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Advice for a Windows 10 clean install
Hello Everyone,
I would like to do a clean install on my HP dv6 laptop with a primary 128 GB Crucial M4 SSD with a secondary 1 TB Toshiba HDD 5400rpm (installed in the DVD bay) and was hoping to get some advice on best way to perform a clean install of Windows 10 while creating new volumes, etc.
I am not a power user, but would like to reserve an area to install a second OS in the future. I do have one FAT32 partition on the SSD reserved for HP_Tools which I would like to shrink if possible, because it is allocated 100 MB even though it only uses 20 MB.
I have already upgraded from Windows 8, and performed one clean install via USB.
Some thoughts and questions:
- I would like to keep my working files separate from the OS
- Does an OS need to be installed on a Primary Volume?
- Can the HDD have Primary Volumes?
- Is the 4 Primary Volume limitation still in place?
- Supposedly I have UEFI support ..... does that eliminate the Primary Volume limitation?
Basically I would like to end up with a reliable and fast system that can be easily recovered. And in the future I may play around with Android emulators, etc.
I am not a complete newbie, but it has been some time since I have played around with these things, so perhaps it is better to treat me so.
I have backed up both drives so, no problem deleting everything. I imagine I must keep the HP_Tools partition because I think they keep UEFI info there too, but I am not sure.
Thanks in advance!