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<blockquote data-quote="plat" data-source="post: 841682" data-attributes="member: 74969"><p>I would do a <a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/how-do-clean-installation-windows-10" target="_blank">clean installation.</a> You're too far behind. You should have a digital entitlement stored in the mainboard BIOS if the notebook came pre-installed with Windows 10. Windows "should" activate automatically. A clean-install is going to wipe the drive but you can access Windows.old folder afterward if you didn't back up your personal stuff. After installation, I would TRIM or defragment the drive as well as run disk cleanup as administrator. Forget the Aomei image, it's too much risk and wear-and-tear to update/upgrade to current W10 from a two year old image. Also, I would double-check on the OEM site for drivers, compatibility, etc. to be safe.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="plat, post: 841682, member: 74969"] I would do a [URL='https://www.windowscentral.com/how-do-clean-installation-windows-10']clean installation.[/URL] You're too far behind. You should have a digital entitlement stored in the mainboard BIOS if the notebook came pre-installed with Windows 10. Windows "should" activate automatically. A clean-install is going to wipe the drive but you can access Windows.old folder afterward if you didn't back up your personal stuff. After installation, I would TRIM or defragment the drive as well as run disk cleanup as administrator. Forget the Aomei image, it's too much risk and wear-and-tear to update/upgrade to current W10 from a two year old image. Also, I would double-check on the OEM site for drivers, compatibility, etc. to be safe. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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