Installed Win 7 Professional w/out making partition, that a problem?

Halo Diehards · Apr 5, 2014

I'm working on my first build, and I got ahead of the instructions and installed Windows before making any partitions (following Newegg video). It's up and running but I haven't installed any drivers yet, because when I went back to the video I realized I hadn't created partitions first. Is this a necessary step? I've done some searching and there's a ton of posts about partitions, but I'm not getting any answers on why we install them and if it's always a necessary step.

ThatVietGuy · Apr 5, 2014

Partitions aren't necessary. They're good if you want to separate your data into separate "drives," but you typically don't NEED them.

sunder25 · Apr 6, 2014

A partition is generally a good idea because if for some reason you have to do a clean install you don't lose all data on the drive.

Halo Diehards · Apr 7, 2014

Can I do a partition after the fact? And if not, how do I uninstall the operating system so I can start over, lol.

Halo Diehards · May 30, 2014

sunder25 :

Just to follow up on this, it looks like my computer automatically created a partition for me when I installed Windows, so that's great in case I ever need to do a clean install. Thanks for your help!

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