Clean Install on new laptop?

I'm considering the purchase of a new XPS 13. Haven't purchased a new laptop in about 4 years. I recall they shipped with their share of bloatware and a recovery partition. With only 256 GBs of storage, not to mention Dell's issue with that root certificate, I would like to wipe the drive upon arrival and do a clean install of Windows 10. With no CD, what's the way to do this these days?
Thank you.

 

Sure, go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and download windows 10. It'll let you create a bootable DVD or USB drive to install off of.

 

That'll do it. Thank you.

 

I've read on the net that " On newer machines you don't want to make a USB stick "bootable". If you do, it will create a legacy BIOS boot instead of a UEFI boot. Take a look at how MS distributes the recovery image for their Surface Pro devices. Format and copy the zip contents, they don't make it bootable."

I recommend you using RUFUS application to avoid problems with UEFI.

 

Thanks, Mike. I'm familiar with RUFUS and will be using it.

 

To make UEFI USB Boot, format your flash drive with FAT32 then extract the content of .iso to your drive.

 

I'm assuming RUFUS has instructions for techno-dummies like me?

 

I remember few months ago I tried making Windows 7 SP1 bootable USB drive formatted with FAT32 but FAT32 deosn't support larger files than 4GB so I couldn't copy the install.wim file, which was 4,5 GB.

 

Sadly it's been a long time since I've used RUFUS, but this guide looks pretty straight forward:
http://www.intowindows.com/create-uefi-bootable-usb-of-windows-10/

 

That's a great help. Thank you.

 

you're welcome, let us know how it goes.

 

I cant get wifi working after doing a fresh install. I even installed every driver under communications/network.

 

I'm an idiot. I was using the windows 8.1 driver.

 

Hehe. Been there, done that.