What happens to restore partitions when upgrading to win10?
What happens to the restore partitions when old win7 dell machines are upgraded to windows 10? I'm doing an SSD install and upgrade on a machine for someone and wondering wether i should blow away the restore partition or not.
Current plan is...
- do a restore from restore partition.
- clone drive to 250GB ssd (should fit after a fresh restore)
- do online windows 10 upgrade
After this point isn't the restore partition now useless as it contains the old windows 7? Should i just leave it like this or go further and ...
- download windows 10 install image to usb
- using win10 usb and do a fresh clean install that deletes all partitions and formats the entire drive
- manually install all the dell drivers and do all win10 updates.
- make a bootable restore image usb with acronis (or whatever program i end up using) and give them this usb as their emergency restore disk
Any thoughts appreciated.
Current plan is...
- do a restore from restore partition.
- clone drive to 250GB ssd (should fit after a fresh restore)
- do online windows 10 upgrade
After this point isn't the restore partition now useless as it contains the old windows 7? Should i just leave it like this or go further and ...
- download windows 10 install image to usb
- using win10 usb and do a fresh clean install that deletes all partitions and formats the entire drive
- manually install all the dell drivers and do all win10 updates.
- make a bootable restore image usb with acronis (or whatever program i end up using) and give them this usb as their emergency restore disk
Any thoughts appreciated.