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    Formatting ASUS

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by espplayer7, Jan 25, 2012.

  1. espplayer7

    espplayer7 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys I have an asus g71g and I want to put a fresh windows 7 on it. When I get to the installation section I notice that there is lots of partitions like: disc 0 partition 1, disc 0 partition 2 DATA, disc 1 partition 2 etc... This laptop had a previous user and I do not know if its safe to delete these or whats what. I do not have the discs that came with the laptop so I do not want to screw something up. My previous laptops only had one partition I could just delete. Help is greatly appreciated thanks!

    My main question is simply can I delete all of the partitions and everything on the disk and do a clean install? I dont want to screw something up and not have the original cds
     
    espplayer7, Jan 25, 2012
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  2. tijo

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    I would make an image of the recovery partition just to be sure, the recovery partition is the one that is only visible through the device manager. Then wipe everything and do the clean install.
     
    tijo, Jan 26, 2012
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