Is There Any Way To Make Installation Disk
Nov 6, 2015Is there any way to make an installation disk for Windows 10?
I have my backups and such, but I want a disk where I can scrub the hard disk and reinstall from the beginning.
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In my reagentc /info:
In my disk management:
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