What can I delete?

[Slottr]

I'm installing windows on an older machine and I've found a whole bunch of partitions.. I'm not sure what I should delete.. Help!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Delete them all. You want to get rid of all the old partitions. This will remove all files.

[GreezyJeezy]

all of them, youll need to for it to left you install it.

 

but this delete all the files so back up what you want saved before you do 

[iamdarkyoshi]

Remove every physical drive you want to keep data on. Leave the one drive you plan to use for the OS. Delete all partitions until you have one line saying unallocated space. Install to that one.

after the install, put the other drive(s) back in. Windows is weird when installing, best install with only one drive present and add others later

[bgibbz]

2 minutes ago, Slottr said:

I'm installing windows on an older machine and I've found a whole bunch of partitions.. I'm not sure what I should delete.. Help!

Do you care about the files in this drive? If you don't, use diskpart to erase the whole drive. To do this, open cmd prompt, type diskpart, the. Type list, then type select ___ , then type list, make sure desired drive is selected, then type clean. 

[Skiiwee29]

If your fresh installing on 1 disk, then delete them all and let it start brand new. 

 

Drive 1 looks to be a secondary 1tb drive. If your installing on Drive 0, delete it all unless you are using a raid 0 setup since they are both 1tb drives. 

[Slottr]

Alright thanks everyone! I should really start to research hard drives and disc space types of things..

[Mira Yurizaki]

As a heads up, when you install Windows on a "fresh" drive, the installer will create two partitions. This is normal.

 

Also the drives are numbered in the order of what SATA ports they're on from when first detected. So if you have drives plugged into SATA_2 and SATA_4 for example, they will be Drive 0 and Drive 1 respectively. (At least I hope that's how it works, I just unplug all but the drive I want to install Windows on to be safe)