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Installing Windows 10 after DBAN

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Yep, that's it. The media creation tool creates a bootable installer. If that wasn't the case, nobody could ever install Windows as hard drives come erased from the factory ;)  

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I'm getting rid of a computer, well a few, so I'm using DBAN to get clear the HDD's. For most of them, i'm just getting rid of them so I don't need to install any OS' on them afterwards, but for one of them I want to install windows 10 on it. I have downloaded the media creation tool from Microsoft, ran it, and set up the USB I want to boot Windows 10 from. Is this all I need if I'm going to boot windows 10 on the computer after DBAN? I'm guessing that the media creation tool runs the windows 10 set up when you boot it from the USB?

 

Thanks for any responses.  

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Yep, that's it. The media creation tool creates a bootable installer. If that wasn't the case, nobody could ever install Windows as hard drives come erased from the factory ;)  

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Yep.

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