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aagh! Change HD from System to Data - ie wipe, zap clea
MBR's seem to hava a haunting mystique about them all I want to know is how to make the former (Win7 rc/beta) system disk
become a simple data disk. ie reformat, wipe, clean set to unallocated.
Background:
a Disk0 466gb SATA current system installed with official GA release Win7 Ultimate 64 on one single disk with single NTFS partition:
(C:) Healthy(System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition). All works reasonably well (eg hotswapping DATA disks etc.) but slower than January beta or later RC.
b Re-booted with just C: then, once Windows running, added (hot-swapped in) old system disk -
Disk2 466gb SATA OLD system installed with the following NTFS partitions:
(H:) 100mb Healthy (Primary Partition) [System Reserved]
(G:) 232gb NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition)
(D:) 233gb NTFS Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)
I'd be grateful for the simple commands to wipe Disk2 - H:,G: and D: eg diskpart fixmbr etc.( MSDN/Technet guidance borders on the impenetrable.)
I've also checked Sevenforums Tutorials - they also seem to focus on restore/repair - all I want is to have a clean data disk.
Thanks.
Last edited by mike2h; 28 Oct 2009 at 07:27. Reason: Solved