How to Restore Data and Files From External Drive After Clean Reinstall

[phillpower2]

Having the ISO on DVD already makes things a bit easier.

Copy the drivers to your thumbdrive.

Have the Windows 10 DVD in the drive then rather than shutting down the notebook to install Windows right click to open and run the setup option that we can see in your screenshot above.

Remember to select the Custom Installation option so that you can create your 250GB Windows partition.

Once Windows has been installed, install the chipset drivers from your thumbdrive etc.

[Kidderman3]

Having the ISO on DVD already makes things a bit easier.

Copy the drivers to your thumbdrive.

Have the Windows 10 DVD in the drive then rather than shutting down the notebook to install Windows right click to open and run the setup option that we can see in your screenshot above.

Remember to select the Custom Installation option so that you can create your 250GB Windows partition.

Once Windows has been installed, install the chipset drivers from your thumbdrive etc.

I appear to have made some progress with the clean reinstall of Windows 10, however it has raised some questions: The first two attempts at installing from the ISO resulted in an ‘Installation failed’ error message. The third attempt was successful, however at no point during each of the three attempts was I given the option to do a custom install or create a separate partition for Windows 10. I was given the option to change what to keep. I chose to keep nothing in case one or more programs were causing the problem with Windows 10. The ISO was downloaded using the media creation tool. Screenshot 1 shows the current disk management window. Is it too late to create a partition, or can it be done post-installation? I was prepared to install the Dell drivers which I’d copied to a thumbdrive pre-installation, however the Dell drivers folder (same folder as on thumbdrive) appeared after the reinstall (see screenshot 2). Having made a list of the order in which to install the Dell drivers-including the BIOS-is it still necessary for me to do so? I would have expected Device Manager to show that certain components of the system were missing the necessary drivers. Screenshot 3 shows the current Device Manager.

[phillpower2]

The above suggests that you did an in place upgrade, no problem if everything is working as it should be.

You can still do what was suggested by shrinking the C: partition and then creating a new simple volume/partition, easy to follow guide courtesy of Lenovo here

[Kidderman3]

I will now conclude this thread. Thank you for your help.

[phillpower2]

You are welcome and thank you for letting us know that you no longer required assistance (y)