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Partitions Thwarting Install on HP Laptop
Hi all,
Rather than go it alone, I'm asking for some tag along assistance.
I have a HP Touch LapTop that came with Win 8.1.
It is HP product # 15-f010wm
500 GB storage
4 GB Ram
I upgraded to Win 10 last year and my daughter brought it back to me for fixing because she couldn't get the Wi-Fi turned on, and it was slow as a cart drawn by a crippled bison.
I resolved the Wi-Fi issue but I've never seen any machine this slow. Not even a 10 inch with an Intel Celeron my ex had some years ago. This thing is so slow as to be unusable.
She said it started being like that last year.
Rather than do the regular malware cleanup, I want to do a tactical nuke and reinstall.
It has at least 6 partitions. I want to keep 3.
The one where Win 10 will be installed, the one where all her files are stored, and the OEM recovery partition.
What can I do to partition this since it won't boot?
I attempted to repartition with EaseUS partition manager but it stalled on reboot, and won't reboot since. The reason I tried to repartition is because it wouldn't allow me to install Win 10 from a Win 10 CD. What it would do is hang on reboot so the install would never initialize. I don't know if it's because of the UEFI bootloader that HP has on the thing. My daughter did tell me that was one of the issues she experienced before. On reboots, it would randomly hang and never reboot.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to delete all the partitions I don't want (since it won't boot), so I can install a clean copy of Win 10? I have tried deleting or reformatting the partitions from the boot CD I'm using but that's a no go. I can't tell if that's because of UEFI.
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