Just got new cube i7 book

[mshayanh13]

reinstall windows 10 to be on the safe side

connect to a wifi network

click on start and search activation

make sure that windows is activated (if not, contact the seller)

install windows 10 on a usb flash drive via windows media creation from microsoft’s website

then put the flash drive in tablet and click on start and search advanced startup options and restart (or restart the computer normally and continuously click delete until the bios comes up and boot from flash drive)

choose the flash drive from the menu and install windows 10 (and erase the hard drive when you get the option to)

[K2efy]

Will this keep the windows key and drivers ?

Cheers

[Paul]

Think I read somewhere that on some of the 10 builds there is a folder you can copy which will  contain the drivers for that install. Seems a very sensible idea but have no idea what it is !

[lumpy]

Hi guys,

I just received my book and thank you for information.

I didn’t find my windows keythus I didn’t dare to format and reinstall Win10 🙁

[Sing Along]

I created an emergency drive and installed windows from there.

Wiped all files and programs but if the windows files are infected by default, can’t do much about that.

that will retain whatever key there is.

[lumpy]

Your emergency drive was created from the utility Windows?

I’ll try this evening, thanks 😉

[mshayanh13]

drivers are present on the cube i7 book download’s page on this website

[K2efy]

think ill get a bigger ssd and clone it then i can have a little play,then when i open it up maybe ill add a 1mm pad in it,least with a cloned drive it will be safer

 

[Paul]

When I got my book from Gearbest it had obviously been turned on after leaving the factory as the start up procedure that is detailed in the paperwork supplied was different and also it asked me on several occasions if I wanted to install some dodgy task bar (cannot remember name but a Google search showed it to be something nasty). I assumed this was Gearbest trying to be helpful by having it configured in English but nevertheless I didn’t like it. So I went into the old style Control Panel and then Windows 7 Backup/Restore and did a factory reset there. It reinstalled a completely fresh Windows and left a Windows.old. Did not need to reinstall drivers or anything else.

[lumpy]

And Win10 was reinstalled ? Without asking for the key/licence?

[ahrlad]

I’m pretty sure the key is stored in UEFI, a fresh Windows install shouldn’t be a problem

[Paul]

lumpy wrote:

And Win10 was reinstalled ? Without asking for the key/licence?

Yes – you are given two choices, reinstall and keep your programs or full install and lose everything bar files. As I said there must be an option to roll back as there is a Windows.old created when you have done it. I must admit I was a bit nervous because of the driver issue which I had not got before I did it but everything went smoothly. I took various system images and created a startup disk using an old USB cd drive but did not need any in the end.

However I made a mistake in my previous post. The option to reinstall is not in the old W7 backup but in the new W10 Settings/Update & Security/Recovery and then Reset this PC. It does not ask for a key. Sorry for the mistake 🙂

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