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Windows 7 Clean Reinstallation gone wrong. Urgent help needed, please.
Hello!
So I'd gotten my PC built a year ago. I have two hard drives; one's an SSD for the OS, another is a WD Black Caviar for storage purpose only. My PC had recently gotten quite slow so I decided to do a clean reinstallation (reformatting my storage hard drive as well, just to be on the safe side). Though, I thought I'd deal with the SSD first, and reformat my 2TB storage hard drive later, once the OS would be reinstalled.
When I was on the installation screen, here's what it said:
Disk 0 Partition 1: 2TB
Disk 1 Partition 1: System Reserved
Disk 1 Partition 2: System
I deleted the Disk 1 Partition 1: System Reserved and Disk 1 Partition 2: System and proceeded to install Windows 7 on it. It however went wrong. This is what it looks like now:
The System Reserved partition is gone. And after I tried installing drives for my graphic and etc, my storage hard drive got these files installed on it which I do not know of:
Where did I go wrong? I have all my files backed up, so I can reformat my storage hard drive if need be.
When on the installation screen, should I delete all partitions, including my storage drive? And install the OS on my SSD first, then reformat my storage hard drive on the installation screen once that's done, just so no files are accidentally installed on the storage hard drive?
I've done clean installations before and have had no problem, not sure what's going on here. Why does the 2TB hard drive show as "System, Active, Primary Partition"? Shouldn't it simply say "Primary Partition" if it's for storage and has no OS files on it?
Help would be greatly appreciated, would save me from having to carry it all the way to the guy's shop who got this PC built for me and spending extra money for a clean reinstallation. Thanking you very much for your time!