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‎11-22-2019 06:17 AM

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Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hey

I want to format only C Drive of my windows 10. But I am a little bit worried about formating. I want to format my system through recovery partition. But I am worried if I formatted the system with recovery drive then my whole drives data will be lost. And while formatting, no C drive formatting option is there. So  I need help how can I format only C drive without losing my data of others drive from windows recovery partition?

 

 

Please Help!

Thanks in Advance

 

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‎11-22-2019 09:24 AM

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@smartsang 

Basically -- you can't!  The Recovery tool is designed to erase and reformat the ENTIRE drive, so there is no way to restrict it to a single drive.

 

However, you can download an ISO file from this tool and make a bootable USB from which you can then reformat your C: drive:  https://www.techworld.com/download/system-desktop-tools/partition-wizard-bootable-cd-90-316/

 

To make the bootable USB, once you have the ISO file, look online for RUFUS, download and install that.



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