How Clean Install WOA?

[RobHalligan]

My Asus NovaGo Windows on Arm machine is running W10 Pro (not W10 S). I'd like to do a clean install or at least make a recovery thumb drive. When the W10 1809 ISO comes out (and proves reliable), can I just download and clean install W10 Pro as I would on an Intel machine? ​

 

[RobHalligan]

It updated on it's own to 1803 today. It'd still been on 1709.The update showed up on Monday morning and took 2 hours to install itself.

I read on Thurrott.com 1809 not being available is putting the Snapdragon 850 powered computers on hold.

I think I'll try to burn an ISO of this version of 1803 with he Media Creation Tool as my back-up media. That tool should give me the ARM version of W10 if the bits are different than the Intel version.

 

[jeffgeno]

It updated on it's own to 1803 today. It'd still been on 1709.The update showed up on Monday morning and took 2 hours to install itself.

I read on Thurrott.com 1809 not being available is putting the Snapdragon 850 powered computers on hold.

I think I'll try to burn an ISO of this version of 1803 with he Media Creation Tool as my back-up media. That tool should give me the ARM version of W10 if the bits are different than the Intel version.

The ARM version of 1809 is available as an ISO through the Volume Licensing Service Center. I'm going to try to install it as an upgrade on an Envy x2. I'm not sure if Microsoft is going to make it available to consumers outside of the VLSC.

 

[RobHalligan]

There's a good discussion on clean installing here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/9i5lxl/how_to_create_windows_10_arm_install_media_for/ The conclusion is (at the point I'm linking) you can't and you probably don't need to.

So that leaves us with the other q. When will 1809 get pushed to the few Snapdragon 835 chip devices?