How do I format my hard drive without erasing Windows?

Recently the (quite old) laptop freezes when starting up, e.g. There where you see the Win logo or when you log in screen. Now I want to format it, it doesn't work in Uefi, no idea why, it just says that it failed. In safe mode, I can still get into the PC. So how do I reset the PC without deleting Windows, or rather, without having to buy new Windows. I could borrow another PC to e.g. Drag files onto a stick.

Simply reset the entire PC via the settings. However, you will lose all data on the hard drive.

Not at all.
Formatting a hard drive IS erasing everything stored on it. So also the operating system itself.

You can only drag the operating system somewhere else and then reinstall it after formatting. But more than that.

This is then no formatting…

If the PC freezes when starting, that's no problem for the hard drive either…
EXCEPT: it can't load Windows properly…

Not at all. Formatting the disk overwrites the file system table.

And if you do a hard reset, the hard drive is automatically reformatted…

This is not possible with my win10. Why?

Kp, but you just need a bootstick and everything is set up again. Why this doesn't work with your Windows 10 is a mystery to me, it works with my laptops too

64bit?

Turn off the battery and let it cool down = 24h min.

Yes all 4 systems Windows 10 2004 64-bit

You have the operating system forever, even if you have to reinstall it. With Win 10 you don't even have to re-enter the key. Was on the same computer.

I now boot again lassan booted well, after language comes install, setup is started, then windows activate I enter I have no product key, then I select win10 home, then I accept the license, and now the type of installation?

Why don't you have a product key if you have windows and why do you have to specify it at all. It is anchored in the system itself and can't be deleted (not on the hard drive). Windows should find it and accept it automatically.

But actually you'd have to choose custom and then have everything done again.

I bought this from the village neighbor. Such a DR. He does PC help and nothing with Linux. He installed kaspersky and advised me to throw away the book.

How do you come up with the antivirus program now? We're with Mycrosoft and not Kaspersky

I now choose user-defined, then part table, 3part, part1 500mb total 464 free type primary, then unallocated space, then part2 below is win can't be installed on this drive

How should I say it was professional?

Delete all partitions, windows automatically creates 2 of its own, one c and one on which Windows then runs. Those with Windows can only be deleted later via the console, or by resetting them again.

the partitions are explained here

The 2 partitions are gone, the unallocated space is still there

Exactly and you should be able to choose it now. If that does not work, either windows or the hard drive is faulty.

Now something starts

When that starts the hard drive is reformatted and windows loads

Now nothing works again, black screen and a line flashes in the top left

I restarted, was in the bios, put boot on stick again, booted again in install mode, this time create the partitions again and-

my device ran into a problem and needs to restart-we restart for you-

now nothing works again, black screen and a line flashes in the top left

So now I'm back for the third time where the parts are to be deleted, they are not deleted, I can't do anything, delete anything, that's how it looks now.

I still have a notebook with win10pro there it is the same as it was with this asus netbook - in disk management, formatting is not possible, nothing is possible, hard disk can be activated and then the system is broken like with the asus now… 😢

The partition is an EFI system partition (ESP) that is not NTFS

Win10 and 7 can't be downloaded from the hard drive! But it's a shame that you can't fix or put anything back?

You can get any operating system down from an HDD or SSD. The files used for the recovery are then on an extra partition and can also be formatted.

BLA BLA BLA

Wow. So pointless.