Windows 10 reinstall after hard drive crash

[spkenny]

I have a laptop windows 10 that just crashed the other day. I'm putting in a new hard drive, but have no clue as to how to recover my windows 10 installation without a disc, etc. Plenty of info out there on creating a bootable recovery flash drive, and doing a fresh install from a boot menu, but I didn't do any of that before hand. How do I obtain the windows 10 installation for a new hard drive?

 

[MaikuTech]

You need to find another computer to do this all of this.
Tell the windows 10 media installation to save you an iso.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028192/windows-create-an-iso-file-for-windows-10

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool

Use this to burn the windows 10 iso to a sandisk 8gb flash drive.

 

[NeedAssist]

Even simpler. Do it all in one step (tool)

• Download Windows Media Creation Tool
  • Under "Create Windows 10 installation media" section hit button Download Now)
• Insert a flash drive (min. 8GB)
• Run media creation tool. Select the flash drive when it asks where to create media

Voila. You're done.