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Kevin Heath is seeking advice on how to reinstall Windows on his old laptop, which now shows 27 partitions and reports insufficient space during installation. Despite attempts to format the drive, he's unable to proceed. Neemobeer suggests using the advanced installation option to delete all partitions, which should allow Windows to be installed properly.

Kevin Heath

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I have an old laptop that I thought I'd try and speed up by using it as a Chromebook, however, I want to go back to Windows.

I created a bootable USB Windows 10 drive and booted from that. I have run Win10 on this laptop before.

When I try to install, there are now 27 partitions on the drive and the main one with some 450GB reported gives the error "not enough space to instal Windows".

I tried formatting that part of the drive and that hasn't worked.

How can I get my drive back into a condition where I can reinstal windows?
 

Neemobeer

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Choose the advanced option and delete all the partitions, then install