[Dave]

You have a PIPO, not a Chuwi – so I don’t know.

In theory – yes, accept the Window 10 upgrade from Microsoft, but do make sure you’ve got all the drivers required for the Pipo – especially touchscreen drivers. It’s a good idea to remove the SD card, people have reported upgrades not working due to these being inserted.

[Dave]

To get to the latest Windows 10 – 1511, I no longer own a Chuwi Hi8, but I do have a Teclast X98 Pro dual boot that flat out refused to update and got stuck at 40% in all attempts.

The solution was to remove the SD card I had forgotten I’d put in! So it’s worth bearing this in mind….

[Dave]

Touch drivers as in my previous post are available to download from this site – use my instructions to install.

If your USB hub isn’t working, try a different one.

[Dave]

Solution here : http://techtablets.com/forums/topic/insyde-windows-to-android-switcher/

Although for the vi10 – this sorted out my Hi8 with Windows 10.

[Dave]

So can you get any Chuwi logo at all?? If you can get the device to boot, you can reinstall Windows.

[Dave]

All those other partitions are to do with Android. I know the 7GB one is Android data – delete that and you’re looking at Chinese Android!!!

If you want rid of Android – follow a guide to delete the partitions and merge them with your Windows partition.

[Dave]

I would suggest a complete reinstall of Windows 10.  I had the exact same issue – didn’t matter what I changed to English (UK), some things still didn’t work correctly.

[Dave]

Resetting Windows 10 on the Chuwi is bad. M’kay. It doesn’t like it and you’ll have to reinstall Windows 10. With all the drivers.

See the stickied post about cleanly installing Windows 10 in this forum, it has an attachment to the correct OS Switching software. 🙂

[Dave]

Thought I’d add some bits in here.

[MAKE SURE YOU’VE INSTALLED FROM WINDOWS 8 ALREADY OR ACTIVATION WILL NOT OCCUR]

I decided to ‘RESET’ Windows 10. Because I was annoyed with half Chinese/US English settings. Cortana wouldn’t work and I knew there was a whole load of Microsoft settings I wanted turned off. BIG MISTAKE. Windows would not reset, or restart. I just got a blank screen everytime I tried to restart Windows 10.

No option then, but to try and re-install.

– when you first create the USB image, when you download the Media Creation Tool – tell it to use the USB drive(which should be plugged in), this will avoid having to use Rufus. Make sure you install the correct Media Creation Tool for YOUR CURRENT laptop/PC or whatever – install onto the USB stick a 32bit version of Windows 10 though.

– If you do use Rufus, use these settings : Partition scheme etc : GPT Partition scheme for UEFI, File System : FAT32,  Cluster Size : 4096 bytes  (When you select the Windows.ISO it changes these settings, change em back!!)

After this.

– Copy all the drivers for Hi8 to the USB drive, including Double Driver application. As stated in first post. UNZIP DRIVERS to USB DRIVE. Use Winrar or Windows, right click, unzip to ‘folder name’.

Your tablet should boot from the USB drive straight away.

Follow prompts for a new install – when you reach the partitions page, you’re looking to format and install on a drive that is 10GB in size. NOT 7GB in size. (The 7GB one is Android settings and if you format this one, you’ll be trying to figure out how to get Chinese Android back to English!!)

Install away. Because I work in IT and was too lazy to read all the instructions….to do with Double Drive – don’t!!!! Save yourself some time and pain!!!!

Fire up Double Drive from the USB – run it as administrator and select the root directory of all the drivers, that is the one that they’re all in. (Chuwi Hi8 drivers backup doubledriver) – it will find all the drivers – install them all. Even unsigned ones.

Touch screen. You’ll find on restart Windows 10 does tablet mode.  Click on start. On the top left, click on the three lines. At the bottom, click on settings, then System, Tablet Mode. Turn it off. This allows you to do Touch screen.

Go into Device Manager(right click start menu) – you’ll find a device Windows doesn’t know. Right click on this and update the driver, find the directory which has the SileadTouch driver in it (Win 10 SileadTouch-Package_s806_MSSL0001) – update with this driver – you should get touchscreen back. Mine didn’t work at first, but I uninstalled the driver and reinstalled – and it worked.

Now – the OS switcher. I tried the Onda one – but this just kept loading at system runtime. I tried to make a batch file to stop and start the service, but this was kinda cumbersome. Then I found, via this forum, someone who found the correct version of the DualOSSwitcher software. (Attached, but could use going in the downloads section for Chuwi) – install this, reboot and you’ll now have the original functionality. Double click it to return to Android.

Any questions on this process – let me know, having just been through it all!!! Good luck.

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