Windows 7 installed on recovery

I'll leave you with this, I suggest you completely wipe the entire Hard Disk Drive and start over with a clean install of Windows 7; have a thorough look through this information below.


After you have copied out or made back-ups of the data you need to save to external media, use Step One of this tutorial at the first link below to do a wipe (secure erase) to the entire Hard Disk Drive / Solid State Drive.

• Then if you do not want to create the new Windows 7 "System Reserved" partition use the outline in Step Two #2 to create, format and mark Active a single 100GB partition to do the installation to.
• If you do want to create the "System Reserved" partition use the outline in Step Two #3 to create, format and mark Active the System Reserved partition and then create and format the 100GB partition to do the installation to.

Either way, running the "clean all" then creating and formatting the partition(s) using diskpart will get you the best possible space to do a clean install of Windows 7 to; you can always extend the Windows partition to include the remaining unallocated space on the HDD / SSD or create additional Primary partitions or an Extended partition after the installation completes if you choose.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

DISKPART : At PC Startup

Do a Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version

Hello again, you're welcome; good to see you got it running and thanks for the update.

theog said:

Bare Foot Kid said:

SIW2 said:

Hiya BFK - have fun with this one.:)

Hello SIW, I'm on my way to bed for the night and it's Greg's turn!

No time for bed, you need to post 27/7 Ted:):)