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danvilla2

danvilla2

I’m not an expert
Need a bit help my online buddies.

Have an old laptop, and I want to put a new hard drive in it, then reinstall windows (without any of my personal files copied across) before I send it off on its next adventure. Originally it came with windows 7, Microsoft forced me to update to Windows 10 and I have the product keys for both.

The internet searches are giving me several ways to reinstall Windows on the new hard disk but it’s not working for me.

I’ve downloaded the windows 10 media creation tool to an external hard drive, to try and load windows that way but it’s not locating the file on the USB on the boot menu.

Does anyone have a clever way of doing what I need to do outside of windows creation tool? I don’t want to copy across anyone personal files to the new hard drive.
 
If you used a hard drive, rather than a USB Memory stick, it may not recognise it in the BIOS. Hard drives are reported differently.

Just try the Media Creation tool with a USB stick, rather than a hard drive.

Let us know how you get on.
 
My friend left Malaysia and being the environmentally conscious person that she is, left me with two broken computers. She didn't want to throw them out so she left them here.

What's the ethical thing to do with them?

I hear throwing them off the roof is frowned upon these days.
 
BodyButter said:
My friend left Malaysia and being the environmentally conscious person that she is, left me with two broken computers. She didn't want to throw them out so she left them here.

What's the ethical thing to do with them?

I hear throwing them off the roof is frowned upon these days.
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What I’m planning on doing is donating it to a local charity to give to under privileged kids studying at home.





Just don’t want them finding all my porn.
 
Which reminds me I need to reformat my hardrive. Been meaning to do it for weeks. Time time time 🕧🕐🕜
 
kefkat said:
Which reminds me I need to reformat my hardrive. Been meaning to do it for weeks. Time time time 🕧🕐🕜
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I did it not long ago with the Windows media creation tool method with an external hard drive, just be careful if you back up any documents on it as the media creation tool over wrote anything else on it. Luckily I double checked before I went much further or that would’ve been a catastrophe!

And make sure you have the product codes obviously, I used productkeyfinder I think it was called.
 
Just putting another one out there on the off chance - does anyone happen to have the Office 2010 setup file sat in their hard drive?

Microsoft have taken it away from their website as they don’t support it anymore, impossible to download (from a safe place).
 
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