Ill start with a high level list of events and fill in gaps if need be. Bascially here is the deal.
- I bought an ASUS 15 inch touch screen with windows 8 approx 18 months ago referbed off ebay.
- For the most part it has been running fine since then
- had a situation where i was trying to install some software for my daughter while also doing a million other things.
- computer crashed mid install and wouldnt boot
- over the next couple days, again, while trying to do a million other things, I rushed through every trick Ive ever learned
- Initially, was a bit perplexed since safemode wouldnt boot...ive never seen that.
- Long story short, I tried every possible option windows 8 recover would let me try....repair, reinstall, dos commands for chkdsk, fsc, koppix. Esentially NOTHING would complete.
- Lastly, I created a usb reparid disk from microsoft and tried to reinstall windows 8 and, I think, completely hosed the machine.
I dont really care about saving anything on the machine. I have the Windows 8 reinstall USB up and running and have been able to get to a point where I think I can through the Advanced install and just install windows. Which brings me to my question. Im currently at the "Where do you want to install windows" screen and its showing that I have 7 partitions
here are the types:
1) System
2) Recovery
3) MSR(reserved)
4) Primary
5-7) Recovery
If I want a clean install of Windows 8 from USB,
1) Which partitions should I delete??
2) Which ones should I format??
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
- I bought an ASUS 15 inch touch screen with windows 8 approx 18 months ago referbed off ebay.
- For the most part it has been running fine since then
- had a situation where i was trying to install some software for my daughter while also doing a million other things.
- computer crashed mid install and wouldnt boot
- over the next couple days, again, while trying to do a million other things, I rushed through every trick Ive ever learned
- Initially, was a bit perplexed since safemode wouldnt boot...ive never seen that.
- Long story short, I tried every possible option windows 8 recover would let me try....repair, reinstall, dos commands for chkdsk, fsc, koppix. Esentially NOTHING would complete.
- Lastly, I created a usb reparid disk from microsoft and tried to reinstall windows 8 and, I think, completely hosed the machine.
I dont really care about saving anything on the machine. I have the Windows 8 reinstall USB up and running and have been able to get to a point where I think I can through the Advanced install and just install windows. Which brings me to my question. Im currently at the "Where do you want to install windows" screen and its showing that I have 7 partitions
here are the types:
1) System
2) Recovery
3) MSR(reserved)
4) Primary
5-7) Recovery
If I want a clean install of Windows 8 from USB,
1) Which partitions should I delete??
2) Which ones should I format??
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8