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Anonymous
2023-01-17T10:17:00+00:00

In a previous post, I mentioned I was in a bitlocker loop because my C drive was encrypted and i did not back up password correctly

I was told to do a clean reinstall of Windows 10 by a user here. I had watched some videos on that process. It seems that I have to delete all the drives here and an "unallocated" will appear and I would have to install there? Is that correct?

(I dont have a problem with the user who was helping me, just time zone difference and i can't wait until the next day because i dont want to test turning the power off during this stage and I get black outs here)

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-01-17T10:50:35+00:00

    Hi, I'm Anvar, I'd be glad to help you today on this

    Click on the Custom: Install Windows only (Advanced) option clean install windows on the drive , which will get rid of bitlocker encryption as below steps remove all data on the disk

    Select the partition with the current installation (usually "Drive 0"), and click the Delete button.

    Quick tip: If "Drive 0" has multiple partitions, you have to select and delete each of the partitions to allow the setup to use the entire drive for the new clean installation. Windows 10 will create the required partitions automatically during the process. It's not necessary to delete the partitions on secondary drives.

    Click the Yes button.

    Select the empty drive (Drive 0 Unallocated Space).

    Click the Next button.

    Once you complete the steps, the setup will proceed with the fresh installation of Windows 10 on the device.

    Hope this helps.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-01-17T17:06:55+00:00

    We need to shrink C drive , currently it is having 476.31 GB, you can shrink it to 276 GB and you will get unallocated space of 200 gb in Disk management, right click on it and click New and Select Simple Volume and leave all default values as it is and allow to format , you can assign Drive letter D ,

    That way the C drive will be divided in to 2 partitions

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-01-17T16:48:08+00:00

    No it is all good, you are seeing just "C" since we opted to install windows on unallocated space, the C drive occupied entire capacity of the disk, if you still need a secondary partition, kindly d below steps

    Kindly follow below guide t shrink C drive and allocate remaining space for D

    https://www.wikihow.com/Shrink-or-Extend-Your-E...

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-01-17T17:02:10+00:00

    Thank you for the fast reply, that's reassuring to know

    I've shrank C drive

    It seems I need to extend the new drive but there's no extend option in the menu for me. Do i have to install a program?

    Oh wait, i read it wrong, seems I only need to shrink, it's still called unallocated and there's no "local disk D" shown yet. What's the next step?

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-17T16:41:23+00:00

    Hi I did as instructed,

    I don't have local disk D

    There's only C drive, what do I do?

    Did I mess up?

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