ASUS Laptop - want to reinstall clean Win 8, change partitions

DannyITR

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Hello,

I just got the ASUS S56 Ultrabook with a Core I5. It has a 1TB storage drive and a 24GB SSD. My intention is to wipe the drives clean and re-install win 8 without any of the ASUS garbage that came with it. I noticed that my drives are also partitioned 400GB for OS and 500GB for storage and 100GB is nowhere to be found. Ideally, I'd like to install the win 8 only on the SSD to get the maximum performance and use the entire 1TB for storage.

Will the 24GB drive be enough to hold Win 8?
Will the recovery tool even let me do this? I guess it would depend on where the recovery partition is correct? One would think ASUS would put the recovery files in a partition on the larger disk but I haven't figured it out yet.
Is there a chance I could wipe Win 8 from my PC and be totally screwed?
 

DannyITR

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Here is a photo of my partitions. Looks like it should be possible to do what I want since the recovery stuff is on the 1TB drive. The question is, will I have the option to choose this allocation and how do I do it? Will it remove all the ASUS stuff?

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DannyITR

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Well I ran the "remove everything and replace Windows" option in Win 8 and it didn't give me any option to choose the disk partitions and it reinstalled all the garbage crapware from the manufacturer.

From what I understand, my Win 8 key is hard coded int he BIOS and I have a 50/50 chance that it will detect it if I install a clean version via disk image. I've read that it will and I've read that it won't. I've also read that extracting the key yields only a generic key that also may not allow a clean Win 8 install. Seems like Microsoft has gone to great lengths to limit the options of people who buy computers with their software pre installed. Any suggestions?
 

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