Deleting all HD partitions W10

I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.
Thanks
pfj

On 18/11/2018 13:23, Peter wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.
Thanks
pfj


https://www.minitool.com/partition-m...zard-home.html


---
Cet email a fait l'objet d'une analyse antivirus par AVG.
http://www.avg.com

Peter wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.
Thanks
pfj

With the other OS :-)

If you select "Custom" in the other OS, have a look
around for various delete and create options. You
don't have to take some lame "default" setup from
your new OS. Using "Custom" you can delete all the old
partitions and define new partitions. Then assign
them roles, as the OS requires.

By doing that, it allows you to even plan for "multi-boot"
setups.

Based on the properties of the machine, you also get
to plan at this point, regarding MBR or GPT, legacy
versus UEFI boot. I have my machine set to UEFI+CSM,
legacy boot, and for a lot of boot drives, just use
four partition MBR. For a data drive, I have the
option later of making it GPT (which suits drives
larger than 2.2TB in size).

With modern OSes, one of the "selectors" for what
happens next, is your BIOS level boot option. If you use
the F8 (or equivalent) "popup boot" option, your install
media can be booted in (unnamed) legacy mode, or
there will be a notation indicating the DVD will be
booted in UEFI mode. Once booted in the mode, that
helps determine the install mode (UEFI as well).
How you boot... determines how it installs...

So what happens at BIOS level, is also critical
to getting what you want out of the install exercise.

Windows 10 itself, has many of these same aspects.
You can custom install in Win10 too. You can delete
partitions. Create partitions. And so on.

And if you're still having problems, a copy of DBAN
on a CD should take care of those pesky partitions :-)
It arrives as an ISO, and using your copy of Imgburn
or Nero or whatever, you burn a bootCD by the burning
software converting the ISO to the appropriate boot format.
You don't drag and drop the ISO file onto the CD, since
that will result in un-bootable media. The ISO should
not be "visible", once the burn is complete. There should
be folders of files on the CD instead. Boot DBAN, and
it'll clean off *any* storage device connected to that
computer. Select single pass cleaning, as that's sufficient.
Doing 35-pass stopped being necessary, many years ago.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/

*******

If the machine uses eMMC or an SSD drive or something,
then you'll need different instructions for that. With
rotating hard drives, we don't really care how many writes
are done. With an SSD, it pays to be more specific about
what you do to it. Same goes for eMMC - limited wear life.
The Custom option in the installer you're about to use,
should be an excellent tool for usage with an SSD. DBAN
would be gross overkill for an SSD or an eMMC. With an
HDD, DBAN takes time, but doesn't cost you anything
in terms of wear.

Sometimes the effects of the manufacturer using GPT
on the drive, are hard to remove. The installer you're
about to use may insist on doing GPT for the new setup,
based on what it "sniffed". Using your heavy hammer DBAN,
you can teach the storage device some manners. And then
your installer will have a truly clean place to work.
It won't be able to sniff GPT any more.

Sometimes, the best tools for an overview of the situation,
are unexpected ones.

https://i.postimg.cc/q7MNDGC2/ways-to-view-disks.jpg

Even though an old GPT disk didn't have any visible
partitions on it, I've had installers insist the disk
is GPT no matter what I do. For them, a little "cleaning"
is required. From Linux (erases GPT partition table area)

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024768 count=200

would be enough to erase the pesky content. In Windows,
you can use diskpart "clean all" option, but it erases
the whole disk. And isn't as surgical as using "dd" would
be. There is a "dd.exe" for Windows too, but the problem
is not being able to run it from the emergency boot CD for
Win10. On many occasions, I've used the dd.exe from here
to take care of stuff. If you have a second computer, and
can move the drive into your second computer, then this
would be a lot easier to arrange.

http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/dd-0.6beta3.zip

The first link there, has the README with how to use
it. Or at least, it notes the syntax differences (the
disk naming convention in Windows is different).

Paul

On 18-11-2018 12:23, Peter wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.
Thanks
pfj

carefully....

On 11/18/18 5:23 AM, Peter wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.
Thanks
pfj

The installation program for the other OS should have a tool for that.

--
37 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1
day).

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Even a religion like Christianity purportedly created to champion the
poor and downtrodden was later taken over by the rich and powerful for
their own benefit." --C. W. Dalton

On 11/18/2018 3:23 AM, Peter wrote
I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.
Thanks
pfj

Install something like Macrium reflect and image the drive.
Archive it somewhere permanently, along with the install package
for macrium.

YOU may not like windows 10, but putting it back will make it a LOT easier
to sell it in the future.

Peter schreef op 18-11-2018
in :
I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.

Clearly, due to youre lack in knowledge in general, i do advise you to
buy an complete new laptop at your local shop.

--
MdW.

Machiel de Wit wrote:
Peter schreef op 18-11-2018
in :
I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.

Clearly, due to youre lack in knowledge in general, i do advise you to
buy an complete new laptop at your local shop.

A quick way to do it, would be to pull the
drive and insert another drive in its place.
Like say, a cheap SSD. There are some pretty
amazing prices out there on SSD drives. Still
big enough for a basic install of something.

Flip the machine over and see if it has a drive bay.

Paul

Paul schreef op 18-11-2018
in :
Machiel de Wit wrote:
Peter schreef op 18-11-2018
in :
I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.

Clearly, due to youre lack in knowledge in general, i do advise you
to buy an complete new laptop at your local shop.

A quick way to do it, would be to pull the
drive and insert another drive in its place.
Like say, a cheap SSD. There are some pretty
amazing prices out there on SSD drives. Still
big enough for a basic install of something.

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-500GB.../dp/B0781Z7Y3S

--
MdW.

On 18/11/2018 12.23, Peter wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.

There are several ways. The other OS may have an option to do that or to
ignore completely what is on the disk. A rescue CD may have to option to
"create new partition table" on the disk, and that's usually enough.

If the disk was part of a RAID setup, things may get interesting, though.

However, if you intend to sometime claim warranty repairs on that
machine (or just sell it) you will probably need to restore the computer
to its original condition, so you can either save an image of the disk,
create a "restore to factory condition CD" or whatever is called, or
replace the internal hard disk with a new one, hopefully an SSD, which
will also make your machine much faster.

Note that it is also possibly your new OS can coexist with the old one,
but this may require a bigger disk.

HTH :-)

--
Cheers, Carlos.

On 18/11/2018 23:14, KenW wrote:
That is a great price

For 500GB!!!!!!!!!!!!!. That's not good for me. I need a minimum 2TB
and so WD or Seagate normal disks are enough for me. costs me about £50
(GBP).



--
With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer
satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

In article ,
Machiel de Wit wrote:
Peter schreef op 18-11-2018
in :
I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.

Clearly, due to youre lack in knowledge in general, i do advise you to
buy an complete new laptop at your local shop.

Which would accomplish exactly nothing, since the new computer would also
come with Windows 10 (cough, cough) on it.

Hard to get away from the Microsoft Tax.

--
The randomly chosen signature file that would have appeared here is more than 4
lines long. As such, it violates one or more Usenet RFCs. In order to remain
in compliance with said RFCs, the actual sig can be found at the following URL:
http://user.xmission.com/~gazelle/Sigs/Noam

Kenny McCormack wrote:

Machiel de Wit wrote:

Peter:

I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.

Clearly, due to youre lack in knowledge in general, i do advise you
to buy an complete new laptop at your local shop.

Which would accomplish exactly nothing, since the new computer would also
come with Windows 10 (cough, cough) on it.

You needed to resurrect a 7-month old discussion to retort a response
from a troll?

In article , VanguardLH wrote:
Kenny McCormack wrote:

Machiel de Wit wrote:

Peter:

I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.

Clearly, due to youre lack in knowledge in general, i do advise you
to buy an complete new laptop at your local shop.

Which would accomplish exactly nothing, since the new computer would also
come with Windows 10 (cough, cough) on it.

You needed to resurrect a 7-month old discussion to retort a response
from a troll?

You have a problem with that?

Seriously, I've never understood this idiotic idea that responding to old
threads was a bad thing. It's no worse and no better than respodning to
new threads.

--
Kenny, I'll ask you to stop using quotes of mine as taglines.

- Rick C Hodgin -

On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 00:49:25 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Kenny McCormack wrote:

Machiel de Wit wrote:

Peter:

I have an Acer Aspire laptop running W10. I want to delete all
partitions to install another OS.

How would I go about doing that.

Clearly, due to youre lack in knowledge in general, i do advise you
to buy an complete new laptop at your local shop.

Which would accomplish exactly nothing, since the new computer would also
come with Windows 10 (cough, cough) on it.

You needed to resurrect a 7-month old discussion to retort a response
from a troll?

We don't all sit all day scanning Usenet!