Best steps for re-installing W10 (after "Restore to factory default")

[sunil79]

Hi all,
My nephews Asus Laptop, which shipped with W10, got infected with malware, so I decided the best way to get rid of this was to use W10's own restart/restore tool

I chose the belt and braces option of "Restore to factory default and Remove Everything" (the last option)

Only thing is this reverted the laptop to 8.1 which i wasn't expecting!!

So my question is, to save as much time as possible and have the cleanest possible install of w10, what should i do?
1) Do i actually have to upgrade the machine to w10 first, and then select the "Remove everything" option?
2) Can i use a boot DVD at this stage and install w10? (will this method format the disk?)

Ideally i'd like a proper format of the disk, (although not completely necessary if either "remove everything" or "restore factory defaults" does do a format???)

Thanks in advance

 

[Chintan Gohel]

Hi all,
My nephews Asus Laptop, which shipped with W10, got infected with malware, so I decided the best way to get rid of this was to use W10's own restart/restore tool

I chose the belt and braces option of "Restore to factory default and Remove Everything" (the last option)

Only thing is this reverted the laptop to 8.1 which i wasn't expecting!!

So my question is, to save as much time as possible and have the cleanest possible install of w10, what should i do?
1) Do i actually have to upgrade the machine to w10 first, and then select the "Remove everything" option?
2) Can i use a boot DVD at this stage and install w10? (will this method format the disk?)

Ideally i'd like a proper format of the disk, (although not completely necessary if either "remove everything" or "restore factory defaults" does do a format???)

Thanks in advance

if you're sure you don't want windows 8.1, then do the official upgrade, after upgrade is complete, do a disk cleanup and remove old installation files. Note that this will remove the installation files for 8.1 completely. Once that is done, you can do a reset

Or, after upgrading, just leave it as it is and be careful about which sites you visit and what you click on