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Disk Initialization crashes Windows 7 to BSOD
My system has three internal HDDs, I tried to install Linux Ubuntu 11.10 on the 500GB disk 1 and messed up.
When I open Disc Management it tells me that disk 1 is now 7GB and needs initialization, if I press OK the system crashes.
I tried the following from this post: New 1tb hd will not initialize, Disk Management Crashes
- Diskpart and hit enter
- List Disk and hit enter
- Select Disk n where n is the number shown for your problem drive and hit enter
- Create Partition Primary and hit enter
- Format fs=ntfs quick and hit enter
- Assign and hit enter
- Exit and hit enter
At step 4 the system crashes to BSOD.
The details of Disk 1 are shown below in the screenshot.
I would be grateful for any suggestions to return Disk 1 to a normal NTFS 500GB disk, if that is still possible.
Windows 7 Ultimate, AMD FX 4_core, 8GB RAM, HDD Hitachi 500GB PATA on PCI Promise SCSI expansion board.