Deleting windows 10

[COTG]

I wanted to ask if there was any way of deleting windows 10 from your hdd and nvme drives. The reason for this being that I want to install a new version of windows 10, as my old one is unsupported and causing a lot of issues such as blocking my wifi-ethernet and making me unable to update it. If there is no way to delete it, is there any way to replace it with a newer version that does not require internet, such as having a usb with the newer version and doing some sort of manual update? 

[IntMD]

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

 

As long as your motherboard supports booting from a USB (any reasonably new one should as far as I am aware), go to that link and it will do it for you essentially.

[79wjd]

Create a windows 10 installer USB. Boot into the USB. Select the format option before installing to format the drive. 

[ProjectBox153]

Make a bootable USB with the Windows 10 installer and upgrade Windows that way. 

[COTG]

thanks everyone! I wasnt sure if it would recognize the newer version as "superior" and therefore boot from that one and override the old one. Thanks a lot for clearing it up!

[NinJake]

Just go to your BIOS and make sure the boot order is set to check USB before Hard Drives.

[Bleedingyamato]

15 hours ago, djdwosk97 said:

Create a windows 10 installer USB. Boot into the USB. Select the format option before installing to format the drive. 

Does choosing format 100% erase all partitions from the drive?

 

I'm most likely going to need to reinstall Windows 10 soon but I want to be sure no recovery partitions or anything get left behind when I do the clean install.  

 

The reason I ask is that I remember a little over a year ago when I had first put an ssd in my main desktop, keeping the HDD Windows originally was installed on in the computer for extra storage until I got a larger HDD, I ended up having to use some command prompt command ("clean" I think?) to hardcore erase the HDD since disk management was unable to erase the Windows recovery partitions (pretty sure there were 2 idk why) which was preventing me from having use of thr full capacity of the drive. 

 

 

So I guess I'm trying to figure out if I'll have to use that command again or if there's an easier way like this format at the start of the Windows install process.