I need to reinstall Win 7 Starter on my Acer netbook. I prepared a USB stick with the installation, and I want to wipe out all the junk on the hard drive and start from scratch.
I definitely want to get rid of McAfee.
Can I wipe out everything, including OEM partition and SYSTEM RESERVED partition?
What do I need to do to accomplish that?
I am assuming I have to install in safe mode, correct?
Answer
To delete OEM partions
1) hit the start and R buttons at the
same time and you will get the run
window
2) type diskpart and press enter
3) type list disk and press enter
4) select the main disk(usually the
largest one)...so if your main disk is
disk 0, type "select disk 0"
5) Once the disk is selected, type
"list partition" and hit enter
6) Your "hidden" paritition will be
around 4400MB to about 5000MB. In my
case it was partition 1.
7) type "select partition 1" and hit
enter
8) type "delete partition 1 override"
and hit enter
You can then do whatever you want with
this space, you can turn it into
another primary parition, you can use
acronis and merge partitions, etc
The disk and partition numbers
I used were for my system, please be
careful as the info on your system
could differ.
Resource from here
If you just want to uninstall pre-installed softwares then use Revo Uninstaller or this Total Uninstaller
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