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Installed twice & plan on 3rd time this week, can anything go wrong?
I did a clean install on a new HDD of Windows 7 a few days ago, but found out I accidentally installed a 32-bit OS.
I did a complete re-installed with a 64-bit OS disc, but had a hard time with updating a driver & downloaded a buch of 3rd party crap to get it to work.
Now I know the problem, I want to do another clean install to remove all that crap & start fresh.
When I originally installed windows on the new HDD, it just showed one partition for the 750GB unallocated drive.
After the second time I re-installed Windows 7, it showed two partitions, a 100MB & a 750GB one.
I tried deleting the 100MB partition, but it wouldn't let me. I just formatted the 750GB partition & went ahead.
Can I get rid of that 100MB partition on setup for Windows 7 so it can be like it was originally?
The other thing I noticed, when updating Windows 7 the first time, there were 152 updates to install.
The 2nd time I installed Windows 7, there were only 118 updates to install.
Is there something fishy about this?
I also activated my product key the first time, will that make me lose the number of uses it allows to activate???