Doing a Clean Install, Should I reserve the 350 MB Partition?


  1. Posts : 169
    windows 10
       #1

    Doing a Clean Install, Should I reserve the 350 MB Partition?


    Hi

    Tomorrow I am planning to do a Clean Install, which I have done a number of times using other operating systems.

    I normally go for using One partition, which in this case is the whole 500gb

    But having been having a read of the Clean Installation Instructions, I see a recommendation of reserving a 350mb Partition.

    Is this a good idea or not in practice? so I would like to know what you guys think.
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  2. Posts : 18,421
    Windows 11 Pro
       #2

    Nope. Delete all the partitions on the hard drive and install on the unallocated space. Let Windows 10 make the partitions that it wants to.
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  3. Posts : 1,579
    Windows 10 Pro
       #3

    Haha! Nope. I had 7 partitions on my 2 month old Dell laptop by the time I finished the Win10 Upgrade. Blew them all away in the clean install and now only have 3. (I did keep entire disk images each step along the way.)
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  4. Posts : 169
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       #4

    NavyLCDR said:
    Nope. Delete all the partitions on the hard drive and install on the unallocated space. Let Windows 10 make the partitions that it wants to.
    Hi

    I somehow had a feeling you were going to say that, so I'll just go for One Partition, like I usually do.
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  5. Posts : 169
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    Word Man said:
    Haha! Nope. I had 7 partitions on my 2 month old Dell laptop by the time I finished the Win10 Upgrade. Blew them all away in the clean install and now only have 3. (I did keep entire disk images each step along the way.)
    Hi

    One Partition it is then.
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  6. Posts : 18,421
    Windows 11 Pro
       #6

    Cyberdesigner said:
    Hi

    One Partition it is then.
    No, not one partition. No partitions. Delete all the partitions and install it in the unallocated space.
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  7. Posts : 107
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       #7

    On the Where do you want to install Windows? screen, you'll need to delete all of the partitions. Select a partition and click on the "Delete" option for each partition.

    Once you have deleted all of the partitions, you only see Drive 0 Unallocated Space.

    Click on the "Next" button. The installation of Windows will begin. All the required partitions (see screenshots below) are created automatically during the install.

    Or, if you know what you're doing, you can click on the "New" button and create a separate data partition.



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  8. Posts : 7,254
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
       #8

    Also as your doing a clean install you should unplug any other hard drives you have in your system as Windows can sometimes isntall parts of itself on them. This of course would case problems in the future if you needed to replace the drive for some reason.
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  9. Posts : 169
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    genet said:
    On the Where do you want to install Windows? screen, you'll need to delete all of the partitions. Select a partition and click on the "Delete" option for each partition.

    Once you have deleted all of the partitions, you only see Drive 0 Unallocated Space.

    Click on the "Next" button. The installation of Windows will begin. All the required partitions (see screenshots below) are created automatically during the install.

    Or, if you know what you're doing, you can click on the "New" button and create a separate data partition.



    Hi

    Many Thanks

    For taking the trouble to do that, I think I can take it from there.
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  10. Posts : 169
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       #10

    swarfega said:
    Also as your doing a clean install you should unplug any other hard drives you have in your system as Windows can sometimes isntall parts of itself on them. This of course would case problems in the future if you needed to replace the drive for some reason.
    Hi

    Many Thanks

    No other drives are Installed.
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