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Any advice on Windows 7 clean install?
My laptop is running very slow and I cant figure out why. Im not a genius on computers but I have a Dell Latitude D530 and Windows 7. I have 3 partitions on my Hard Drive:
(1) OEM Partition (Healthy) (86MB)
(2) Systems Reserved (System, Active, Primary Partition) (100MB NTFS ; Healthy)
(3) (C:) (Boot, Page Dump, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) (74.35GB NTFS ; Healthy)
I did a Clean-Install of Windows 7 a month and a half ago and wiped out everything, and it still did not really help the speed. I deleted/cleared the big 75GB (C:) partition, and left the other 2 partitions because I was afraid to delete anything else. I have run virus scans/malware.
I am about to clean install windows again and start fresh again, but is there something I should do to the other partitions as well? I feel like there may be a bug or something on one of them since its acting so slow..could this be a possibility? I just need to know if it is okay to delete these other 2 partitions and just start fresh with a new, single partition. Any help and steps to diagnose this would be greatly appreciated everyone! Thank you