Windows 10: Actions during a clean install

When doing a clean install and after clicking to do a custom install
you get a box will all the current drives on the hard disk.
I chose to reformat the C:/ drive as I have done many times.
then continued. Today I received a message about GPT and that the partitions on the selected drive are
not in the recommended order. It also gave the option to continue.
All went fine. W10 TR 10041 installed. there seems to be no problems. I have all my programs installed and all
files and folders. have rebooted many times and no problems.
Should I have deleted all the extra small drives. Also the recovery drive?
I have an image of 8.1 Pro before I did the clean install and have done one image of the new clean install.
Larry

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what apps are removed during a clean install of windows 10?

are all installed programs considered apps and removed when windows 10 does a clean install?

 

what apps are removed during a clean install of windows 10?

Everything on the drive is removed, basically, setup erases the drive.

you can perform a clean install, several ways:

Option 1:

How to: Perform a clean install using Reset this PC in Windows 10

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki...

Option 2:

How to: Create a Recovery Drive for reinstalling Windows 10

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki...

Option 3:

Step 1: How to download official Windows 10 ISO files

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki...

Step 2:

How to: Perform a clean install of Windows 10

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki...

Option 4:

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/perform-a-clea...

 

I delete the System Reserved, EFI, etc system partitions on a clean install. Windows recreates them automatically anyway. The recovery partition is likely non functional now anyway. I deleted it on my ASUS laptop when I wiped the factory 8.0 install for a clean install of 8.1. I keep my user folders like Documents, pictures, music on a separate DATA drive or partition. That's the only partition I don't delete on a reinstall.

 

Thank You Alphanumeric right now I cannot seem to be able to delete the D: recovery.
I am sure that there is a way but in disk management I cannot seem to get an option to delete it or any of the little ones. I am sure when everything is final I will probably do another clean install but right now I am on the slow ring and will do updates.
Larry

 

Don't delete them now, do it during the install. If you do it now you'll break something. You'll end up in a no boot situation.

 

No I have no intentions to do anymore since everything is working.
I also have a laptop and I had done the delete of the recovery partition and expanding the C: drive before I did the clean install on it.
Let's hope April will see another build.
Larry

 

Just for General Information:

Over the past few years, I've been involved in testing several OS's, and following Microsoft's advise, I always like to install to a Clean, Blank hard drive. (most people don't have one of those just laying around)

I have many HD's laying around that have been used for various things including testing of new OS's.
So to prepare a HD for a new OS, I do what I've been doing to HD's for a very long time. (even brand new ones)

I install the test drive as the ONLY HD on the system (my desktop) and I boot up the system with my DOS Utilities CD.
Then I run the old DOS Utility program "FDISK" which I use to delete all the partitions on the HD. It will even delete NTFS and Linux partitions. I let it create just ONE large partition on the drive.

Then I reboot, and run the DOS Format command from the CD. It's not so much the actual Format that I want as it is the fact that the DOS Format routine scours the HD, verifying that every sector is able to reliably hold data. Any bad sectors will be added to the Bad Sector Map on the drive (a permanent part of every hard drive) and will never be used again for data storage.
That precludes installing a new OS on sectors that may fail to reliably hold data.

Once that is done, I can install any OS with the knowledge that the HD will be able to reliably hold the new OS.
And generally speaking, I have none of the problems with testing a new OS that I see written up so often on these forums.

Cheers Mates! Spring is here and summer is just around the corner! Come on RTM!

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The diskpart clean or clean all command is good for wiping a drive too.

 

TechnoMage when you speak of the DOS Utilities CD is that something you created or is that one that you got with hardware.
Years ago I used one but that was in the last century. have tried to use whatever I can find or learn on my system at the time.
I have a touchsmart 23 all in one from HP and 1T hard drive. right now it has about 6 or 7 different areas on the drive.
When ten is released I would sure like to clean this up once and for all.
How can I get the CD? or is it something that can be created from my system
Larry

 

I would also consider Free Partition Manager - AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard

Look here where I posted about it

https://www.tenforums.com/installatio...tml#post195656

I would at least merge the 1023mb partition to your c drive. The choice is yours if you decide to try it. Take your time and review the tutorials AOMEI provides before trying. I did it with no issues.

 

Hi Dude; I am using AOMEI backupper and really like it. I will try to use the partition one. have it on the system and will create a couple of Image backups and give it a try.
Will mark this one resolved.
Larry

 

Dude I just did a snip and everything went fine with the partitions.
there was just one more that perhaps could go. the one marked Other for 128mg.
Larry

 

I hope you got the snip.

 

Leave that one alone, I believe it is your Boot partition. It is a Microsoft Reserved Partition. If you bring up Disk Management it will not be shown.