I purchased a Dell Inspiron laptop a year ago. It was loaded with Win 8.1, and I planned to upgrade to Win 10, which I did last month. At the same time I verified that Microsoft had successfully recognized my product key and authorized the upgrade. I downloaded an ISO version of Win 10, with the intention of doing a clean install of Win 10 to remove any vestiges of Win 8.1 and any remaining bloatware.
Last weekend, I attempted to do the clean install of Win 10, and everything went well until I reached the point that I had to specify into which of my 6 partitions on my hard drive I wanted to install the new OS. I had researched this question, and I had decided to keep all of the partitions, since they were rather small (they totaled up to less than 1% of my total 1TB hard drive), and they represented potential means for some type of emergency back-up, restore, etc. that could prove very convenient under some future circumstances. So I selected the partition that had virtually all of the capacity, and was designated OS.
At that point I was surprised to see this message: "Selected disk is of the GPT partition style." It wouldn't let me install the new OS in that partition. I went online on another PC, and I learned that there are only 2 ways I could install the OS on that hard drive. First, I could delete all of the existing partitions and install the OS into the single remaining partition. But I didn't want to lose those partitions, as I mentioned above, and I also didn't want to lose any possible benefits to having the GPT partition. Second, I could further partition that large OS partition into a total of 2, and command the system to put most of the disk capacity in the new partition. But I was concerned about that, too, because I didn't know how much capacity to leave with the existing GPT partition.
So I am writing to find out if there is a more satisfying way for me to identify or create a large partition onto which I could successfully load the new Win 10 ISO OS without affecting anything else.
Any suggestions?
Thank you very much!
Laserguy
Dell Inspiron Laptop, model 17548-4271DLV, 15.6" touch screen
Windows 10 (upgraded from Windows 8.1)
Intel Core i7-5500U CPU @ 2.20 GHz
8 GB RAM
1 TB hard drive, 5400 RPM
Intel HD Graphics 5500 card
Logitech K740 illuminated USB keyboard
Microsoft Office 2003, SP3
Last weekend, I attempted to do the clean install of Win 10, and everything went well until I reached the point that I had to specify into which of my 6 partitions on my hard drive I wanted to install the new OS. I had researched this question, and I had decided to keep all of the partitions, since they were rather small (they totaled up to less than 1% of my total 1TB hard drive), and they represented potential means for some type of emergency back-up, restore, etc. that could prove very convenient under some future circumstances. So I selected the partition that had virtually all of the capacity, and was designated OS.
At that point I was surprised to see this message: "Selected disk is of the GPT partition style." It wouldn't let me install the new OS in that partition. I went online on another PC, and I learned that there are only 2 ways I could install the OS on that hard drive. First, I could delete all of the existing partitions and install the OS into the single remaining partition. But I didn't want to lose those partitions, as I mentioned above, and I also didn't want to lose any possible benefits to having the GPT partition. Second, I could further partition that large OS partition into a total of 2, and command the system to put most of the disk capacity in the new partition. But I was concerned about that, too, because I didn't know how much capacity to leave with the existing GPT partition.
So I am writing to find out if there is a more satisfying way for me to identify or create a large partition onto which I could successfully load the new Win 10 ISO OS without affecting anything else.
Any suggestions?
Thank you very much!
Laserguy
Dell Inspiron Laptop, model 17548-4271DLV, 15.6" touch screen
Windows 10 (upgraded from Windows 8.1)
Intel Core i7-5500U CPU @ 2.20 GHz
8 GB RAM
1 TB hard drive, 5400 RPM
Intel HD Graphics 5500 card
Logitech K740 illuminated USB keyboard
Microsoft Office 2003, SP3
