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Windows 10 Clean Install / Delete one-touch recovery system / Drivers
I have a PB (Asus) EasyNote ENTF71BM with Celeron quad core N2930 processor, Intel HD Graphics, 4GB DDR3 L memory. I am British but living in Poland with very limited command of Polish language. I bought the PB in Poland with W8 pre-installed in Polish and everything appeared to work fine in Polish. I and none of my contacts were up-to-date regarding language options and the end result was that after much trouble I eventually installed W8.1 in English after downloading from Microsoft and burning installation disk. I have experienced several problems centred around drivers but have reached a stage where basically machine is fine and when something happens I know how to fix it or it does not appear to have any everyday effect. The main exception is that I cannot get the touchpad to work. I know it is a driver problem as the touchpad works fine when using Linux. The drivers are a custom installation by Asus and the Intel Driver update site will not work.
I now want to do a clean installation of W10 which I hope will eliminate the aggravations I have. I have done the preparation work i.e. backups, installation disks, identified sites for driver downloads but before going ahead I would like advise / help on the following.
- The computer came with a one-touch recovery system that I have never used as it will take me back to Polish. I would like to eliminate this system and use the disk space for general storage. I have Paragon Hard Disk Manager and attached are screen shots of the partitions on my hard drive.
- Which of the partitions can I delete and should I do this before or after W10 installation
- I will keep C for W10 and E+F for my data.
- Following installation / initial set-up can I go to the Intel Driver update site for driver updates and ignore PB / Asus.