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Need help with a clean Windows 10 install
After using a Microsoft account to login to Windows, then deciding to switch to a local profile, and giving myself Admin privileges, my Windows permissions are so messed up I've decided to start with a clean install. I tried reinstalling Windows hoping to fix some of these problems, but it's only become worse. Now, whenever I try a clean install, my SSD now has 4 partitions on it and when Windows boots up on my optical drive, it won't let me remove all of the previous partitions it created to use as a recovery drive. Currently, I don't have anything on the drive, just all of these partitions, which I'd like to get rid of instead of adding 2 more. Does anyone know how I can remove these partitions before installing Windows 10 Pro again? When I boot off of the Windows 10 disk and it comes up to the screen for me to choose where I want it installed, it shows all of these partitions, but it doesn't allow me to remove any of the partitions on my drive. If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
Here are the options I've given when booting from the Windows 10 disk:
Total Size Free Space
Drive 2 Unallocated Space 451.00MB 451.00MB
Drive 2 Partition 1 100.00MB 95.00MB System
Drive 2 Partition 2 127.00MB 127.00MB MSR (Reserved)
Drive 2 Partition 3 236.3 GB 236.1 GB Dynamic
Drive 2 Partition 5 799.00MB 784.00MB Recovery
Drive 2 Partition 6 790.00MB 775.00MB Recovery
When each partition is selected, none give me the option to delete the partition nor extend the partition. I'm only given an option to format Partition 1, 3, 5, and 6, but I'm not able to remove any of the partitions.
Last edited by rolldog; 28 Nov 2016 at 10:56.