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Can I safely remove existing partitions before installing Windows 7
Hi
I was going through the instructions on TweakHound for a clean install of Windows 7.
1 - Boot up from the Windows 7 installation disc.
2 - Choose Repair your computer.
3 - In the System Recovery Options screen, choose Use recovery tools... and click Next.
4 - Open the Command Prompt.
5 - Type diskpart and hit Enter.
6 - Type list disk . Find the disk you wish to install Windows 7 on. If you only have one disk then it will show as disk 0. If you have multiple disks find the drive you wish to install 7 on.
7 - Type select disk 0 (or use the number of the disk you wish to install Windows 7 on)(note - that is a zero)
8 - Type list partition. There shouldn't be any.
9 - Type create partition primary.
10- Type select partition 1.
11- Type active.
12- Type format quick.
13- When finished reboot and begin your installation.
I got to step 8 and when I did a "list partition" there are 4 partitions on my machine.
Partition 1 - OEM 47MB
Partition 2 - Primary 51GB
Partition 3 - Primary 17GB
Partition 4 - Primary 4753MB
Where do I go from here? Do I use the current configuration? Delete partitions (if I do that how do I do that?) Which partitions to keep?
Thank you!
Paula