What will happen if I delete my primary partition on my harddrive?

[Dr_Clueless]

So here's my predicament. I built a new computer and installed Windows 10 on it. It posts just fine, but whenever I boot Windows 10 it ends up freezing after a random amount of use. This renders my new computer unusable - and as you can tell, is a bit of a problem. So, I decided to reinstall Windows. I may have selected the wrong partition to install it to, or maybe it's because I didn't delete the primary partition when I reinstalled Windows, but mid installation, while it was gathering updates, it froze. I doubt my Windows installation survived, so I want to try and reinstall it again the right way. (That was the original plan, anyway.)

So, that leads me to my question - in order to successfully reinstall Windows 10, I must totally reset my hard-drive. To do this I have to format and delete all the extra partitions Windows created. Am I supposed to delete the primary partition as well, or should I leave it as it is? I don't want to destroy my brand new hard-drive.

 

[getochkn]

Just delete all partition that are shown in the Windows setup.

Freezing could be more of a heat issues or something. A brand new PC with a new HD shouldn't be freezing in any way. Reinstalling Windows won't fix heating or hardware issues.

 

[SBMfromLA]

Just delete all partition that are shown in the Windows setup.

Freezing could be more of a heat issues or something. A brand new PC with a new HD shouldn't be freezing in any way. Reinstalling Windows won't fix heating or hardware issues.

What he said..... DELETE everything... then create a new partition and format it if you want...

 

[hang-the-9]

Here is the issue with what you are trying to do, you had a system with Windows 10, it froze, then you tried a clean Windows 10 setup, that froze. I don't think deleting the partitions will help you, it sounds like something else is wrong with the system, bad hard drive, bad RAM possibly.