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Maybe I'm just thinking old school here, but I don't see a way to download an ISO / USB image and get a product key. If we want to do a fresh install, anyone ha

Maybe I'm just thinking old school here, but I don't see a way to download an ISO / USB image and get a product key. If we want to do a fresh install, anyone have any ideas how that's going to work?

rdudek 11y ago
I was going to ask the same thing. I am not 100% but I think I did see an option to do a format type of deal when I got the 8.1 upgrade. In any event, even though my Windows 8 setup from 2 years ago is running excellent on my Intel SSD drive, I thing Windows 10 will be a big enough upgrade to warrant a fresh install. I already have most of my stuff backed up so it will be just a matter of reinstalling my applications.
- Encosia 11y ago
  FWIW, the upgrade process works very well. If your current setup doesn't have any issues, I wouldn't bother with a full repave. I've upgraded a half dozen machines from 8.x to 10 throughout the past several months and all of them have gone smoothly. The only real issue I've had is that I needed to reinstall the driver for my ScanSnap scanner after one of the upgrades.
wvenable 11y ago
Microsoft has an ISO download site for Windows 7/8 so I assume they'll add 10 when it's released. Also I read somewhere that the Windows upgrade store application has an ISO download option as well.
Encosia 11y ago
There have been ISOs of the slow ring preview builds. I'd expect they will be available as usual.
sp332 11y ago
This page is the official one for downloading images. However it seems to be down at the moment. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery
xorl 11y ago
They'll provide USB images, the installer has a way to make bootable media already.
sp332 11y ago
Can't edit my previous comment, but this tool from Microsoft will help you download the right images. https://wudt.codeplex.com/ https://wudt.codeplex.com/

Maybe I'm just thinking old school here, but I don't see a way to download an ISO / USB image and get a product key. If we want to do a fresh install, anyone have any ideas how that's going to work?

rdudek 11y ago

I was going to ask the same thing. I am not 100% but I think I did see an option to do a format type of deal when I got the 8.1 upgrade. In any event, even though my Windows 8 setup from 2 years ago is running excellent on my Intel SSD drive, I thing Windows 10 will be a big enough upgrade to warrant a fresh install. I already have most of my stuff backed up so it will be just a matter of reinstalling my applications.

Encosia 11y ago
FWIW, the upgrade process works very well. If your current setup doesn't have any issues, I wouldn't bother with a full repave. I've upgraded a half dozen machines from 8.x to 10 throughout the past several months and all of them have gone smoothly. The only real issue I've had is that I needed to reinstall the driver for my ScanSnap scanner after one of the upgrades.

wvenable 11y ago

Microsoft has an ISO download site for Windows 7/8 so I assume they'll add 10 when it's released. Also I read somewhere that the Windows upgrade store application has an ISO download option as well.

Encosia 11y ago

There have been ISOs of the slow ring preview builds. I'd expect they will be available as usual.

sp332 11y ago

This page is the official one for downloading images. However it seems to be down at the moment. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery

xorl 11y ago

They'll provide USB images, the installer has a way to make bootable media already.

sp332 11y ago

Can't edit my previous comment, but this tool from Microsoft will help you download the right images. https://wudt.codeplex.com/ https://wudt.codeplex.com/