Couple of days a go I purchased a HP H9 1120A with Windows 7 Pre installed. The reason for choosing this PC was due to its high end CPU & 120 GB SSD Drive.
I went through the upgrade process and and installed the Windows 8 (I also made a USB media back up of tehh Win 8 install files). All went ahead without a hitch.
When I went in to check the drive I realised there was only 30 GB of free space left on the SSD drive. HP partitioned 30GB for Win7 receovery and the rest is full HP bloatware I do not need & the Windows 8 install files.
I would like to start again and clean up as much space as possible on the SSD drive.
The first step is to move the Win7 recovery to a new non SSD partition and recover the 30 GB space into the c: drive.
The next step is to do a clean install of the Win8, without any of the HP bloatware. My question is how do I go about doing this? If I format the drive and start again I assume my upgrade product key will not activate.
Any comments.
Thanking you in advance.
Cheers,
Cumar.
I went through the upgrade process and and installed the Windows 8 (I also made a USB media back up of tehh Win 8 install files). All went ahead without a hitch.
When I went in to check the drive I realised there was only 30 GB of free space left on the SSD drive. HP partitioned 30GB for Win7 receovery and the rest is full HP bloatware I do not need & the Windows 8 install files.
I would like to start again and clean up as much space as possible on the SSD drive.
The first step is to move the Win7 recovery to a new non SSD partition and recover the 30 GB space into the c: drive.
The next step is to do a clean install of the Win8, without any of the HP bloatware. My question is how do I go about doing this? If I format the drive and start again I assume my upgrade product key will not activate.
Any comments.
Thanking you in advance.
Cheers,
Cumar.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windos 8
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP
- CPU
- i& - 3770
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVidia GTX 580