Hi guys, I recently bought an SSD and decided to install it on my machine, I've set it as the #1 boot option, and then I tried to format my previous hard drive so I can use it for data. Whenever I right click and do it in explorer, it says "Windows was unable to complete the format". If I do it via command prompt it makes the drive disappear from explorer til I restart again.
Not sure what to do at this point.
xChase
When your saying command prompt are you using Diskpart ?
Can you upload the disk management image please
Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
And these are my only options when I right click:
That is why you can't delete it .
It has the mark of Active . What is inside the D partition ?
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When you installed Windows to the SSD did you have the other drive installed ( plugged in ) ?
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Change the boot propriety inside the bios to Disk 1 ( SSD ) and do a startup repair
Might want to run it 3-times
The D partition was my old HDD that I used to run windows on.That is why you can't delete it .
It has the mark of Active . What is inside the D partition ?
:Added:
When you installed Windows to the SSD did you have the other drive installed ( plugged in ) ?
:ADDED:
Change the boot propriety inside the bios to Disk 1 ( SSD ) and do a startup repair
Might want to run it 3-times
Yes I had the HDD installed when I installed the SSD.
I've changed the priority.
And I'll do those steps now.
That fixed it, thanks. I also had to mark my SSD as active for some reason (after I had installed and ran windows on it with the other HDD in)
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