Mar 16,  · Step 4. Now, you can find a piece of unallocated space is created. Right-click on the C drive and select “Merge Partitions”. Step 5. Tick off the unallocated space and hit “OK”. Step 6. After returning to the main interface, click on “Apply” on the upper left to start the system drive extension. Hi everyone, excuse my ignorance as I’m not exactly tech savvy. I’m wanting to do a clean install of Windows I’m curious as to why my laptop has so many partitions, and what is okay to delete during the install. Mar 02,  · Check Windows 10 activation. Open Settings. Click on Update & Security. Click on Activation. Under the “Windows” section, confirm the activation. If the computer has been properly activated, you’ll see one of these messages: Windows is activated with a digital license: The installation has been.
 
 

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I tried to copy an image of the source C: drive to the target C: drive and ran into issues and, I think, in the process messed up the source drive partition table.

So I tried to do a clean install of Windows 10 on the target C: drive. Was prompted to select where to install it and found the disk partitions somewhat confusing. There are some OEM partitions that I am not sure how to install them.

Have a DVD for the motherboard of the target computer. Question: How to clean up and install the partitions on the system SSD drive including the essential OEM information and where to install a fresh copy of Windows 10? Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn’t help. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 10 Search Community member. Hello Two desktop computers each running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit.

Attached is screen shot from disk management. I would like to start the target C: drive from scratch. No user data or programs are present on the target system SSD drive. Very much appreciate information about what is going on in general. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi Johnes. The mess you have there – with the actual EFI System partition which boots Windows deleted and another one created at the right end of the drive – is the reason why a Clean Install is defined as “clean” by deleting all partitions off the drive until there is only Unallocated Space.

Then choose the Unallocated space and click Next to let it auto-create and -format the needed partitions and begin install. Then unplug the second SSD so it cannot interfere. I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and keep me posted. If you will wait to rate my post, I will keep working with you until it’s resolved.

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› Software Apps › Windows Select the partition with the current installation (usually “Drive 0”) and click the Delete tip: If “Drive 0” has multiple.