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What you suggest would leave him with a windows.old folder. I formatted it, then ran the clean to make it unallocated which allows the installer to create whatever partitions are required.
What you suggest would leave him with a windows.old folder. I formatted it, then ran the clean to make it unallocated which allows the installer to create whatever partitions are required.
I think Topgun is right - your process cleans the drive, creates a partition, formats it, then cleans the drive. One clean is enough, methinks
By cleaning the drive, and doing a Clean install, there is no Windows.old folder.
TopGun: What is a reversed partition
If you fresh install of Windows 10. The partitions layout was changed. It is not 350MB reversed partition.
just having a bit 'o fun - you can check my spelling any time - it's horrendous ... can't spell easy words like teh
edit: I really need to refresh the thread BEFORE I post what another member has already posted - sheesh!
I understand where you were coming from, essenbe. If I wanted a new partition, Windows Disk Manager was (and probably still is) the last option I would use to create it simply because I had no idea how that partition would get created. Usually, "back in the day" it was a logical partition and I liked have good ol' solid primary partitions.
I didn't say you were wrong Steve, I said I thought TopGun was right (emphasizing the positive)
The process itself isn't wrong either, just 3 of the 4 steps are unnecessary
Hope your evening is better.
Bill
I think this would have been the simplest way of doing what the OP is looking for.
If you delete the partition and then let Windows format and install into the unallocated space, there will be no Windows.old folder. And I've clean installed using the simple method on the SP2 and 2 PCs.