Will this USB boot disk have what I need to...

mef1975

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hirens-Boot...637547?hash=item2a5e6a176b:g:ZsYAAOSwSdZWff5b

Will this USB boot disk have everything I need to...

...boot the computer from USB port,

completely reformat the C drive (without getting the drive is "in use" error code),

load whatever drivers I need to get online (Ethernet and/or wireless) so that I can download and install Windows 10 (which I happen to have a good activation code for)?

If not, what would?



Also, when I search the forums for my id, it doesn't bring up all the questions I've asked, is there a reason why? It only brought up old ones.
 
I keep hearing that there is a Windows Installer that will let me do what I want, but from my experience, which is severely limited to XP from a decade ago, if the computer isn't booted up with a dvd, cd-rom, or flashdrive (BOOT MEDIA) with another OS, separate from the C drive, the C drive cannot be formatted, as it will be "in use". Is that not the case anymore? How did they fix that?

So, what does the Windows Media Creation Tool and Windows Installer do? Will they let me boot up the computer, without using the C drive, thus letting me completely reformat it, then install Windows 10, completely fresh?
 
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691209

That will download the Media Creation Tool. Once you run it, it will download a Windows 10 ISO and install it on a USB drive of your choosing. Then you boot the PC with the USB key and install from there. When you boot into the installer, you can remove any existing partitions and all of the existing data will be lost (a fresh format, if you will).

Keep in mind that will wipe all data, make sure you have sufficient backups of any sensitive or valuable data before proceeding.
 
if the computer isn't booted up with a dvd, cd-rom, or flashdrive (BOOT MEDIA) with another OS, separate from the C drive, the C drive cannot be formatted, as it will be "in use". Is that not the case anymore? How did they fix that?
.....You're booting to the flashdrive, not the hard drive.
 
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