win 10 clean install question

[boing]

I'm doing a clean install on a laptop which currently has win 7 on it, it obviously has a drive partition 1 (system reserved) and partition 2. Should I delete these and format before installing?

 

[OlyAR15]

It never hurts to delete all partitions and let the OS re-create what it needs. Especially if you are going from legacy to UEFI. Obviously you need to backup your data first.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Especially if you are going from legacy to UEFI.

If that's the case, be aware you need to convert the disk from MBR to GPT manually. The Windows installer can't do this for some odd reason.

 

[JackMDS]

In many cases it is much easier to use this free App for the above purpose.

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

 

[OlyAR15]

If that's the case, be aware you need to convert the disk from MBR to GPT manually. The Windows installer can't do this for some odd reason.

That wasn't my experience when I did it. I just had to delete all the partitions on my drive and the installer was able to convert without issues.

 

[Puffnstuff]

When you are doing a clean install it's always best do delete all existing partitions on the drive and then let the installer allocate the available space.

 

[FrankRamiro]

I'm doing a clean install on a laptop which currently has win 7 on it, it obviously has a drive partition 1 (system reserved) and partition 2. Should I delete these and format before installing?

If you have win 7 you can upgrade to win 10 for free and then do a clean install
cause the upgrade version will not work right,

 

[JackMDS]

If you have win 7 you can upgrade to win 10 for free and then do a clean install
cause the upgrade version will not work right,

I guess I am a lucky man, I did more than 20 in=place Upgrades ( both the Home Version and the Pro version) and they all work very well.

 

[ArisVer]

I have also done a flawless W8.1 > W10 upgrade. If it went south I would go with a clean install. But since the option was there I decided to give that a try and it worked.

 

[boing]

OK, thanks everyone, I deleted the partitions and formatted the disk, Win 10 took care of everything automatically. The reason I did a clean install instead of an upgrade was that I recently re-installed Win 7 and hadn't got around to putting most of my software back on so it's minimal hassle to start from scratch again.

I've only played with Win 10 briefly but it 'seems' to be working fine.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Don't forget that if you don't like the start menu you can always add classic shell and customize it to your liking.

 

[boing]

I need to learn how it's supposed to work first then I'm going to give it a fair chance. It's a bit jarring after 17 years of OS consistency but I don't want to reject it for the wrong reasons.

Calling everything an app is confusing me though, is that their term for all programs now or is an app still something designed for the mobile platforms?

 

[rockfella79]

I don't think that is required in 10. Works great at default.

Don't forget that if you don't like the start menu you can always add classic shell and customize it to your liking.

 

[Dahak]

Calling everything an app is confusing me though, is that their term for all programs now or is an app still something designed for the mobile platforms?

Generally anything from the store is usually referenced as an app, and the desktop programs are usually refereed to as Win32 or desktop apps.

But you will get people using app for both

I try to say App for the windows store apps or mobile apps, and programs for the normal desktop programs but i even sometimes use app now for both

 

[Insert_Nickname]

That wasn't my experience when I did it. I just had to delete all the partitions on my drive and the installer was able to convert without issues.

The 10 installer might have changed things. Last time I had to fiddle with this was with 7.

Are you sure you have booted in UEFI mode? Some UEFI/BIOS can be a bit vague on that.

 

[tidy]

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[Insert_Nickname]

I know that the 7 installer can do it from a clean state (after Diskpart "clean"). You don't have to convert mbr/convert gpt in that case as it will choose the appropriate one.

Correct, but you can't change a disk already partitioned with one of them. It has to be clean state, before partitioning.