OS Installation Win 7

CD Media

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Bootable Flash drive

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4 GB

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GPT

MBR

NTFS

UEFI

Delete

Ctrl + Delete

Ctrl + Shift + Delete

Shift + Delete

format fs=active quick

format fs=delete quick

format fs=clean quick

format fs=ntfs quick

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Creating a partition reserves a physical portion of the hard drive space that the operating system can address.

Maximizing the features of operating system, application and the use of hard drive space.  

Partitioning verifies that the file system has no errors. Windows will not install properly with file system errors.

You need to create a partition for future backups before Windows will allow to install.

To ensure that the operating system will not run on the computer.

To ensure that the operating system will run properly on the computer.

To prevent the installation of the operating system.

To randomly install the operating system without checking the system requirements.

To increase the storage capacity of the drive.

To improve the performance of the operating system.

To organize files on the drive.

To separate the operating system from user data.