I Accidentally Create Two Unlocated Partition During The Very First Windows 10 Installation (Installation still not finished)

[PCForStreaming]

Hello guys, I have 1 TB M.2 NVME SSD and I just want to split into two partition 350GB for system  and the rest is for data, that's the idea.

I read to click new when it's on the partition step, or choosing the which drive to install the windows on. Originally it was showing only One drive 953.8GB but after I try to click new it resulted in system , MSR(reserved) and primary partition. Anyway I'm trying to do something and I delete the system and the primary, and for some reason now I am left with something like this (picture included). I won't touch it any further since I think I just don't know how to make it better without making it worse.

The goal is to have 2 partition. One is for system 300 or 350GB and the the other would be data and games in a single partition.
 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, PCForStreaming said:

I just want to split into two partition 350GB for system  and the rest is for data, that's the idea.

Why, no reason to do this, just have one big partition

 

Also if you want to do this, just do it faster, leave it as one big partition during install

 

Just install on one big parittion, and delete all teh existing paritions on the drive

 

 

[JogerJ]

Delete everything you did, then install on one partition (single unallocated space block).

After install finishes, you can split the "C:" partition into "D:"

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

Delete all of the partitions until there is only 1 allocated space and then click next.

 

You don't need to create partitions, Windows will do it. AKA don't click new.

[PCForStreaming]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Why, no reason to do this, just have one big partition

 

Also if you want to do this, just do it faster, leave it as one big partition during install

 

Just install on one big parittion, and delete all teh existing paritions on the drive

 

 

I cannot merge that two unallocated space into one. And I don't know what will happen if I delete every of them.
I delete the system before and it become separate unallocated space instead of merging into one unllaocated space.

The reason I want to have 2 partition is to protect data from virus and also for games they usually don't want to be installed on system drive because windows permission is such a hassle.

[PCForStreaming]

Just now, JogerJ said:

Delete everything you did, install on one partition.

After install finishes, you can split the "C:" partition into "D:"

So if I delete everything it will merge into a single partition?
Before I was deleteing the 100MB system and it didn't want to merge with the 950GB primary that I delete as well

and that's why now it separate into 2 unlocated space

[Windows7ge]

On an SSD there really isn't a reason to set it up like this. If it was a HDD this would make a little sense as it was a trick for have a fast & slow storage location on one disk but for an SSD you don't benefit.

 

Why is it that you want to set it up in this fashion?

 

You should be able to delete partition 1&2. This will take you back to having 1 large unallocated space again.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, PCForStreaming said:

I cannot merge that two unallocated space into one. And I don't know what will happen if I delete every of them.
I delete the system before and it become separate unallocated space instead of merging into one unllaocated space.

The reason I want to have 2 partition is to protect data from virus and also for games they usually don't want to be installed on system drive because windows permission is such a hassle.

just delete them all in the install. There is nothing on the drive so you won't lose anything

 

 

Having partitions won't help with a virus, they virus can easily get data from all partitions. Get good backups so you don't lsoe data

 

Games will run fine off the boot drive. That is the default for basically every game, and I have done this on tons of systems with no issues.

[dalekphalm]

3 minutes ago, PCForStreaming said:

I cannot merge that two unallocated space into one. And I don't know what will happen if I delete every of them.
I delete the system before and it become separate unallocated space instead of merging into one unllaocated space.

To merge the two unallocated partitions, you need to delete the partitions in between them.

 

Delete all partitions, then click next.

3 minutes ago, PCForStreaming said:

The reason I want to have 2 partition is to protect data from virus

This is not a thing. Any modern virus that's able to infect one partition can read and write to any partition that is user accessible.

3 minutes ago, PCForStreaming said:

and also for games they usually don't want to be installed on system drive because windows permission is such a hassle.

What? This is also not a thing.

 

Games have no problem living on the C:\ Drive - in fact, that's standard.

 

I feel like you might need some additional education in how systems work. That's not an insult, or even a bad thing. It just shows due to the nature of your justifications for wanting to do this. The good news is that we can help you learn why doing what you want is pretty much pointless.

[PCForStreaming]

Alright guys thank you for all the advice (I will try to delete all partition and then just click next)

I will try it on the morning and see if there's more answer to this thread. I will leave it like this for now.
Thank you for every advice, opinions and help ^^

[JogerJ]

I get the notion to partition drives. Back in the day, if the windows OS is screwed up by some virus or data corruption, you're forced to reformat the whole partition (cure all solution for most of the time), hence people partition their drives to separate system data and personal data. That way only system data would be lost, so you get a fresh install of windows and can then do virus removal on the data partition. Basically people tried to emulate having two drives with a single drive. 

 

This is however no longer much of a concern. In a modern Windows 10 system there are repair tools readily available that can perform system repair/restore. If that doesn't work, you can always use a Windows USB installer to "fix" corrupted system data or even use a live linux USB to backup files to another drive. In my experience Windows has a pretty redundant system backup/restore feature, which is part of the pre-generated partitions you saw during initial install.

 

The only use of partitioning a drive nowadays would either be to install different OS, use different disk formatting (e.g. as an exchange drive that can be accessed by multiple OS) or just to separate personal data so you won't accidentally format them. It won't provide additional virus protection, it won't provide performance boosts with an SSD. 

[PCForStreaming]

6 hours ago, JogerJ said:

I get the notion to partition drives. Back in the day, if the windows OS is screwed up by some virus or data corruption, you're forced to reformat the whole partition (cure all solution for most of the time), hence people partition their drives to separate system data and personal data. That way only system data would be lost, so you get a fresh install of windows and can then do virus removal on the data partition. Basically people tried to emulate having two drives with a single drive. 

 

This is however no longer much of a concern. In a modern Windows 10 system there are repair tools readily available that can perform system repair/restore. If that doesn't work, you can always use a Windows USB installer to "fix" corrupted system data or even use a live linux USB to backup files to another drive. In my experience Windows has a pretty redundant system backup/restore feature, which is part of the pre-generated partitions you saw during initial install.

 

The only use of partitioning a drive nowadays would either be to install different OS, use different disk formatting (e.g. as an exchange drive that can be accessed by multiple OS) or just to separate personal data so you won't accidentally format them. It won't provide additional virus protection, it won't provide performance boosts with an SSD. 

Thank you for the thoughtful reply ^^

 

So if I fix/repair the OS with a Windows installer USB if it ever comes to that, it will it not delete all the other data or apps on that same drive? And if I'm using the windows 10 repair/restore will that takes a lot of space on the drive to create the backup/ restore point?

 

And what are the way that could help to keep M.2 NVME SSD to live longer?

 

Thank you!

[dalekphalm]

6 hours ago, PCForStreaming said:

Thank you for the thoughtful reply ^^

 

So if I fix/repair the OS with a Windows installer USB if it ever comes to that, it will it not delete all the other data or apps on that same drive? And if I'm using the windows 10 repair/restore will that takes a lot of space on the drive to create the backup/ restore point?

 

And what are the way that could help to keep M.2 NVME SSD to live longer?

 

Thank you!

Yes doing a repair install will not wipe the drive. 
 

Don’t worry about the life of your SSD. It’ll last longer than you’ll be using it for. 
 

Furthermore make sure you have a proper backup in place. That is the real way you’ll protect your data.