edit registry w/o Win 7?

I started the process a little before 6 this morning. so, closing in on 7 hrs. I have dual 2.8 G processors, not fast by today's standards but it works pretty promptly for most tasks.

My question is:

Did you disconnect All other drives first?

hey, Karl,
I have to go run an errand, be away about an hour. How about I wait til I get back to jump to conclusions

Once again, the question is:

Did you disconnect ALL other drives first?

Hey! Says "DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk."

Would you please answer the question:

Did you disconnect ALL other drives?

Here I am trying to help you and you are ignoring a very iimportant question.

Please forgive me, I just walked in from my errand. I did, in fact, reply to you from my phone. To the message that clearly said, "do not reply to this message."
Yes, all the drives were disconnected both internal and external.
Yes, did that first.

Good now using diskpart
select the drive.
then
just in case the thing is still dynamic,
CONVERT BASIC

Let me know what you see.

The selected disk is not a dynamic disk. Select a dynamic disk to convert to basic.

Great. That's what I expected, but had to be sure.

Now with the disk selected:
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
FORMAT FS=NTFS
ACTIVE
ASSIGN
EXIT