If you took advantage of the free Windows 10 offer, then you can enter the Windows 7 or Windows 8 product key that you upgraded to Windows 10 from. You will need to activate later after installation has finished. You will not be asked to enter a product key if installing Windows 10 Enterprise. If you want to activate with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account, then click/tap on the I don't have a product key link, and be sure to set up your Microsoft account at step 20 below. If you do not have a product key available right now, then you can click/tap on the I don't have a product key link to be able to manually activate Windows 10 later when you do have a product key. step 4: To Custom Install Windows 10 with an ISO fileĥ Enter the product key for the Windows 10 edition (ex: Home or Pro) you want installed and activated, and click/tap on Next.step 3: To Custom Install Windows 10 with bootable USB.This is to avoid Windows Setup from installing files or partitions on other hard drives by mistake.Ģ Do the step below depending on how you want to do a custom install of Windows 10. You will need to be connected to the Internet while performing a custom install.ġ Temporarily disconnect all non OS hard drives until Windows installation has finished. This tutorial will show you step by step on how to do a custom install of Windows 10 with UEFI or Legacy BIOS on your PC. Once the custom install has finished, you will be able to copy any files you want back from the C:\Windows.old folder.Ī custom install of Windows 10 can be useful if you are unable to start Windows for whatever reason, need to reinstall Windows, but do not want to lose any files in your current installation by doing a full clean install. When you perform a custom install of Windows 10, a clean install of Windows 10 is performed only on the same partition as the previous installation of Windows to replace it, and the previous installation is moved into the C:\Windows.old folder as a backup.
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