Windows 10: I'm reinstalling Windows 10 on my HP laptop and accidently deleted my "Drive 0 Partition 2...

I'm reinstalling Windows 10 on my HP laptop and accidently deleted my "Drive 0 Partition 2 "Primary"". It now says "Drive 0 Unallocated Space 697.3 GB Total Size and 697.3 GB Free and "Type" is empty". When I click on "New", it tells me "We couldn't create a new partition. [Error: 0xabe774a0]." How can I get it back? I'm cross posting this question in the HP Support Community as well. I will update here if I get an answer from them first and vise versa.

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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

 

to delete drive partitions for clean installation?

Hi, I'm Anvar, I'd be glad to help you today on this

Click on the Custom: Install Windows only (Advanced) option clean install windows on the drive , which will get rid of bitlocker encryption as below steps remove all data on the disk

Select the partition with the current installation (usually "Drive 0"), and click the Delete button.

Quick tip: If "Drive 0" has multiple partitions, you have to select and delete each of the partitions to allow the setup to use the entire drive for the new clean installation. Windows 10 will create the required partitions automatically during the process. It's not necessary to delete the partitions on secondary drives.

Click the Yes button.

Select the empty drive (Drive 0 Unallocated Space).

Click the Next button.

Once you complete the steps, the setup will proceed with the fresh installation of Windows 10 on the device.

Hope this helps.

 

System Reserved Partition on Disk 1 not Disk 0

The results were the same as before: Windows is installed in a single 477 GB partition on Disk 0 and the System Reserved is in a 500 MB partition on Drive 1. The rest of Drive 1 is unallocated. This is identical to the configuration I had when I asked the
question.

The Media Creation Tool used to created the install ISO DVD is v. 10.0.14393 downloaded on 12/13/2016.

I followed your instructions:

• I selected Drive 0 and deleted the existing Windows partition.
• I clicked New and Apply. Windows then formatted Drive 0 as a single primary partition.
• The existing System Reserved partition was still on Drive 1.
• So I deleted the System Reserved partition on Drive 1 and the just created Primary partition on Drive 0
• I then selected Drive 0 and clicked New and Apply again. Same result a single Primary partition on Drive 0. Drive 1 was left unallocated.
• Upon completion of the install
  • Windows occupies about 15 GB in the only partition on Drive 0
  • The 500 MB System Reserved partition was placed on Drive 1
  • The rest of Drive 1 is unallocated.

How can I get the System Reserved partition to be placed as the Partition 1 on Drive 0 with Windows installed in Partition 2?

Thanks.

Bill