on a solid state drive. The only issues I've ever come up against with older hardware are sata drivers but I'm about to reinstll W10Pro on my new Spectre and if this is still a problem I'll be disappointed, M.2 or not this is an ANCIENT issue and should have been resolved. Just install them after windows is done installing. It'll still pull needed files from MS Update before the install but it cuts down on your bandwidth usage if you're metered.Īlso why would you have to save the drivers from the device? - the most update ones are freely available on HP's website under the support section. I bought legit keys from ebay for 8.1pro so I had to clean install that first then use a downloaded version of windows 10 to update. Alternatively if you've moved hardware you can do a telephone install by running a cmd in admin mode and typing: I've reinstalled windows 10 after the free update multiple times, as long as you activated it before the cutoff it's still valid.

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