Can I wipe out all partitions while installing windows?

I am booting from usb to re-install windows 10. During the installation process I get prompted with a screen showing a bunch of partitions and get asked in which of them I would like to install the OS.

Would it be safe to format and delete all partitions and then let windows install itself in the only partition left after deleting the old ones?

I would imagine windows will rebuild the partitions it needs during the process but perhaps I am wrong?

Thanks

Solution 1:

Yes. You can format the disk and delete all partitions. No issue and I find this to be preferable.

Windows 10 will build 3 partitions: UEFI partition, Recovery partition, and then the large data partition for installing Windows 10.

I have done this and it works just fine.