clean installation of windows 10 Pro, delete all recobery stuff

[kn78]

I bought a HP 270 -a011 with a pre-installed Windows 10 Home 64bit OS. I want to install a clean Windows 10 Pro and delete all this recovery stuff.Has anybody experience with that procedure ?

How can I do that ? And what are the correct BIOS settings ?

[mdklassen]

> ... pre-installed Windows 10 Home 64bit OS. I want to install a clean Windows 10 Pro

It can be done.  Costs a lot for a license for the "Pro" version, but, hey, it's your money.

Of the [few] extra features that only "Pro" has, which do you want/need ?

For free, you can download the "no-bloatware" version of Windows 10 Home, from:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Follow the instructions to create "bootable" media.

> delete all this recovery stuff.

You'll gain 10 to 20 GB of disk-space -- not a lot, in these days of the "standard" disk-drive being over 500 GB.

When installing, you'll have the option to delete all the existing partitions, one-by-one, to create an "empty" disk-drive.

> Has anybody experience with that procedure ? How can I do that ?

Yes, as explained above.

> What are the correct BIOS settings ?

Exactly the same as what you have now.

An Uber driver does not need to change their vehicle's engine, when the passenger changes.

You don't need to change the BIOS, when the operating system [slightly] changes.

[kn78]

Thank you for your feedback. What I really want is to get rid of all this HP recovery stuff and install  a clean

windows 10.

I did reinstall Windows 10 , deleted all partitions. The result was ............. I had the same recovery stuff again when

the installation was done. 

So I think it has something to do with the BIOS and the deeply involved HP booting and recovery system. And my 

project is to get rid of all this HP booting and recovery stuff and install a clean Windows 10.

So I still have to work on this. Perhaps you are able to help me with a step by step description.

Thank you for your help.

Karl kn78

[mdklassen]

> deleted all partitions. The result was ............. I had the same recovery stuff again when the installation was done. 

That is weird.  If you TRULY deleted all of the partitions, then from where has that "stuff" been loaded ?

> My  project is to get rid of all this HP booting and recovery stuff, and install a clean Windows 10.

While Windows is running, run the 'DISKPART' command, and then enter 'help clean', to see:

Removes any and all partition or volume formatting from the disk with focus.

Syntax:  CLEAN [ALL]

    ALL         Specifies that each and every byte\sector on the disk is set to zero, which completely deletes all data contained on the disk.

On master boot record (MBR) disks, only the MBR partitioning information and hidden sector information are overwritten.

On GUID partition table (GPT) disks, the GPT partitioning information, including the Protective MBR, is overwritten.

If the ALL parameter is not used, the first 1MB and the last 1MB of the disk are zeroed.

This erases any disk formatting that had been previously applied to the disk.

The disk's state after cleaning the disk is 'UNINITIALIZED'.

So, set the "focus" to be the disk-drive, and CLEAN the disk-drive.

Then, hold-down the ON/OFF button, until the computer powers-off.

Done.

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[kn78]

Thank you for your fast response !!

I need your help one more time. I tried to set the "clean" command. But I couldn't do it because I am a bloody beginner

in DOD commands. So could you please give me advise how and where I have to enter this commands: "clean and or

all"

Thank you in advance.

[mdklassen]

> So could you please give me advise how and where I have to enter this commands: "clean and or all"

1. Hold down the Windows key (bottom left of your keyboard).

2. While holding it down, press the 'R' key.

3. Release the 'R' key.

4. Release the Windows key.

5. Type   CMD

6. Press the ENTER key.

7. Type   DISKPART  

8. Press the ENTER key.

9. Type   HELP CLEAN

10.  Press the ENTER key.

11. Type LIST VOLUME

12.  Press the ENTER key.

You will see output like:

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label            Fs     Type
  ----------  ---  -----------      -----  ----------
  Volume 0     D                           DVD-ROM
  Volume 1         System Reserved  NTFS   Partition
  Volume 2     C   TRUMP2020        NTFS   Partition

13. Type SELECT VOLUME 1

(assuming that you see System Reserved 

associated with  Volume 1 ) 

14.  Press the ENTER key.

15.  Now, you are ready to type CLEAN

16.  Good luck.

P.S. As that "help" message implies, you do not need to use the 'ALL' option, unless you intend to give the "cleaned" disk-drive to some other person.

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[kn78]

Thank you for helping me so much but ............... it didn't work. I did exactly what you wanted me to do.

But when I entered "clean" it ran into a notice where I was told: 

you can't clean a paritition where the system is on.

So it didn't clean/delete the system partition nore the UEFI part !!

It did nothing.

So now I don't know what to do delete the system partition.

So I have to keep this system I hate and can't install my own Windows 10 Pro with which I used to work

before.

But anyway thank very much for your support.

Regards

kn78

[mdklassen]

> you can't clean a partition where the system is on.

Remove the disk-drive from your computer.

Attach it as a "secondary" disk-drive in some other computer.

Follow the same steps to "clean" that secondary disk-drive.

Return the disk-drive to your computer.

Reinstall Windows.

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@kn78 wrote:

So it didn't clean/delete the system partition nore the UEFI part !!

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You use gParted.

It's a Linux-based tools.

You will find that if you can get comfortable with using Linux much of what you want to do is very simple by booting into Linux.

If your hard drive can't boot, but you boot into Linux, you can copy all of your files off of the failed hard drive. Things like that.