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WIN10 DELETE and setting up INTERNAL SSD drive for Win 7 and Linux
Hi everyone... firstly I would like to thank this forum for helping me to keep my prior laptop (win 7) alive for over 12 years without a even a re-install !!!!!
Here is my new situation:
I just bought a new HP laptop that came with WIN 10 (home edition). I want to COMPLETELY wipe the SSD drive of all traces of WIN 10 for 2 reasons:
1) win 10 keeps dropping my super strong wifi connection (known issue with Win 10) I have spent weeks trying to fix it to no avail so.....goodbye win 10. If anyone has a solution, I don't care and please don't offer any suggestions.....win 10 is gone...PERIOD !! Another reason is #2
2) win10 home edition does not allow a person to manage windows "bug ridden" Updates. No more of the old.... Let 'em download but CHOOSE to install. No more of the Tuesday patch and wait a week or 2 to see to see if they are problematic or not....WIN 10 home edition "forces" them on you!
I have also tried all workarounds for this to no avail, so PLEASE, again....not interested...Win 10 is gone!
Sorry for the Ranting....but just wanted to make this clear as a bell. Now onto the matter at hand...
Here is what I want to do and need a little help with:
#1) I want to COMPLETELY wipe my SSD (which currently has 3 partitions..volumes ????). They are:
1)260 mb which states "Healthy... EFI system"
2) C: 232.72 GB which states "Healthy,Boot, Page, File,Crash dump, Primary partition"
3) 476 mb which states "Healthy (recovery partition"
**note** I want all this stuff gone.
#2) Set up empty SSD drive for both WIN 7 and Linux "CHALET". (Dual boot) I loved Win 7 but want to eventually break ALL ties with Microsoft. There is going to be a small learning curve for "Chalet" so I want to be able to use good ol' WIN 7 meanwhile...
I want to do all this as simply/easy as possible. I would research all this myself but to tell the truth...I am burned out from trying to fix that ugly duckling WIN 10. I do know the steps involved to format the drive through win 10 "disk management" so that may save any potential Helpers some time/typing. I am relativeity sure of the steps involved to delete but not confident enough on the other stuff. If you want to include a step by step guide concerning deletion....that is fine and much thanks. Here (through my somewhat limited research) is what i know/have done, so far...
a)I have already put everthing I want to keep on a USB stick.
b)I have another USB stick with win 7 on it and have already used it on my old laptop before giving it to my Grand daughter. Nice fresh install...... so I know it works. Got the .iso from MS and found my Product Key.... which I still have.
c)Downloaded ...MiniTool Partition Wizard (Free) AFAIK, this tool may help simplify things. If you advise using a different "free" tool...please let me know.
d) a little confused on Basic vs. Dynamic thing but have discovered this..."Basic disks support multi-boot configurations, meaning you can easily select between multiple operating systems on a computer." So in my situation "basic" seems the wat to go, as, I gathered that Dynamic Disk does not support this function. Again..as with anything on this page, PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong... :)
e) MBR and GPT= I don't believe I have these on this computer but wanna cover all bases...
Here are my computer specs:
HP laptop model 15t-dy100
Intel Core i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz
SSD drive=244 GB (Interface Type SCSI, 3 partitions, Fixed hard disk media)
OS=Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
Bios= BIOS Manufacturer AMI, BIOS Caption F.09, (ACPI, USB Legacy,Smart Battery, EDD (Enhanced Disk Drive) is supported.
Memory= 12 GB (DDR 4 , I think)
Thanx to all in advance !!!!! :)
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