Solved How do I remove a boot flag from a device?

[BigBrother]

I'm trying to reformat an SD that I used for a Raspberry Pi but the main partition has a boot flag. Windows thinks the user is an idiot so I can't delete that partition so I can join it up with the other 14.81GB. I do not want to shutdown and boot into GParted just for this one thing- that's silly.

 

[logicearth]

Use diskpart from the command line and use "clean" after selecting the drive. Be sure to select the correct drive before using clean!

 

[BigBrother]

Use diskpart from the command line and use "clean" after selecting the drive. Be sure to select the correct drive before using clean!

Having to use the command line when Windows is predominantly GUI-based. Oh, Microsoft... will you ever get it right?

How do I do it?

cd H:\
diskpart
clean

or

diskpart
clean H:\

 

[pscowboy]

In an "elevated" (run as administrator) command prompt, you type diskpart

After it loads, type list disk. See what # the disk is that you want to work on.
Then type select disk #, plugging in that #.

When diskpart tells you that the disk is selected, type clean

 

[BigBrother]

In an "elevated" (run as administrator) command prompt, you type diskpart

After it loads, type list disk. See what # the disk is that you want to work on.
Then type select disk #, plugging in that #.

When diskpart tells you that the disk is selected, type clean

thanks, it worked.