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Sorry this didn’t help. Thanks for your feedback. Thank you for your reply and advice. I do find it a bit complicated trying to understand the difference between, backups, creating systems image and media tools and don’t know why Microsoft cannot simplify this process as usually it’s Microsoft that causes the problems in the first place, as in my case it was a straightforward Windows 10 update.

Having followed your advice, it took several attempts using the flash drive, each with different results i. Eventually after more than 12 or so attempts following the correct process I was able to bring up the Windows reinstall screen and from there I was able to get my laptop up and running again. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 10 Search Community member. The power then went off and as such I only now see this screen as per the image.

This is also stuck in a loop, which I left on for over 10 hours with no change. I can only access my computer now by starting up and entering the BIOS. I now need to know which is the best to use and how to proceed to recover my Windows 10 Pro clean installation. That’s the definition of a clean install: deleting absolutely everything, including partitions.

Went the manual route for my laptop running Windows 8. Downloaded the ISO – so I can back that up too for later use if needed – loaded onto a USB stick, and used that to do the in-place upgrade. By the time I made it into Windows 10 settings it was already activated.

Then I turned around and did the the clean install – had already fully backed up and was ready, and I had been planning for a clean install anyway – which interestingly went much quicker than the upgrade. Again, activation was already done by the time I checked on it. Pretty good so far, though the system seems a bit sluggish at times. Might just be initial shakedown happening, or maybe I need to verify the drivers are current.

The mfr has drivers for 7 and 8. ISO will work fine, just make sure you get your license upgraded to a Windows 10 license by first updating through Windows Update, as mentioned in the article.

In my case, my desktop and laptop currently run W7 Pro 64 bit. Does the USB get tied to that specific machine which a clean install is performed on? Thanks J! In total my household has 5 pcs to upgrade, I’m glad I won’t have to buy 5 separate USB drive for each pc. And they have to be the same language if I’m not mistaken. Did it thanks! If you do everything right, you’ll never need to use any key at all. You don’t need to know your windows 10 key.

Might as well buy Windows 10 Home. Clean install; all the way. Once I get it clean install only thru gimagex wonder if the media creation tool is like w8’s where it’ll decrypt the install esd as folder windows payload as I hate being bored with the long drawn out process that the setup app uses.

Hi All, I did a clean install in the same way as its mentioned in the post except taking the key with Magical Jelly Bean, but after the clean install my Windows is not getting activated.

I contacted MS team and got the reply as its due to server slowness issue, but I’m not convinenced becuase its alredy two days my lap in this mode Anyone faced the same issue and got it resolved please post your comments below.

As long as you upgraded to W10 first and it showed as activated. If you tried straight clean install without first doing an upgrade, then the only way I’ve come across for it to work is to rebuild to a clean version of whatever the machine came with don’t waste time on the updates for it either, literally bang on the upgrade from a USB as soon as it’s activated , then upgrade, then clean install at which point it doesn’t need a key as the hwid is registered with MS.

I get the same error code after doing an upgrade of my Windows 10 Developer Preview last night. It was fully updated and activated before I did the upgrade.

I upgraded to my own language and it kept only my personal files. The error code means that the key has been blocked. Same here. Did an upgrade from Win 8. This morning massage pops out that Windows is not activated. It’s must be noted that the requirement to get Windows 10 through Windows Update is only if you want to perform a clean install.

If you use the ISO tool to install it, you just skip the cd-key and upgrade the installed OS, then it activates itself from within Windows So it’s safe and fast to just update it with the ISO tool. Is there any way to recover the Insider activation or something? Exact same issue here. Same with DVDs, is it more than one disc? It does as it has the directories for both.

Download it if you need both, and just check the size before dumping to a USB. Upgrade to win 10 then do a reset Or, you can skip all this, go into the new recovery settings and do a full reset and reinstall Windows 10 automatically Does anyone know if I can upgrade to windows 10 from vista using a clean installation?

You can, but your license won’t be upgraded. You will be running a non-Genuine copy of Windows unless you purchase a Windows 10 license key or sign up for the Windows Insider program. The licence wouldn’t matter in this case anyway – it’s Vista so doesn’t get a free upgrade.

So purchase a new licence key or have MSDN or go the insider path, and do a clean install from there. Doesn’t Windows, since Windows 8, have built in Refresh and Restore options, the latter of which basically formats the hard drive and reinstall Windows automatically? Correct me if I’m wrong. Definitely a fresh install for me. New components may be on the cards too. While this is closer to a clean install I don’t consider it completely clean.

I don’t lik my OS drives to be quick formatted. I have not seen that anybody mentioned it, but for all students that have access to free Microsoft software via Dreamspark, you can download Win10 iso, put it on the USB or DVD and install clean copy on your system, like usually You will get a new serial key, independent of your previous downloads Win 7 or 8. During clean install, we would definitely format the previous partition then why we need to first upgrade previous version to Windows 10?

It means during clean install you don’t need to give installation key and windows will be activated by itself. First sorry for my english-I’m from Poland. I done clean installation exactly like you, but I don’t downloaded Windows 10 twice, I only downloaded once and check prepare pendrive. Why did Edge disappear? Taskbar was unresponsive and I fixed that, but Edge disappeared?

It looks like it just uninstalled. I can find the shortcut but it doesn’t open anything. Please help! So what if I have windows XP.

Can’t I install windows 10 by just purchasing windows 10 and installing it after a format of the hard drive. Does an upgrade write this over? Doesn’t matter in my case, yet wondering. The product key is tied to the motherboard bios right? So if I clean install Windows 10 on a new hard drive will it find the product key? How to download “get windows 10 app”. I upgraded to Windows 10 via Windows update but I performed the reinstallation of windows 10 from the settings app and selecting the restore option, choosing to delete everything.

Is this thing giving the same result of the formatting option said in the article? Or maybe there is still some windows 8. Once i upgraded my network connection didn’t work perfectly I try to install the new versions of the drivers for my mother board but it didn’t work Officially I don have internet connection on Windows That’s easy enough BUT what are you all doing about booting off of a thumb drive on a surface pro? Mine isn’t doing it. For devices with UEFI security you have to set up your usb stick in a different way.

Have a look on Google. Even specific ones for the SP3. Sent from mobile. Im interested to know how to clean install win 10 on surface 3 and pro 3. I called ms and they didnt really provide a solution. I’d like to of course have everything intact so when I do a reset it still works perfectly. Can I use my windows 7 product key, after upgrading and then doing a clean install for win 10? As mentioned by several users above, you don’t need to enter the product key during the clean install after you have performed the upgrade first.

Microsoft may have associated you’re hardware information as licensed. My test procedure: 1. Clean install a Windows 7 with OEM product key on my machine label 2. Upgrade activated Win7 to Win10 using the Windows update method 3. Format already installed Win10 4. Perform a clean install of Windows 10 with USB 5. Do not enter skip any product key during the installation process 6. After the installation is completed, Windows 10 is already activated.

I already did an upgrade of my Windows 8. So if I do a fresh install of Windows 10 in this machine, I need to use my key for Windows 8. Can I also use this new cd key to make a fresh installation of Windows 10?

You do not use your key from 8. After the upgrade, make sure that the upgraded W10 is activated. Once activated, you can then do a clean install of W10, and when asked for a key simply skip entering it.

Once the clean install is completed, it should already be activated. Because the activation server will recognize your hardware and activate it. Changed your hardware? I just did a factory reset and windows 10 upgrade was automatic. Works perfectly I dnt get update but tray r showing. My windows 10 desktop update is stuck on “preparing for installation.. It has been stuck there for over half an hour.

Can anyone help me? What could be the issue? I think during installation you can choose to download updates for the installer or not. Try ‘don’ t download updates’? What helped me was disabling the network adapter or turning off and on your wireless connection it should resolve the issue. This article is hugely confusing. So, you have to upgrade to windows 10 first via windows update, then download the ISO and select ‘ upgrade this pc’. That’s not what the article says. Step 1: you need a win8 or win7 installation with a valid key Step2: you update through windows update to win Step 3: win 10 will then activate and your win10 activation will be linked to your hardware you can forget about your win7 or win8 key Step 4 optional : if you want to do a clean installation, you have to create a bootable usb stick or dvd so that you can start the installation during boot-time.

There you choose the ‘Custom’ installation, not the upgrade. Step 5: during installation, you will be asked for an activation key. You skip this. Step 6: after the installation, win10 will automatically activate because it knows you have a valid activation key for this hardware setup it got that from your upgrade before. So if you never did an upgrade, you don’t have a win10 activation and you can only do a clean install of win10 if you’d buy a win10 activation key.

Now, how do you fix that? If you’re unable to complete this step, look at “edit 5” down below 2. Now, run the command prompt as an administrator. Type in “wuauclt. EDIT: For those who still have issues, several users reported that setting their time forward to the First of August for example and then doing the above steps again helped them resolve the issue.

Just be cautious that you want to do an upgrade, not a clean install! If you do a clean install, Windows 10 will not activate. You would need a new product key for that. Once you’ve completed the upgrade and checked that Windows is activated, you can do a clean reinstall if necessary. Now, ain’t that an accomplishment? EDIT 5: If you’re unable to delete the contents of the folder due to them being in use, try the following: 1. Run the command prompt as an administrator.

Type in “net stop wuauserv”. You should see a message indicating that the Windows Update service has been stopped. Now, go back to the folder and now you should be able to delete all its contents. Go back to the command prompt and this time, type in “net start wuauserv”. This time, the message will tell you the Windows Update service has been started. Go back to step 2 in the original post.

So, I in order to upgrade I have to install Windows 7 I got with my notebook, then upgrade to Windows 10, and then do a clean Windows 10 install again? This is absurd. I know, right. I had to download Windows Just wow. That’s like all day work. I will probably wait until somebody figures this out. How To install it on a mac? I dont have a product key Help anybody????

I downloaded a build iso image about 3. I need to know if this upgrade method will yield a full version of windows Yes, you can use that for the upgrade.

It will install sole updates after that but in the end you’ll have a fully up-to-date win10 setup. A clean install would still be safer but one of my pc’s was set up like this and no issues with stability and performance so far.

I have a Toshiba Encore 8 inch tablet that came with Microsoft Office. Can you let me know how i can get Office backed up so I can install that after the clean install?

I don’t know if there are others in the same boat but it will be very helpful. I wanted to do a clean install but once I upgraded, there was really no need for it. Works great. Though on a x resolution there are glitches with text and app sizes, but not terribly bad But which version should I choose if I have 32 bit os with x64 processor.

A pc with x64 processor can run both x86 or x64 windows. However best choice would be the x64 version. Always check if there are x64 drivers for your hardware printer, scanner, soundcard, graphics card How we get windows 10 key. If you already have a win7 or win8 installation you don’t need a win10 key.

If not, you can buy win10 and that will give you a win10 key. How do I get a windows 10 product key? Yes but I have windows But not activated How do I get a windows 10 product key?? Thanks for the reaction btw ;. Did a clean install. And for the first time EVER, I had a problem with bloody Windows not recognizing the property of the files in my external drives. Problem solved with a couple of lines on CommandPrompt and Ultimate Windows Tweaker 3 but still annoying. I have upgraded two machines PC and notebook for Windows 10 and both use the same product key.

I’m in the same situation. The thing is that you don’t need your W10 key for you pc anymore. Once your machine is activated on windows 10, is in the mcrosfot database and your windows will be activated automatclly after installation.

Just click “skip” button next time when asks you for product key when installing OS. Thanks tomaszporys! I want to upgrade to windows 10 from vista and I will download windows 10 from Microsoft insider. I wonder if I still need a product key to activate windows 10 and how do I get a product key?

You need to buy a product key since you want to perform a license upgrade. Just check on their website and you should easily find the product page where you can purchase one.

However, since your computer is from Windows Vista, I recommend you to check the minimum requirements for Windows 10 since it I suppose that you are using a really old computer. Hi, please help me. I had a Windows 8. Is that right?

Or will I be in trouble in the future? I have already activated Windows! Thank you! In theory shouldn’t work. But if it works, enjoy:.

Hm, but I am scared. Should I clean install Home version? If after hours, the computer is still stuck at the same progress, go to the next method. External devices can make it easier for you to use your computer, but in some cases they can also cause some compatibility issues and cause problems with getting stuck when you are preparing to install an file.

Therefore, you can try disconnecting all external devices to resolve these issues. From the results of some users’ feedback, it seems that a faulty display card and memory may also cause the problem of getting stuck while preparing the profile to be installed. In any case, this is a worthwhile approach. In Windows Safe Mode, the computer will start without loading any third-party applications and drivers, which can provide help to the user to check and fix the computer system errors.

Safe mode can be used to troubleshoot when there is a problem of getting stuck while preparing a file to be installed. If you are using bootable media to install Windows 10, adjust that USB drive priority in the BIOS to fix the problem of getting stuck while preparing the profile to be installed.

When you encounter the problem of getting stuck while preparing the files you want to install, it may be due to problems with the files themselves on your Windows system, at which point you can choose to delete those problematic files to resolve the above problem. In some cases, the ISO file itself that you downloaded may be faulty and further cause the problem of getting stuck while preparing the file to be installed.

Rufus is a free and open source portable application for Microsoft Windows that many users are accustomed to using to create bootable USB drives. However, from the results of some users’ feedback, the bootable media created by this application may have problems and cause the issue of getting stuck while preparing the file to be installed.

Therefore, it is recommended that you use Microsoft’s official Media Creation Tool to create bootable media. In addition to the 8 methods mentioned above, you can also use the professional third-party backup and restore software AOMEI Backupper Professional to solve the problem of getting stuck while preparing an file to be installed, and depending on the situation.

Please download and install the free trial version of AOMEI Backupper Professional , then create a system backup and restore the system backup to the computer in question. In addition, differential backup can also effectively reduce the time of each system backup, we recommend you to enable this function. Next, the detailed procedure of system backup will be described as follows. Step 1. Step 2. Select a destination path in the System Backup window to save the system backup, and then tap the Start Backup button.

If you have multiple backup tasks, you can change the Task Name by tapping the pencil icon in the upper left corner before starting the backup. After creating a system backup image, you can use it to restore your system. The detailed steps for an off-board restore are as follows. Use a bootable disk to boot a computer with a problematic system and change the boot priority in the BIOS. Please connect a device that has a system backup file so that it can be selected during a restore.

After AOMEI Backupper Professional executes automatically, switch to the Restore tab in the left panel, tap to select the image file, and then select the system backup file with the. Step 3. In the Image Information window, select the Restore the system backup option and select the system image you need to restore based on the time, then click Next.

 
 

 

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Post Reply. You actually don’t need the product key. The bootable media is the alternative if you want the best possible clean installation method. Browse Community. Losing all my programs and updates. As Zapella said, your hardware info is what matters. VON 2 Bronze.

 
 

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If the screen only stays that way, this indicates that Windows 10 is trying to complete the upgrade or waiting for some files to load up so that you can use your account. Some users prepwring reported that when they tried logging into their accounts, they also get the same message on their screens.

A lot of users have tried logging back into their account once more but to no avail as the same screen still greets them. Wihdows only goes to show that your account might somehow be corrupted. The first thing you can do to resolve the issue is to try frfe your computer into Привожу ссылку Mode and then log in using an Admin account.

If it seems like your admin windows 10 clean install stuck at preparing free download has caused the problem, you need to create an admin account first and then log in after you reboot into celan account and preparinng log off.

If not, refer to the next given option below. In this second option, you clewn try to repair the stkck profile using the Registry but before you proceed, make sure to create a System Restore Point and then follow the steps below.

System File Checker or SFC is a built-in command utility that helps in restoring corrupted files as well as missing files. To run the SFC command, sfuck the steps given below. The command will start a system scan which will take a few whiles before it finishes. You can also run the Chkdsk stck to resolve the problem. The Chkdsk utility repairs hard drive errors that might be causing the problem.

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For a complete set of instructions in downloading and using it, refer to the steps below. Perform a full system scan using Restoro. To do so, follow the instructions below. How to start Windows 10 in safe mode Booting Windows 10 in safe mode can solve many issues with This usually results downlkad various Error code 0xb will present Error code lnstall occurs when How to Fix msrtn Download Downloax.

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