Windows 10: Two MBR and System partitions with one Windows partition

After a few instances of the blue screen of death with "critical process died" I decided to do a clean install Windows 10. Made a recovery USB and a clone of my SSD first. Did a clean install of Windows from within window, but the process froze at 26% and later jumped to 100% with a failure announcement. I then tried the recovery USB which screwed up my SSD blue screen during restart. Anyway, after swapping out the SSD for its clone numerous times I am now back to where I started. However I now have this. Can I delete partition 3 & 4? Or 1 & 2? or will this screw the disk again? Tha

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clone MBR HD to bootable GPT partition?

Hi,

1. You cannot convert mbr to gpt without data loss. otherwise, you can follow directions here:

FROM WINDOWS RECOVERY CONSOLE:

To change a master boot record disk into a GUID partition table disk using a command line

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  Back up or move the data on the basic master boot record (MBR) disk you want to convert into a GUID partition table (GPT) disk.
  
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  Open an elevated command prompt (right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator) and type diskpart. If the disk does not contain any partitions or volumes, skip to step 6.
  
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  At the DISKPART prompt, type list disk. Make note of the disk number you want to convert.
  
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  At the DISKPART prompt, type select disk <disknumber>.
  
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  At the DISKPART prompt, type clean.
  

2. I'd suggest converting your vista drive to a virtual machine, load that up on your windows 10 system and use a program like virtualbox to run it.

 

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

 

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