SP3 recovery or Will we be able to upgrade from Windows 10 TP to CP or Release?

[Moiz Mian]

I know in the past, technical previews has always required a complete recovery to get to the final release. Does anyone know if this Technical Preview will be the same? Since I plan to install this on my daily driver (SP3) my main concern is just that I don't want to lose any data. Bugs aren't a big deal, it's just a hassle to manually copy data after a recovery if you don't have to.

Second question: How easy is it to do a recovery to 8.1 in case there is some serious issue that requires me to roll back? I'm not locked out of 8.1 am I?

 

[xandros9]

1. I've heard that the Preview will transition to the final release, but no "smoking-gun it-will-happen" kind of guarantee yet, from what I've seen.

2. I believe, that as long as the recovery is intact, whether on the device or on a drive, it should be all you need.
If you want something like an easy Ctrl+Z to your pre-10 state, then making an image backup of your Surface with a tool like Reflect might be the ticket.

 

[anon(5335899)]

As a fallback, doing a recovery image from within windows should be fine..