Hello,
my friend sent me a photo regarding our conversation about how 'slow' his laptop works. In disk management tool there were:
3 recovery partitions without volume name
2 OEM partitions with exact same size
1 System EFI partition without volume name
1 C partition with everything else
After reading few threads about similar issues I advised him to use windows 8 recovery option (because I had no knowledge about reinstalling a laptop with pre-installed OS). After that his computer was even 'slower'. Without any thought I said he should try clean installation from bootable usb. He followed all steps until he had to choose partition on which he would install his OS. He deleted all recovery partitions, formated all of them including OEM partition. And after he was unable to install windows on any partition or start OS from laptop drive.
Laptop model is HP Probook 450 g0. I tried using diskpart commands and efi and try to clean volumes, create new primary, or even change format (all volumes are gtp now). If this is the way to, go I had 2 errors while trying to delete a partition, I can check them and state here.
Should I restore drive to previous state or clean drive so I can perform installation from external drive? Which one I can do?
I only performed clean installation on custom-built PC, never tried on laptop so I never had problems dividing, formatting or creating new partitions.
I tried reading more about drive architecture, how partition information is stored and GUID but I it's a lot of information and I really don't wanna mess up his PC. I can try getting information via cmd but as I said every partition is clean, so I can't (correct me if I'm wrong) access most windows functions .
my friend sent me a photo regarding our conversation about how 'slow' his laptop works. In disk management tool there were:
3 recovery partitions without volume name
2 OEM partitions with exact same size
1 System EFI partition without volume name
1 C partition with everything else
After reading few threads about similar issues I advised him to use windows 8 recovery option (because I had no knowledge about reinstalling a laptop with pre-installed OS). After that his computer was even 'slower'. Without any thought I said he should try clean installation from bootable usb. He followed all steps until he had to choose partition on which he would install his OS. He deleted all recovery partitions, formated all of them including OEM partition. And after he was unable to install windows on any partition or start OS from laptop drive.
Laptop model is HP Probook 450 g0. I tried using diskpart commands and efi and try to clean volumes, create new primary, or even change format (all volumes are gtp now). If this is the way to, go I had 2 errors while trying to delete a partition, I can check them and state here.
Should I restore drive to previous state or clean drive so I can perform installation from external drive? Which one I can do?
I only performed clean installation on custom-built PC, never tried on laptop so I never had problems dividing, formatting or creating new partitions.
I tried reading more about drive architecture, how partition information is stored and GUID but I it's a lot of information and I really don't wanna mess up his PC. I can try getting information via cmd but as I said every partition is clean, so I can't (correct me if I'm wrong) access most windows functions .
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