Windows 10: Partitions when reinstalling

Helping a friend,Gone through all the repair and scans, having to re-install windows.When I go to partitions there seems to be about 6?The one I picked right or wrong and it warned me was the primary petition.One is a recovery, or 2.Can the others be cleaned off. Why so many?thanks Bruce

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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

 

instalation problem and reinstaled system dlete partition

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft community forum.



I appreciate your time and efforts in troubleshooting. Please note that once you install Windows, you will have some extra partitions than what you can see. These partitions are usually system reserved and may not appear in File Explorer. You will
have an extra partition called recovery partition if the Windows is installed by OEM of the computer. Here is some information on types of the partitions:

1. Hard drives and partitions.
   
2. UEFI/GPT-based hard drive partitions.
   

As you mentioned that you deleted all the partitions, you will have a new partition named as unallocated space. It is not allocated space, you will need to select this partition and then click on New to create a new partition. Once a new partition
(primary) is created, select the partition and then install Windows on it. Here is some information to help you with installation:
How to Clean Install Windows 10 on a PC Step-by-Step
Guide.



Regards,

 

Help! Data partition not showing under my computer

This is happening on a windows 2000 server. Our second partition of the system, for data is not showing under my computer. Here are the properties of it in disk management:





Now under logical drives its listed as F and shows free space available.

Suggestions on how to fix this?