I thought you were trying to run off the recovery discs?
No , it won't automatically be deleted.
You can delete it and repartition during the installation process.
When you see the screen showing partitions asking where you want to install, select Drive Options (advanced).
Unless that is a weird partition type, you can delete it and repartition there.
Yes , I know - posts 22 & 23 looked like he was trying to run off the oem recovery discs as well
OK, I just plunged on in and I see where it's giving me a chance to delete everything off the recovery drive, it appears...
I'm doing a "clean all" on the drive that was the biggest...
On second thought, perhaps I should be doing that on the smallest-sized drive, since that's more likely the recovery drive that's filled up?
I'll select the other disk when it's finished with this one and do a "clean all" on that one, too...
OP started with x64, went & get x32.
I hope the OP made the drivers disk.
Crap, SIW... somehow I missed your post #21 in this thread...
You're absolutely correct: I would have preferred to keep the correct install and merely delete the incorrectly installed version off the recovery disk -- but I couldn't figure out how to do that.
When I tried following your directions I linked to in the beginning of this thread, the option of "delete" was grayed out...
Did you not read the warning, "Clean all" WILL DO THE WHOLE DRIVE automatically.
Warning
Do not do this to any SSD or HDD that has data on it you don't want to lose, the first thing this does is to mark the drive as "Unallocated Space" and then writes zeroes ( 0's ) to the entire drive, it's known as a "Secure Erase" and it will make data un-recoverable, it cannot be done to just a single partition on a drive, it will do the whole drive.
You have been warned!
You can't delete the default boot menu entry. You also can't delete the system partition
You could have made another partition system ( e.g D ), You wouldn'thave a boot menu entry for the installation C after that.
You would then be able to delete C.
That would have left you with the installation on D, which is the 64 bit one , is it not?
As BFK pointed out - if you want the 32 bit - you have no alternative except to reinstall it.
Where are you up to now with all this?
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