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Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

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Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

Instructions to install Windows 10 from your hard drive help you install a completely new copyrighted Windows 10 for free. How to install this has the following characteristics:

1. Quick, easy installation without USB or CD

2. There is a free copyright

3. Requirements: you are using Windows 10 copyright (not cracked) but want to reinstall completely new

If you are using Windows 7, 8, 8.1 activated (copyright or crack), then when installing Windows 10 completely new from the hard drive or USB will get Windows 10 without copyright.

The content of this article

1. Check the copyright and version of Windows
2. Download the .ISO File to install Windows 10
3. How to install Windows 10 from the hard drive
    3.1 1. Create a folder to install Windows 10
    3.2 2. Open Command prompt
    3.3 3. Install Windows 10

 

Check the copyright and version of Windows

You check the copyright of Windows 10 by pressing Windows + E key combination to open This PC, then right-click This PC and select Properties

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

The Systerm window is displayed

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

Here you save 3 important information at the locations in the picture, including: Windows 10 Pro is the version of Windows you are using, System type: 64-bit or System type: 32-bit is the Windows you use 32 -bit or 64-bit, Windows is activated is your Windows has been activated.

If you check that your Windows has not been activated, then after installing Windows 10 will not be copyrighted.

 

Download the .ISO File to install Windows 10

If you already have an .ISO file of Windows 10 that corresponds to your computer, you don’t need to do this step. If you don’t have an .ISO file installed with Windows 10, download the Windows 10 version with the same version and bit number with Windows 10: click here to download .ISO file from Microsoft

Once you have the .ISO file, rename the file to the name of the version of Windows 10 you just downloaded (such as 32-bit Windows 10 Pro, this is not mandatory but should be done to facilitate file management and use later) ) and move this file to a drive other than the C drive containing Windows being used so that after installing Windows 10 the .ISO file is not lost (save it for later use).

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

1. Create a folder to install Windows 10

– You must first install the extraction program, such as 7-Zip (free, click to download and install it) or Winrar

– You move the .iso file to install Windows 10 to the outer location of a drive that is different from drive C (remember the outermost location for you guys)

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

Then right-click and choose Extract to Windows 10 … (depending on the name of the .iso file that Extract to … varies)

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

Then you get a folder with the same name as the .iso file name

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

Please rename this folder to BTH

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

Thus, this step is completed, now to ensure the installation process does not occur, please turn off the internet connection by unplugging the network cable if in use (with Wifi and Dcom is not necessary)

2. Open Command prompt

You need to go to Restart on Windows 10 then hold down the Shift button and click Restart

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

The computer will move to the screen as below, here you choose Troubleshot

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Choose Advabced options

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Choose Command Prompt

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Now the computer will reboot and the screen Command Prompt

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

At the Command Prompt, you will see the account (or list of accounts) on your computer, click the account you are using, here your account is BlogTinHoc

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

If the account you choose has a password, enter it; if not, leave the password field blank, then select Continue

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Now the command line cmd will show up

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

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At the cmd window, type the command wmic logicaldisk get size, caption and press ENTER to display the list of drives and their sizes

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

As shown above, the Caption column is the drive letter and the Size column is the volume of the corresponding drive. You only care about the size drives, in this case I have the drives: C, D, E, X.

Now type the following command in the drive letter list: BTH setup and press Enter and continue until after pressing Enter but you do not see the line The system cannot find the path specified. Here I will type the following commands:

C:BTHsetup

D:BTHsetup

E:BTHsetup

Go to the 3rd command E: BTH setup, I don’t see the line The system cannot find the path specified. so I stopped and waited for a while until the Windows 10 setup window appeared

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

3. Proceed to install Windows 10

At the Windows Setup window if you are experienced, you can option as you like, if you are not familiar with it, please choose the parameters like the ones below, then select Next

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Choose Install now

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

This step you just need to select Skip without the key modifier

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Check I accept the license terms and select Next

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Select Custom: install Windows only (advanced)

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

You should now see the drive information panel and the options Delete (Format the drive), Format (delete all files in the drive) and New (to create a new drive). In the information panel of options, you will see the Name column (drive letter), Total size (disk space), Free space (the amount of free space on that drive).

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

First, you need to determine which drive C contains the old operating system you are using:

– Name (drive letter): usually drive C has no name, after the Driver * Partition * part (the * signs are different depending on the computer) there will be no sign: the drive name. As shown in the image below, you will see that the second drive 0 Drive No Partion 2 has a name, so this will be drive C. However there are some cases where there are many drives without a name, we do not identify it by this way is.
– Total size (disk space) and Free space (free space of the drive): usually if you know the total size and Free space of drive C, you can just look at it to determine the drive C now.
– Drive location: usually drive C will be the drive at the top of the drive size (Total size) greater than 10 GB.

After identifying drive C, delete all drives with a size (Total size) less than 1GB (drive units in MB) and drive C go by selecting the drive and then clicking Delete

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

A message appears, select OK

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

After deleting C drive and drives smaller than 1 GB, you will get an empty partition named Driver 0 Unllocated space. Sometimes there will be 2, 3 free partitions like that, choose a partition with the largest capacity and choose New.

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Choose Apply

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Choose OK

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

You will then see several new drives created, with a computer with a Lagecy standard BIOS like your computer will create 2 new drives, with a newer UEFI standard computer will create 3-4 new drives, although However, only 1 drive is larger than 1 GB and other partitions are less than 1 GB. Select the drive with the largest capacity among the newly created drives and select Next

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Now you wait for the installation process to be done, depending on the computer this process will restart 2-3 times and takes about 15-30 minutes

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

After a few moments of waiting, my picture below will display, you click Do this later

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

If the computer has Wifi, then it will take 1 more step, select Skip this step

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Choose Use Express settings

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Go to the step of filling out the Windows 10 account information, in the first box you specify the name of the account you want, if you do not want to set a password, leave the next 3 boxes blank, if you want to set a password, then enter the password In the second and third try boxes, the fourth box you enter the password hint (it will display when you enter the wrong password at login). Wrong then select Next

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Now you continue to wait until the Windows 10 installation is complete

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

After installation, open the System window by going to This PC (press Windows + E) => right-click This PC and select Properties

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

At the System window, if you are not connected to the Internet, you will see the words Connect to the Internet to activate Windows

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Now connect to the internet and wait about 5 minutes, then close and reopen the System window, you will see that Windows is activated (Windows is activated)

 

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

Instructions to install Windows 10 from the hard drive

 

Note: if at first Windows has been activated copyright but when reinstalled under this guide, Windows 10 has not been activated copyright (Windows is not activated), please restart your computer, connect to the internet and wait for approx. 5 minutes later to verify the copyright of Windows 10

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