No it certainly isn't "Standard" practice just one method for partitioning drives that some prefer while others remain with the gui form running a 3rd party program. The Windows.old folder is seen...

The clean command is one of the commands entered when using the DiskPart tool at the command prompt in the dos like window. You wouldn't use that when simply going into the Install Now and when...

Well first off you can't be booted into WIndows and either reformat or delete the volume. You have to booted live from either a Windows installation media even the dvd for Vista or 7 as well as for...

Have you repartitioned the drive at all or simply reformatted it only? If the volume has seen some corruption as far as the tables are concerned a total wipe of the drive should insure better results...

I trust you are still running the upgrade to 10 and haven't seen to a clean install as of yet. That will now seem to be the best move since you already have 10 activated. And for seeing all the...