Hey all.
I have some recent posts in this thread about doing a clean install of Windows 10 from scratch (from a USB); some good, sound info I received from you all.
But one more little thingy.....
I'm not sure with which Windows OS this started with, but at some point when you installed a Windows OS onto a drive that had a previous Windows OS already on it, it would create that "Windows.old" folder...but then you could always delete that later. Well, I found out from posting here that I can avoid that during the initial steps of the install by deleting any partitions and then formatting.
But, let me check this, because this (embarrassingly) happened to me in the past:
When performing the Win 10 install from scratch, after it's done, does it do a reboot whether you're present in front of the screen or not? Here's the reason I ask:
In the past when I installed a Windows OS (I think maybe it was Win 7 or 8), it rebooted during the final steps of the install process, but upon the system rebooting, it was booting to my USB drive because I had switched it to that in my BIOS........but then the install procedure started all over again. I didn't catch that at first and thought I was just seeing more of the install process.
Since I didn't "catch" that, it's like it installed the OS
again, and then that Windows.old folder got created again.
Does anyone know if the Windows 10 install from scratch reboots after finalizing the install? If so, I want to
catch it this time and change my boot priority back to my SSD first from the USB.
Thanks for any info,
Pez