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Windows partitioning on installation

Yttrizy
By Yttrizy
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So i got a new system, had old flash drive that had win10 on it, installed on my new build, and couldnt upgrade to windows 10 because it had no internet. My motherboard manual says wifi only works on win11, so i got usb upgraded to win11 booting, and now i am in installation window seeing all these partitions, do i just delete them all? I cant delete the unallocated space ones

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That is a VERY weirdly partitioned drive. Normally Windows makes a recovery partition and a backup boot sector. 
If you're upgrading from win 10, you will need to keep that primary partition. If you're just clean installing win11, you should nuke the primary which will leave you with one unallocated partition

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2 hours ago, OddOod said:

That is a VERY weirdly partitioned drive.

Nope, absolutely standard for Windows. EFI partition, main one, then recovery at the end. 

 

2 hours ago, Yttrizy said:

and now i am in installation window seeing all these partitions, do i just delete them all? I cant delete the unallocated space ones

The first and last were already deleted, so if you have nothing to keep delete the middle one, then you'll just have one unallocated segment and click next.

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2 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Nope, absolutely standard for Windows. EFI partition, main one, then recovery at the end. 

 

I thought that they were usually labelled as ..

2 hours ago, Kilrah said:

The first and last were already deleted

Oh, fair

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