To speed-up updates I re-plugged my USB Ethernet adapter which promptly caused Win 10 to install a driver for it.ĭevice manager showed many device drivers missing. I do not know if the Win 8 license key was stored in UEFI or if it was stored in my MS account because of a previous Win 10 upgrade.Īfter Setup and before installing any Windows updates wireless internet worked already. When asked for a license key during setup I always skipped. After enabling this my SP3 boots fine from USB.

Later I found that I had disabled „Boot from side USB“ in UEFI advanced security settings. I worked around that using Advanced Startup Options: The current standard Microsoft tools allow to create NTFS only. USB sticks for booting with UEFI must be formatted as FAT32. Via holding volume-up key while releasing the power button. (select GTP partition scheme for UEFI, FAT32, the Windows.iso downloaded). Via Windows 10 using the media creation tool. I used the following steps to do a clean install: Starting Win 10 setup from within Windows does not allow to remove unneeded partitions. For a really clean Win 10 install one must boot from installation media.

Clean install windows 10 on new ssd