Windows 10: Can I safely remove every partition on my hard disk drive and clean install windows 10?

This is what I think I should do:

1. Wipe all partitions I can from diskpart and disk management.

2. Boot from windows 10 installation usb

3. Wipe every partition from there then clean install.


Screenshot of the partitions (volumes) on my disk:


Vol 0 = rw dvd drive I have installed in my computer

Vol 1 = Some windows recovery drive or somethin. When windows 10 installed i'm pretty sure it creates another copy of this so yeah

Vol 2 = Partition that windows 10 is installed in currently.

Vol 3 = ext4 linux partition.

Vol 4 = OEM Recovery. I've heard that deleting this then going into windows makes it unable to factory reset the computer. Not going to need that anyways.

Vol 5 = Boot EFI Partition. the partition that has all the boot loaders installed like the windows boot manager, grub2. This would make my computer unbootable, so i can only boot from a cd or usb.

Vol 6 = USB (duh)


Am I correct about this? Kind of worried about deleting oem recovery and the boot efi one so I'm asking so I don't mess up my pc. Thank you


EDIT: Oh, and also, this wouldn't remove my windows 10 license so I would have to activate it again right? "Windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account". So I'd just sign into my ms account and it would auto-activate windows?

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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Windows 10 clean install mess up partitions?

If I do a clean install of Windows 10, will it mess up the partitions I have on my 2TB drive?

 

2 of my internal hard drives, not been reconized!!

Try using diskpart to convert one of the drives to basic disk

Code: diskpart list disk (verify this with disk manager to make sure the drive numbers haven't changed. The two disks you are trying to clean should have a * in the Dyn column) select disk # (#= the disk number) convert basic clean create partition primary select part 1 format fs=ntfs quick[/quote]