Clean win10 pro install on 572 predator
I've done zillions of fresh installs on older computers. Let me know tips on the following plan for my Helios 300 g3 572...
Preinstall.... I have used macrium reflect to set up a bootable flash drive which also contains a fresh win10 pro image dwnlded from Microsoft which I bought (standalone, not oem).
1. Remove the Intel SSD 256gb m.2 (as well as my secondary sata data drive.
2. Pop in a new 500gb 970evo 500gb nvme (leaving the sata d drive out until install is complete). Old 256gb SSD goes to the shelf in case something goes wrong.
3. Boot up predator with bootable flash drive in USB slot....I'm assuming the bios will see the flash drive...in poking around the bios, I notice something called smart boot or something in the uefi area. Not seeing anything that let's me choose boot order of stuff like on older systems....system should simply see the flash drive, right?
4. Install wn10 pro from the flash drive. Let it create a recovery partition too (which I historically don't do but will for this pc). Let win10 dwnld whatever drivers. After install completes, if I notice anything missing in device mgr, I'll grab those direct from the Acer dwnlds page...including predator sense etc.
5. After complete install, win updates, and a little testing, I"ll back up the new install to external hard drives etc with macrium....plus will have to figure out backing up to the recovery partition I have on c....like I say, I've never particularly liked recovery partitions, much less incremental backups (I never ever use "system restore" on any win xp, 7, or other win10 systems.
6. Put my sata d drive back in and go back to work.
Tips? Comments? Thx
