I am trying to reformat my drives and install win 7 x64 on it
I am on step 7 here
Clean Install Windows 7
when i click on my main drive, 400 some gigs it says it is not properly formatted to use win 7. how do i reformat it? i have no access to my desktop, its completely F'ed and I installed linux mint in the mean time to access internet/emails.
Please help
Have you click on Drive Options (Advanced)?
If not, do so and you should be given the option to create a new partition.
Windows will offer to create a 100MB system reserved partition for the master boot record and a partition for Windows.
Select the larger partition, click Next and Windows should begin installing.
All Linux code must be deleted using the CLEAN ALL command.As you have had linux on the HD you need do a Clean all & full format.
1) Boot DVD & Press Shift+F10 (for command prompt)
DISKPART : At PC Startup
2) Boot DVD, & Command Prompt at Startup
(for command prompt)
Type in command line
DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK # (win HD)
CLEAN ALL
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT fs=NTFS
ASSIGN
EXIT
EXIT
SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation
when i type list diskpart it says there is no disk selected?
when i put in diskpart i get several options:
disk
partition
volume
vdisk
which one do i use?
type list disk at the prompt in that black window.
Post a screen shot of the result or at least tell us what then comes up.
Here is a screen shot that comes up on my PC when i type list disk and hit enter key:
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