Trouble formatting secondary drive.


  1. Posts : 2
    win7 x64
       #1

    Trouble formatting secondary drive.


    I just placed an old hard drive into my computer to use as a slave. After I booted up on my current hard drive I went into disk manager and tried to format all the partitions. I formated one easily but the other won't seem to format. The option to format or delete volume are both greyed out.

    I then tried to boot from my win7 disk to format the drive that way but it said it could not format dymanic drives. I can't change the drive to basic without deleting the last simple volume.

    I'm stumped on what I should to do to make this work. Any suggestions and/or help is greatly appreciated.

    Thanks.
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  2. Posts : 16,161
    7 X64
       #2

    Use diskpart clean command - make sure you are pointing at the correct drive.

    From an elevated command

    diskpart

    lis disk

    sel disk #

    clean

    exi

    make sure you use the correct disk number in place of # above.
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  3. Posts : 2
    win7 x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I tried that as well. It said: Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume. I don't understand how that is so if I'm booted on the other hard drive.


    EDIT: I managed to use the cmd clean prompt by running my cmd before actual boot. This allowed me to wipe my secondary drive even with all the other errors I was previously getting while trying to do it during windows.
    Last edited by Mandalor28; 19 May 2011 at 14:05. Reason: Problem solved
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  4. Posts : 16,161
    7 X64
       #4

    Glad you got it working - thanks for the update.:)
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