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  • Darksun
    Darksun Posts: 1,931 Forumite
    Assuming you don't want to keep anything, select delete on all the partitions. Then you can create a single new NTFS partition that takes up the whole drive, and install Windows on that.
  • diggerman123
    diggerman123 Posts: 367 Forumite
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    thanks darksun , your help is much appreciated.
    on the case now
    we all have bad days , some more than others ..................
  • alanrowell
    alanrowell Posts: 5,390 Forumite
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    Darksun wrote: »
    Assuming you don't want to keep anything, select delete on all the partitions. Then you can create a single new NTFS partition that takes up the whole drive, and install Windows on that.
    Even today it's better to split the disk into logical drives - one for the programs, one for the data - so that if OP ever has to do this again they don't lose all their data

    I'd suggest a 25GB C drive for Windows and other programs with a D drive taking up the rest of the disk
  • Darksun
    Darksun Posts: 1,931 Forumite
    alanrowell wrote: »
    Even today it's better to split the disk into logical drives - one for the programs, one for the data - so that if OP ever has to do this again they don't lose all their data

    I'd suggest a 25GB C drive for Windows and other programs with a D drive taking up the rest of the disk

    Well, I did think about suggesting that, but didn't want to confuse matters too much
  • just to update
    jobs a good un
    many thanks all , especially darksun !
    we all have bad days , some more than others ..................
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