Windows 10: Windows 10 fresh install. Can't delete/clean disk or partitions.

Discus and support Windows 10 fresh install. Can't delete/clean disk or partitions. in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Hi Everyone, As my title says I cannot complete a fresh Windows 10 install from USB using Windows media creation tool. I purchased an NZXT BLD a few... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by HMalone1, Nov 26, 2020.

  1. HMalone1 Win User

    Windows 10 fresh install. Can't delete/clean disk or partitions.


    Hi Everyone,

    As my title says I cannot complete a fresh Windows 10 install from USB using Windows media creation tool. I purchased an NZXT BLD a few months ago and recently received a blue screen crash and of course I didn't write down the error code, because I didn't think this would be an issue. Sure enough, the crash shut my computer down and when it restarted I was automatically in my BIOS. This was the start of my problems.

    In case this helps: I have a B450 Aorus wifi Pro Motherboard. 1TB m.2 TeamGroup SSD. 2 x 8GB sticks of tforce Vulcan 3200 MHz RAM. Gigabyte 2070S wind force. I do not have a hard drive or anything like that.

    In BIOS I clicked 'save and exit' to see if I could make it back to the windows screen. I was looped back into BIOS after the restart. I tried loading my last good setting in BIOS and the same issue, looped back. I then decided to create a USB drive with the Windows media creation tool installed on it and sure enough, I was able to boot using my thumb drive.

    Enter stage 2.

    I am now in the Windows installation screen. I made it all the way to Windows Setup and I was asked where I want to install Windows. This is my major hang up now. I have 4 partitions under Drive 0. Partitions 1 and 2 are listed as System and MSR reserved, respectively. Partitions 3 and 4 are listed as Primary and Recovery. Partition looks like it would be my SSD since there is 503 GB left on it so I click 'Delete' and I receive the following error: "we couldn't delete the selected partition. Error: 0x80070001. So I think to try to delete the recovery partition, but the same error message pops up. Partitions 1 and 2 have their "Delete" button greyed out, so I cannot even delete those. I also clicked the "Next" button to install on partition 3, but I receive another error message.

    I will provide pictures below for the folks who are better with visuals.

    Next - I used Shift + F10 to enter commands.

    I have used the following commands:


    1. diskpart, list disk, sel dis 0, clean, and then I receive this message " DiskPart has encountered an error: Incorrect Function."


    2. diskpart, list part, select part 3 my Primary, Delete part and received this message: " DiskPart has encountered an error: Incorrect Function." So I tried delete part override and received the same message.


    3. list volume, select disk 0, clean, received the same error message I have been getting.

    I then thought maybe my M.2 is messed up or something and typed in det dis and it populated and said that it was healthy.

    Enough with the commands, I thought, so I tried the windows advanced options.

    I tried Startup Repair and System Restore, both unsuccessful. Right about now I am considering buying a new M.2 just to get the installation over with, but I think that's pretty wasteful.



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    :)
     
    HMalone1, Nov 26, 2020
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  2. RejZoR Win User

    Windows 10 clean install mess up partitions?

    No. I have such setup since Windows XP and it works great. 50GB chuck of drive is reserved for system partition and data partition is the remaining disk size. When installing new OS, I just delete the first partition, recreate new one and install OS. System is installed clean each time and all the existing data remains where it was, on the secondary data partition. This way you can change systems in matter of hours without any fiddling with your stored data.
     
    RejZoR, Nov 26, 2020
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  3. W1zzard Win User
    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
     
    W1zzard, Nov 26, 2020
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  4. Windows 10 fresh install. Can't delete/clean disk or partitions.

    Windows 10 clean install mess up partitions?

    If I do a clean install of Windows 10, will it mess up the partitions I have on my 2TB drive?
     
    MxPhenom 216, Nov 26, 2020
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