Question about partitions on a fresh install (urgent)

You should read the sticky on preserving OEM activation before touching it.
EFI is your system partition that contains the boot information and is fat32 formatted.
MSR is handled by the system for the GPT partition scheme.
system partition is where Windows is installed.
Windows RE partition (350ish mb one) is where Windows Setup copies the winre.wim, and is always in a subfolder such as "\Windows RE"

The other remaining partition is the factory restore image. I would seriously avoid deleting this one unless you know what you're doing.
You don't technically need it if you have your OEM key and the bios tables intact, but it would make it impossible to restore your system to the shipped condition if you delete it.

It should be noted that if you delete the rest and run setup, it will not automatically associate recovery with that partition.
You would need to mount the partition by using diskpart, something like this:

Code:

diskpart
select disk 0
list partition
select partition 5 (whichever is the 2-4ish GB one that is your recovery partition)
assign
exit

Then when it has a drive letter assigned, you run reagentc and point it at the ospartition (your factory reset partition)
Firstly you need to navigate into the newly assigned drive and find the folder name the install.wim or whatever it's called is in.
Remember this next command should only be used after deleting the other 4 partitions and re-installing Windows:
NOTE - You need to use admin command prompt on this (winkey+x then a)

Code:

reagentc /setosimage /path Y:\Recovery /target C:\Windows /index 1

You need to replace the Y:\Recovery part with the actual path of the folder containing the install.wim I just discussed.

Again, read the preserving OEM sticky before messing with any of this.

 

i bought a efi notebook deleted all partitions with disk part clean command
and then let windows create the 4 partitions automatically when asked
if you don't delete everything you still have boot assigned to that OS

start windows' dvd and when you reach partitions press shift and f10,
in command type:

Code:

diskpart
list disk
select disk 0 (0 usually is the main hard drive)
clean

close command prompt and install

 

Well, you don't actually need to backup the entire drive. You just need to copy that install.wim in that recovery partition and you can point the reagentc at that, anytime.
You see what I'm getting at? You can just stuff that install.wim on a dvdr and copy/paste it to a drive to use it.
You just need to know that you can never have the restore image on the system partition where windows is installed, so you either need to shrink the partition with diskmgmt.msc and create an extra one,
or you can put it on a different hard drive.

I'm not sure if you can just point reagentc at the install.wim on the dvdr.
There's a rule that the osimage and reimage have to be in a subfolder, so if it works on a dvdr you'd have to put it in a folder.

 

Just in case i would recommend you make the FACTORY RECOVERY. if you screw up then you always have the ability to RECOVER.
and some UEFIs are different from others... not all work the same, due to Manufactures have the ability and rights to modify as they see fit...
many Acer and HP users have found out the HARD WAY....
it never hurts to be overly cautious.

 

DISKPART> list partition


Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Recovery 300 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 System 99 MB 301 MB
Partition 3 Reserved 128 MB 400 MB
Partition 4 Primary 930 GB 528 MB


here I send you default windows partitioning like i have is a 1tb drive with default partition,
regarding the recovery why recover all the crap the install? delete it you can
get info about your key is stored in bios under MSDM and you can find it with aida64
here's mine (deleted part of my key, it's a windows 8.1 core singlelanguage key


cheers