Thursday, October 11, 2018

windows - Clean install, what partitions can be removed?


When you buy a new PC or laptop it is pre-installed with Windows and a lot of vendor software. I prefer to have a clean environment and do a new Windows installation.


I thought i would find the 0 drive with two partitions: The install partition and the recovery partition. On the 1 drive i thought there would only one partition.


However, I find this:


Picture of partitions


What are the MSR and System partition that are on the 0 drive, and why is there also a recovery partition on the 1 drive?


Is it safe to remove the partitions and just create a Windows and data partition?


Answer



If there is no reason to keep any of the existing data, and you have your own media (don't need the recovery partition), just delete them all.


If you need to keep the recovery partition, it'll be complicated and will likely be dependent on the PC model and patch level.


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