Accidently made a partition

[Ninjafilipina93]

I was installing windows onto my newly built from scratch desktop. I accidently canceled out of the instalation of windows and now I 2 partitions (?) and another boot option (FAT ATARI IHDS118 8). I am new to building computers. When i trird to install windows 7 again the partitions were called primary and something else. I also read that by having your DVD drive as the first boot option that it will boot faster and then later switch the first boot option to the HDD. Which is also what I did. Is that true? I also have yet to fully finish installing windows since i see the 2 partitions and dont know which one to choose. Please someone tell me there is a way to fix this?

 

[SuperMassiveScum]

You have two partitions? During windows installation one of the advanced options allows you to modify partitions - you can delete it as you see fit.

Booting from your DVD drive first would slow your boot speeds down - your system would try to boot from it, find out nothing is there and then switch to HDD.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Ninjafilipina93,

I guess something went wrong during the installation process.
My advice would be to perform a clean install. Before that, you can clean and format the drive the following way:
- Once you are in Windows setup, press shift+F10 to bring up the command line.
- diskpart [enter]
- list disk [enter]
- select drive [number] [enter]
- clean all [enter]
- create partition primary [enter]
- select partition 1 [enter]
- active [enter]
- format fs=ntfs [enter]
- assign [enter]
- exit [enter]
- exit [enter]

You can set your HDD to be your first boot option.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD