Windows 10: How do I reinstall win 10 1803 home; I have C: drive, and Windows/Lenovo recovery on D:...

Forget my last 6 months of frustration; maybe rootkit, maybe corruption.


6 month old new Lenovo ideapad 320**; 7th If, 16GB, 1 Tb HD partitioned: C: and D: (Backuup Lenovo Drivers, software, and Backup Win 10 1709). The computer is functional; but many things do not work: Offline scan, Refresh...many things do not work correctly, browser bookmarks, cookie handling, etc.


I am not an idiot. I have tried every 'half measure'. I do want to do this painlessly...properly, one time only. I can not afford to have this machine down more than a half-day.

I want to do the following and FORMAT the C: Partition in the process. I have no windows disk, as it is factory installation.


How do I reinstall win 10 1803 home; I have C: drive, and Windows/Lenovo recovery on D: partition, from the factory?


Please make simple and accurate for current win 10 1803 home.


Thanks in advance; this should have been done 6 months ago.

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No C: but D: drive has all the data

Hi Austin,

To help you with your concern regarding the data on the drive C:, you're seeing the drive "C:" as the drive "D:" because you're booting your computer outside Windows. When booting your computer outside Windows, the system is reading the recovery partition
as drive C: and the data in the drive C: \ are listed on the drive D: \. Try to boot your computer and try to check again the data in the drive C: \ and see if the data are listed.

Regards.

 

Win 10 Parallel Installation - Win 8.1 in C: Drive & Win 10 in D: Drive

You can do this but it is a little trickier. Here is my advice:

• If I understand correctly, you have 2 partitions at this moment: a drive C were your current windows resides and a drive D, probably with your files (this is also my setup)
• The first step will be to create a partition for Windows 10 (cut part of drive D). You can do this in disk manager. If you don't know how, please ask and I will give you the details
• Create a system image of your current Windows
• Upgrade your current Windows to Windows 10 (you cannot skip this part if you want the free upgrade)
• Restore your previous Windows to it's current location (partition)
• Do a clean install of Windows 10 in the partition you reserved in step 2

Windows 10 will see that you have another windows installation and add it to the boot manager. At this point you will be able to boot both Windows versions

 

Reinstall Windows 10 to new hard drive

Hi Rodolpho,

We want to know about the issue you're having with your recovery drive. Please answer the questions below:

• Are you trying to reinstall Windows 8 or Windows 10?
• If you already upgraded to Windows 10, were you able to create a new copy of the recovery drive?

We suggest creating a new copy of the recovery drive and then follow the steps provided by Andre Da Costa above this thread.

Update us with the outcome so we can assist you further.