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Last edited by Brink; 11 Jun 2012 at 09:33. Reason: added quote
Hi all I followed the DISKPART steps and it said - Successfully deleted the volume. after exiting and going back to Disk Management it still tells me that it is a Healthy (Primary Partition) with a RAW File System. I have refreshed Disk Management and closed and opened it again. Did I mention that it is a USB that I am trying to re create. I started with a successful DISKPART (clean all) that has also not removed the MBR by the looks of things. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated please.
Mike Walter
Hello Mike, and welcome to Seven Forums.
You could run the "Clean" command on the USB flash drive to wipe it out and make it "unallocated space".
Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command
Afterwards, you should be able to just format the USB as usual. :)
Hi Brink
Thank you and thanks for replying I did do a clean all using DISKPART 1st and it said it was successful even though the MBR seems to still be there.
Mike
I have also done a disk wipe and partition re create using Mini Tool Partition Wizard now and still there seems to be no change, it still shows as RAW and I cannot format it.
See if you may be able to "create a new primary partition" on it.
Partition or Volume - Create New
Disk Manager wont allow me to the options are all grayed out, if I try with Mini Tool it tells me apply all changes successfully but it still shows as unalocated in Mini Tool and as Healthy Primary RAW in Disk Management.
And if I try and create using DISKPART I get the following error:
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient
free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify
different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the
maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR di
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partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no
more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended
partition, (only logical drives may be created).
DISKPART>
It seem it has a bad Track 0 I tried an unconditional format and this is the response I received :
C:\Users\216001>FORMAT F: /U
Insert new disk for drive F:
and press ENTER when ready...
The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is FAT32.
Verifying 7651M
Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable.
Does the USB flash drive happen to have a write protect tab feature on it? If so, then you will need to turn it off first.
In addition, you might see if you may be able to format the USB flash drive after using the free Active KillDisk on it.