I installed Windows 10, my image drive is still the old v8.0, how do I update my hard drive image?

lhturner

My Aspire S7 had Windows 8.0 when I purchased it, and this is the version that is on the Image Drive partition of my hard drive.  (It literally took me three days to get updated from the old 8.0, thorugh 8.1, and up to v10 of Windows.) a Major nightmare, so I want to blow away the v8.0 image that's on my hard drive, and replace it with the image I have now, that is the fresh install of v10.  How do I do that?

 

I tried using Acer Backup Manager, but it keeps wanting to put the image on a USB drive, and won't give me the option to replace the old 8.0 image with the new v10 image.

 

I never want to have to go through updating from 8.0 to 10 again, I can't afford to waste 3 days on such a project again, and I don't want to waste my hard drive image sitting there with POS v8.0

 

Thanks for help.

LT

IronFly

You can't update the Acer recovery to windows 10, it will always remains with windows 8.

 

the only thing you can try is to create a system image using windows built-in tool, so in the worst case, you can load this system image without having to do all the updates.

 what's a system image (it's for windows 7 but it applies to 8 and 10 too)

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/what-is-a-system-image

 

how to do a system image:

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5495-system-image-create-windows-10-a.html

 

or you can download a bootable windows 10 media, to do a clean install on your system, wiping the HDD (you will need to backup your personal data first)

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10