Need Help On clean installation of windows 10 on my HP P045TX Laptop ‎

[Aarav89]

Need Help On clean installation of windows 10 on my HP P045TX Laptop. Originally my laptop was pre installed with windows 8.1 but later i've upgraded to windows 10. Now i want to completely format all my Drives including Recovery Disk:D and clean install my laptop with windows 10 with setting up recovery partition manually, so could you please guide my through the whole process step by step.

[WAWood]

@Aarav89 

Sorry -- NOT able to do what you want -- for two reasons.

First, the recovery partition is set at the factory and there is no simple way for you to recreate it.  If you were to use HP Recovery Media, that would reformat the entire drive, reinstall Windows and the Recovery partition, but that would be for Win8.1.  There is no way to do that for Win10.

Second, while you CAN install Win10 clean, there is no way for you to create your own HP recovery partition.

That said ... if all you want is a way to create recovery media for Win10 after the clean install, then read on ...

My suggestion is you consider using a third-party solution known as Macrium Reflect (MR).

I prefer to use third-party recovery solutions for the following reasons:
1) More flexibility and reliabilty -- can make recovery media as often as you like, not restricted to one attempt, which if it fails, then you are stuck.
2) More media options -- can create media in DVD, USB stick, or external drive format
3) Mounting option -- can "mount" the save images as virtual "drives" and extract individual files and folders
4) WinPE boot option -- can install a special boot option that allows you to boot to recovery information and do a repair or restore from there -- when Windows will not boot

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR) from here: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
2) Run MR and choose the option: "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows" to write a full backup to an external drive, USB stick, or DVDs
3) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD

My experience is that MR, when using the High Compression option, typically can compress the saved image file to about 50% of the USED space in the OS partition. This means if you have an 80GB OS partition, and 40GB is used, MR only needs about 20GB to store the image file.

I use this all the time and it typically takes less than 15 minutes to do the image backup and about the same time or less to do a restore. Plus, MR has the option to Add a Recovery Boot Menu entry. This allows you then to boot into WinPE, and you can then use that to do a restore -- when you can't boot into Windows!

NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive, USB stick or DVDs in only a few minutes.

Good Luck

[Aarav89]

First of all, thank you for replying back,

I understood everything which you have said earlier. Can you guide me with the fresh installation i.e clearing HP recovery partition, clearing old windows 8 Back up, and fresh installation of windows 10 then  Macrium Reflect (MR) free edition. Should I get my old windows 10 original key prior to installation?

Thanks again and guide me through step by step installation process.