If I were to install this onto the SP3 rather than in a VM, does Windows offer anything like a 'internet recovery' like OS X does? Where if necessary you can download the old version and it blats the machine including the recovery partition to the way it was out of the box?
I am just aware the SP3 did not come with a recovery disk (or even a DVD drive), and I don't think it even listed what my Windows 8 key is anywhere (I could be wrong).
Or does Windows 10 preview currently not change the existing recovery partition?
Frank, @ctitanic , has a pinned thread at the beginning of this forum that has a link explaining how to download and create a recovery disk/image. Very useful. I used it to crate a recovery USB image in case I need it.
Reasons to switch from 8.1 to 10? which are the real advantages?
I use the iobit startbutton and I eliminating the frustrating start button, for the rest windows 8.1 it's ok and I would change to 10 only when I will upgrade the Sp3 to Sp4 or what will come a day.
Give us some reason to change to 10, something we can't miss
Has anyone had any issue after installing Windows 10 and then going back to Windows 8.1?