But once you've done that then the installed W10 keeps a record in the PC of the hardware. with W8.1 then you upgrade from that to W10 which leaves all the bloatware and restore partition etc still in place. But I have upgraded two of my family's W7 PCs to W10 and I think it should not be difficult to do it yourself.Īs I understand it, in order to get an activated W10 you need to upgrade from your existing OS first e.g. I'm waiting for another few months for the bugs to be sorted out. I emphasize I have not yet upgraded my HP stream mini to W10 therefore I may not be correct. BTW they loved the HP Stream in the store, apparently had a cluster of the techs around it when they were building it with Win 10. Overall pretty impressed with Microsoft Store service. Also got a short tutorial on the new features on Windows 10. They provided me with the Windows 10 key too, so I can rebuild the machine in the future with a new SSD if I want. Was a fresh build, they removed the HP recovery partition as I requested, no additional bloatware of any kind installed by Microsoft and left me with 15Gb free (the machine had 350Mb left on it when it went in to the MS Store with Win 8.1 installed - virtually no other program files installed as all of these were on an external HDD)! Win10 must be pretty compact build. Update 8/17/15: Picked up the machine from the Microsoft store yesterday, only took one day for them to rebuild with Windows 10. I have the PC booked into the store on Saturday and pick it up a couple of days later. The HP Windows 8.1 partition will be gone, so there will be some space saved from that, and based on my Winbook TW802 tablet, Win 10 seems smaller than 8.1. This will be a clean build and I'm told the machine will be like one of their signature edition computers when complete. Now I'm just waiting on that cable discussed in this thread to arrive to hook up a 2.5" hdd as my secondary drive.įYI, I just spoke to a Microsoft guy at a stand set up in our local Mall and he said the Microsoft store will upgrade HP Stream Mini's to Windows 10 in the store for free using a USB stick to perform the process. well it's not now! Just tested it with Microsoft's Edge browser and it works perfectly. I think I saw someone say 1080p 60FPS youtube was a no go before in this thread. I am now running Windows 10 and it runs very well. Then I used the Media Creation Tool for Windows 10 and told it to upgrade my existing system. Windows 8.1 installed fine and even sized the partition correctly to maximize my new hdd space. I swapped the SSD with my new 128GB and ran the recovery at bootup. I used the HP Recovery software to create bootable recovery usb drive for the factory windows 8.1 installation. I then tried the Media Creation Tool but that Failed, probably due to lack of disk space as I think it was using the same location. I thought that the install would go fine on the normal 32GB m.2 sata with the windows update trick but the windows update messed up and took up most of my space before failing. Took me all night but my mini now has Windows 10.
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