Some difficulties figuring out how to set up my hard drives to work with the OS, and Microsoft's own help forums were not exceptionally helpful (or rather, they just didn't point me to exactly where I needed to go

I installed this onto a laptop after I had totally wiped the previous hard drive.

If you have a new hard drive, this is for you, though I advise to use the USB, both 32 and 64 bit files in one, 6gb flash drive as cuts install time in half.

I've lost 3 external hard drives due to this and still haven't figured out how to get my data back!

I installed it on a new hard drive that I just received

Purchased the build disk since the Windows 10 upgrade kept crashing and almost bricked my hard drive (plus I can't find my 7 disk).

it created 500 hard drive partionns on my hard drive with nothing insideI have zero hard drive space to work withthen lots of blue screen of death when opening a folder .spyware jail lock fees by the thousands of dollarsand rude Microsoft phone callsand it broken a brand new gaming notebook.

No dramatic changes were made to my system or hard drive, other than this

Disk is just as easy as the usb drive

Windows 10 Home loaded quickly and easily on a new hard drive

The disk was corrupted having been damaged which resulted in corrupting my hard drive when attempting to load it.

Plus I'd read that some people who try to clean install their previous operating system to wipe out Windows 10 are still finding Windows 10 based changes and artifacts on some partitions of their hard drive

the keyboard AND the mouse would not function except when I went into the BIOS...before it booted to the hard drive

If you are still using windows 7 and want the windows 10 upgrade pop up to disappear then all you have to do is wipe your hard drive and reinstall windows 7

Installed easily on a new hard drive.

The only solution appears to purchase another Solid State Hard Drive, reinstall Windows 7 with my original disk and the start the laborious task of reentering my programs

My hard drive died so I bought an SSD along with a fresh copy of Windows 10 and it works really great.

Loaded onto new hard drive in old laptop

WD Black 2TB Performance Desktop Hard Drive

They even warn you, in the agreement that you have to agree to before installing it, that they will access the data on your hard drive if they decide they want it

After I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled the operating system, the automatic windows update sent my computer in a spiraling loop that I couldn't get out of

Install was clean and easy on a blank hard drive.

hard drive don't work

This is the standalone or system builder, only for a empty hard drive.

The only solution appears to purchase another Solid State Hard Drive, reinstall Windows 7 with my original disk and the start the laborious task of reentering my programs

I had a failed hard drive in a laptop

I can't recall an OS that deleted saved work, short of a hard drive failure

The computer has both a solid state drive and a regular 1TB drive

Be ready, like I am and have two hard drive to go back and forth

It looses connections to hard drives, sound ports cut in and out, it crashes

I bought a new hard drive and installed the OS with no issues.

I planned to format Windows 10 off the Solid State Drive included in my Lenovo Yoga 900 ISK2, and Windows 10 was nothing more than a placeholder OS until I could get around to that

NO WHERE in any of the instructions nor packaging does it say that installing windows 10 will reformat one's hard drive and thus erase all one's data and programs!

Anyway, it's an OK platform when its not crashing your entire hard drive while updating

I have also replaced my hard drive because I suspected that was corrupted too; I had tried to wipe my hard drive and reinstall Windows 7 clean after the rollback window was over, and I had problems

One note: after the installer copies the files to the selected hard drive and does some installation it will tell you Windows needs to restart, and give you a 10-second countdown

Have used this WIN 10 CD 2 times (Separate Purchases) on an HP Desktop and on a HP Laptop after installing new Hard-drives, never had a problem booting from the CD, using the F10 prompt to change the boot configuration

it created 500 hard drive partionns on my hard drive with nothing insideI have zero hard drive space to work withthen lots of blue screen of death when opening a folder .spyware jail lock fees by the thousands of dollarsand rude Microsoft phone callsand it broken a brand new gaming notebook.

I would have done so myself if I knew how to write the code to add additional hard drives in Linux

Arrived on time, installed it on a new hard drive for my laptop and now my laptop is functional again after 5 months being dormant

Pair this with a solid state drive and boot times can be 15-20 seconds

And trying to uninstall a few things on the solid state drive just doesn't work

Some difficulties figuring out how to set up my hard drives to work with the OS, and Microsoft's own help forums were not exceptionally helpful (or rather, they just didn't point me to exactly where I needed to go

I had to install new win10 because a tech installed win8 when he put in a larger hard drive

Then DISCONNECT the external drive so MS can't corrupt it during the install.

Used it to make the Seagate 2TB BarraCuda internal hard drive a boot drive.

Fun fact, apparently if you replace your OS hard drive, you're hosed when it comes to activating Windows

during my editing process this software creates and it doesn't stop creating folders with tons in files in them and that takes up all my hard drive space causing me issues while editing.

I bought a New hard drive for my PC with no OS installed

My new Asus laptop did the exact same thing, however, this time I cloned my hard drive, while changing to SSD before I did anything and the same thing happen

If it tells you that your drive has errors when you plug it in, do NOT try to repair those errors

Microsoft Privacy Policy allows Microsoft to scan the entire contents of users' hard drives and capture keystrokes while monitoring web traffic and reading e-mails.

Boot times are crazy fast, even if you just have a standard hard drive but even faster if you have a SSD

Windows 10, like its predecessors, scrambles MBR file on hard drives, "slows down" with use, and now will ERASE any directory IT doesn't approve of (Such as 1.2TB worth of backed-up movie collection over a USB 3.0 drive Linux had to rescue.)

It would not see my SATA hard drives at all on my new computer

If you have a new hard drive, this is for you, though I advise to use the USB, both 32 and 64 bit files in one, 6gb flash drive as cuts install time in half.

Key listed on this product is false, for the same price I have to get a genuine OM in Best buy to install in my computer after replacing the hard drive, Since I couldn't recovery

My PC hard drive died, so I bought a new drive, a new video card, and a new WiFi card that are compatible with Windows 10.

I have to put a new hard drive in my gaming

I DO recommend buying a version and doing a clean install on a new hard drive over the upgrade, as it went much more smoothly than the laptop that I upgraded.

Boot times are crazy fast, even if you just have a standard hard drive but even faster if you have a SSD

My valid 8.1 installation is now gone, I cannot reactivate it on my new hard drive (?

When I transferred a large file from an external hard drive via an ESATA plate the transfer rate was 115 mb/sec vs the 150 mb/sec that I routinely see with the win 7 computers

Windows 10 ruins external hard drives

If you're a died-in-the-wool MS fan, and feel you MUST try this, be sure to put a full copy of your hard drive on an external hard drive first.

After buying and installing a brand new hard drive and not letting Windows 10 touch it, and putting a clean copy of Windows 7 on it, my computer is doing better (I can get the onboard - motherboard - graphics to come up, at least), but my graphics card still needs replacing, too