Windows 10: How do I re-install Windows with or without recovery partition?

A waste? Many times when an HDD fails it takes out all partitions so the waste would be when the personal files/data that exists nowhere else has not been backed up onto or copied onto a different drive. GPARTED can be used to create partitions as desired but the downside is properly choosing which partition is to be used for what purpose.

 

Only for the initial install. Resizing with MiniTool Partition Wizard Free after Windows is installed works very well.

 

For a clean install, you can just use disk management to shrink C drive of course as partitions will be setup nicely.

Really good plan to separate data from OS drive for ease of backup and reinstalls. First thing I do on any PC.

 

If my DATA partition is on the same drive, that's the only partition I leave standing. The rest I just delete and leave the space as unallocated. My laptop and desktop PC have an SSD for the OS and a second drive for my Data. In my laptop its a second SSD, in my desktop its a spinner. It's all backed up anyway to portable media. My wife's laptop is the only PC left here with only the one drive in it.