Aug 02, 2016  Browse to the folder where you saved the Windows 10 ISO file and right-click on it. Select Open with Windows File Explorer. You will be able to see the contents of the ISO file.

1. Install Windows 10 From Iso Without Key

Okay, here's the issue - I have the Windows 10 Creator's Update ISO copied to a secondary drive, and mounted - I would like to blank my existing primary partition and install Windows 10 TO that partition. The partition itself is GPT (and it will remain that way, and be a primary partition). The reason I am using this methodology is due to lacking a thumb drive or USB stick. In short, it will be a modified clean install; the difference is that it will be started from within the original installation.Is this, in fact, doable? To do a clean install, I believe you have to boot to the drive with the installation, then wipe out the drive where it will be installed. Even if you mount it from another disc, the installation files will copy over to your current OS drive (if you run setup from within Windows), so you can't continue that installation, then continue to format that disc - it has your installation files on it.

You have to boot to the image.Of course you can't boot to the mounted ISO, since it's mounted from within your already running OS. You have to get it on a DVD or a jump drive to do a clean install. At least I think.Or, you can install it from the mounted image, and select to get rid of everything (do a clean install), but it won't reformat that drive before installing the new version of Windows. You'll have to remove that afterwards, I'm pretty sure. I'm sure that setup copies the content of the ISO/DVD into several hidden folders that are deleted once install is finished.UNfortunately, you're right on that - it does NOT get rid of the (unused) contents - it simply moves them to the Windows.old folder. (Nertz.) Even though I can still access that folder, I was actually hoping it would get rid of those folders - not simply move them. Still, I can move those folders - but I have to wait until I get a proper thumb drive first and install the CU properly.

Install Windows 10 From Iso Without Key

IMPORTANT: Before you perform any installation steps, ensure that your data is backed up.You can use the Rufus bootable USB tool to correctly 'burn' the ISO to the USB drive. That way it will be bootable to the system.Windows will only create a Windows.old folder if you do an in-place upgrade. If you perform a clean install, you will be formatting the hard drive, therefore there will be nothing to create a Windows.old with.Also, during the initial stages of a clean install, it will create an unseen X: drive which is copies the necessary data to from the installation media. It then uses this data to install the core files to your HDD and then expand them from there. I can't remember if the X: drive is a HDD partition or RAM.

IMPORTANT: Before you perform any installation steps, ensure that your data is backed up.You can use the Rufus bootable USB tool to correctly 'burn' the ISO to the USB drive. That way it will be bootable to the system.Windows will only create a Windows.old folder if you do an in-place upgrade. If you perform a clean install, you will be formatting the hard drive, therefore there will be nothing to create a Windows.old with.Also, during the initial stages of a clean install, it will create an unseen X: drive which is copies the necessary data to from the installation media. It then uses this data to install the core files to your HDD and then expand them from there. I can't remember if the X: drive is a HDD partition or RAM.Just an amendment:I noticed that you are planning on using a normal HDD instead of a USB. Whilst I have never done this myself, it may be possible.

If Rufus cannot do it, then you may need to use Disk Part.To use Disk Part:1) Open an elevated command prompt2) Type the following commandsa) List diskb) select disk x (x = specific disk number listed by the above command)c) cleand) format quick fs=ntfse) activef) assign3) Copy the contents of the ISO onto the newly partitioned drive.4) Reboot the PC and attempt to boot from the drive. Okay, here's the issue - I have the Windows 10 Creator's Update ISO copied to a secondary drive, and mounted - I would like to blank my existing primary partition and install Windows 10 TO that partition. The partition itself is GPT (and it will remain that way, and be a primary partition). The reason I am using this methodology is due to lacking a thumb drive or USB stick. In short, it will be a modified clean install; the difference is that it will be started from within the original installation.Is this, in fact, doable?you can install w/ qemu - it works like a charm for lnx/bsd, but w10 will complain about hardware. So it takes additional legworks.

What you want cannot be done because after it reboots you will be deleting the Operating system that mounted the image, Plus, after every reboot the image will be unmounted, (and in your case) it cannot be remounted. It only works with bootable removable media like DVD disks, Blu-Ray disks or a USB thumb drive. Now if you already have Windows 10 on your device then you may want to do what they call 'Fresh Start'.

You may want to wait through the month to do the Fresh start because it may only install a clean copy of the Anniversary update.Microsoft's Fresh Start can be found at this Microsoft Website:Edited April 5, 2017 by jesseinsfcorected spelling. It doesn't matter: iso needs to be mounted to boot installation from there.He does not have boot media like a Flash drive or DVD. So, in his case he CANNOT install Windows. The only other way is Windows Deployment Services (WDS) which it can install windows over the network. So, If I were him, I'd upgrade and then go in to the new Windows Defender settings and under 'device performance and health' choose 'Additional info' under 'Fresh Start'. In his case this is the only option which would be closest to a clean fresh install.

The problem is, I cannot guarantee that it will install the Creator's Update. Instead, it may install the Anniversary update.

As time goes by, the free space of Windows 10 system partition will become less and less and Windows 10 will get slower and slower. In this case, most of us will choose to reinstall the entire Windows 10 operating system.That's no problem, you can install Windows from a CD/DVD dirve or you can install Windows from a USB drive. But if your computer doesn't have an optical drive or you don't know anything about computer technology, then reinstalling Windows 10 operating system becomes very difficult.Is there any way we can 10 directly from an ISO file, even if I don't know much about computer technology?The answer is yes, WinToHDD can help you reinstalling Windows 10 directly from an ISO file instead of from a CD/DVD or USB drive.Tutorial to reinstall Windows 10 directly from an ISO file with.Step 1. Download, install, and Run WinToHDD, then click the button.Step 2. Click the button, then click the button and select the ISO file from the open dialog box.Step 3. WinToHDD scans for and lists installable operating systems. If you see the edition of Windows you want to install, select it, then click 'Next'.Step 4.

WinToHDD will automatically select the target and from the partition list, and the selected partitions will be marked as red.Step 5. Click 'Next'. After clicking 'Next', a pop-up will appear asking you if you want to build a WinPE image to continue. Click 'Yes'.Step 6.

After successfully builded the WinPE image, WinToHDD will prompt you to reboot the computer, click 'Yes' button to allow WinToHDD to reboot your computer.Step 7. It takes some time to reinstall Windows. After successfully reinstalled restart the computer, Windows installation starts up and you have to complete all the installation steps.Follow these simple steps, you can move Windows 10 to a new hard disk drive with WinToHDD easily.