Perform a clean install on a disk that has a data partition?


  1. Whatrymes
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    Perform a clean install on a disk that has a data partition?


    I've been considering shrinking my one disk (disk 0) to create another volume, a data partition, but I'm still not clear what happens in the event that I want to refresh, reset or clean install Windows 10 in the future. Would the data partition remain or, as I thought I read, Windows will format the entire disk?

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    Ed
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  3. Harpert
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    Windows 7 (reverted back)
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    As far as I can tell, you can decide to format the entire disk, but you can also use a partition
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