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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Clean Installation

A clean installation means your installation ignores a previous installation of

Windows, wiping out the old version as the new version of Windows installs.

A clean installation is also performed on a new system with a completely

blank mass storage drive. The advantage of doing a clean installation is that

you don’t carry problems from the old OS over to the new one. The

disadvantage is that you need to back up and then restore all your data,

reinstall all your applications, and reconfigure the desktop and each

application to the user’s preferences. You typically perform a clean

installation by setting CMOS to boot from the optical drive or USB before

the hard drive or SSD. You then boot off a Windows installation disc/drive,

and Windows gives you the opportunity to partition and format the hard drive

or SSD during the installation process.

NOTE The CompTIA A+ 1002 objectives mention refresh/restore as an

appropriate method of installing Windows, and in some scenarios this is true.

Both refresh and restore install some or all of an operating system as an

attempt to fix an OS that’s not functioning properly. We’ll cover System

Restore in detail in Chapter 14, “Maintaining and Optimizing Operating

Systems,” and tackle Refresh your PC when we hit troubleshooting in

Chapter 16.

Upgrade Installation

For decades, if you wanted to take advantage of a new version of some

operating system, you had to grab (usually purchase) the new version and go

through a process called an upgrade installation. You might find yourself in a

situation where you need to upgrade an older version of Windows to

Windows 10, so let’s talk about an upgrade installation.

In an upgrade installation, the new OS installs into the same folders as the

old OS, or in tech speak, the new installs on top of the old. The new OS

replaces the old OS, but retains data and applications and also inherits all of

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