SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

Bare Foot Kid · 01 Sep 2012

internalaudit said:

Hey Bare Foot Kid, thanks so much for the prompt response. Have a great weekend.

Thanks for writing up the tutorial.

My pleasure mate, be sure to post back here with updates.

JRockZ · 19 Sep 2012

i just bought a 64Gb SSD drive, got it cheep! i started to install windows and it errored out then windows couldnt find the drive at all, after several reboots and that i then started this tutorial when i ran clean all on disk 0 which was showing as 55gb it started to clean then popped up an error Virtual Disk Service Error: The object has been deleted. Then afte rthat i tried to select disck 0 again and it said there is no disk selected, so i changed over to disk 1 which is 1909mb and i ran clean all on it and it succeded with no problems.
Now im still missing the 55gb drive,, i have yet to reboot but will shortly and see what if anything that does.......

Disreguard, the drive was bad i tried everything and was unable to get it to work right so i returned it and got a new one thats working PERFECT!

rukkis · 21 Sep 2012

Cant give rep cause Im a newbie I guess, but thanks. Ended my 24hr struggle.

miqballin · 15 Oct 2012

Hey everyone. New to this forum. Read your guide BFK and it's great work. This forum is doing a nice job with all these tutorials/guides. I am trying the 'clean all' command for the second time. The first time I tried and moved onto the installation part, I made an 80GB partition for the system and the rest for other data. I went on to install windows on to the 80GB partition but I got the 'windows could not format a partition on disk 0, error: 0x80070057'. I'm trying the 'clean all' command again but it has been ~2 hours [it's not frozen because the cursor is blinking] for a 230GB HDD. Is that abnormal? Should I restart the computer and try again? Thanks.

Brink · 15 Oct 2012

Hello Miqballin, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

That is a bit longer than usual for only a 230GB HDD, but if you still have HDD activity (HDD light blinking on case), then it's best to let it finish so you don't have to start over.

JRockZ · 15 Oct 2012

I forogt to post back here, i had found a few SSD drives that were returned as defective at (not sure i can say the name so i'll abbreviate) McCntr 60Gb drives for 30 bucks and only had the problem with that first one i posted about above, ive since used this tut about 6 more times with perfect results! So TYVM BFK!

miqballin · 15 Oct 2012

Brink said:

Hello Miqballin, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

That is a bit longer than usual for only a 230GB HDD, but if you still have HDD activity (HDD light blinking on case), then it's best to let it finish so you don't have to start over.

I don't think the lights on my case work for HDD or power. I might have forgotten to plug the cables in when I first build this PC or maybe something happened later on. However, it had been 3+ hours actually and I had a gut feeling that something wasn't right so I closed the command window. I then went on to make a partition from the 'Disk 0 Unallocated Space' by clicking 'New' but after a few seconds of the blue circle spinning/loading, nothing happened. I restarted the PC and tried to make a partition again and this time it has been spinning/loading for 10+ minutes. Should I restart and try again? I just want to make a partition so I can do this process:
Type diskpart and press enter.
Enter list disk and note the number of the disk you want to install on.
Enter select disk n n is the number of the disk.
Enter list partition and note the number of the partition you want to install on.
Enter select partition n n is the number of the partition.
Enter active

Thanks.

Brink · 15 Oct 2012

You could start over, but try using "Clean" instead of "Clean all" to see how it does.

miqballin · 15 Oct 2012

Brink said:

You could start over, but try using "Clean" instead of "Clean all" to see how it does.

Alright so I started diskpart again > list disk > select disk 0 > create partition primary size=71680 (for 70GB) > select partition 1 > active but active doesnt go through and I receive this error:

DiskPart has encountered an error: Data error <cyclic redundancy check>. See the System Even Log for more information.

Edit: Realized I forgot clean command after select disk 0. Will try again after restarting PC.

Edit#2: Also, sometimes when I restart, it stays at the first screen longer than usual. It happens at random restarts. What could be causing that? Thanks.

Brink · 15 Oct 2012

Did you run clean on the disk first before trying to create a new partition on the disk?