In this video I'm gonna show you how to do a fresh install of Windows 10
One day, a sense of wonder. Well you'll have your work cut out for you.
Yes, no matter what the disaster it might have been that caused you to have to reinstall,
sometimes you have to do it. In this case we're using a CD to boot from.
Assuming that the built-in restore doesn't work. You would go through the options
here basically just choosing your language, in my case English in Canada
and on the next screen we want to go to install rather than repair. Repair will
attempt to repair the current installation, but we're doing a new one.
If you have your product key, enter it here, otherwise you can hit skip;
especially if the Windows 10 was already existing. It will remember it when you go
online next. So you can go ahead and safely hit skip. You have to read and
accept the agreement, and it's up to you if you're gonna not read the fine print;
but you can hit the check box and go next. We're not doing an upgrade in this case.
It's a custom install because it's new; and we're not gonna be changing the
partitions on here. It's a new Drive that's empty so we'll just go ahead and hit next.
Now this actually takes a long time.
It took 20 minutes but I cut it out.
Noooo!!!!
Yeah so, lucky for you I edited that part of the video.
So we just have this short little countdown as it gets ready to reboot and continue.
Don't press the key as it prompts you to boot from the CD
otherwise it's going to start over again. Just let it run through, it will prompt
you this multiple times throughout the installation as it reboots each time.
There it is again, just let it do its thing.
and again it prompts you for the product key. Enter it if you have it otherwise
say don't do it now. You can customize the settings if you want but in this
case we're gonna use the Express settings. It's faster but if you want the
privacy you can go in and read about customizing your settings and
make it a lot more private.
This also has been sped up, this part of the video, because this entire process
took 45 minutes to do the install on this particular virtual machine.
Now here you want to say that you own the computer in most cases, otherwise you
would know if it's from work, if it's a company or a school they
would be doing this for you.
Now here if you have a Microsoft account, you can log in with your email address
and then go next. In this case we're going to skip this step, and then we'll
be able to create our own local user account name. And if you would like to
put a password in, you can put one in as well, which is strongly recommended.
For the purpose of this tutorial just hit next.
and that's it! We're logging into Windows for the first time.
It runs through quite a bit of this as well,
and this actually for me took a whole 20 minutes.
Say WHAT!!!!
But not to worry I cut that out as well. And now we're in Windows, and it comes up
first saying that you're connected to a network, if you trust this and you want
to share files you can say yes. If it's in your own home or business, otherwise
you can hit no. There you go! Fresh install the windows.
Thanks for watching