I recently formatted a 500 gb hard drive for installation with the Linux system Zorin. The first format went well, however I encountered an issue after having a USB fault out on me half way through the install, leaving some installed folders on the hard drive. Now, I'm unable to install Zorin on the hard drive because it can't delete the system files already installed.
I've got a dual boot system through 2 hard drives however, the other with Windows 7 Ultimate. Whenever I look at the drive in "Computer", it doesn't show up at all. I read another post, which told me to right click computer, go to management, and go under storage. I did see the drive, however, it stated it had one unreadable 500 gb partition without a file system (not a single other partition was there, either). It didn't give me the option to format, delete, or clean anything on that particular drive.
I then went and re-installed Zorin's USB launcher onto a different more stable USB, and booted to the live client. I went into computer there, thinking it may have formatted into a Linux only file system, but even when I went to format it there, it stated "Cannot Mount Drive", and when right clicked, everything was grayed out.
Throughout all of this, I could access both of the USB devices and the other hard drive just fine, in both Windows 7 and the Zorin live client.
Any help would be much appreciated!
I've got a dual boot system through 2 hard drives however, the other with Windows 7 Ultimate. Whenever I look at the drive in "Computer", it doesn't show up at all. I read another post, which told me to right click computer, go to management, and go under storage. I did see the drive, however, it stated it had one unreadable 500 gb partition without a file system (not a single other partition was there, either). It didn't give me the option to format, delete, or clean anything on that particular drive.
I then went and re-installed Zorin's USB launcher onto a different more stable USB, and booted to the live client. I went into computer there, thinking it may have formatted into a Linux only file system, but even when I went to format it there, it stated "Cannot Mount Drive", and when right clicked, everything was grayed out.
Throughout all of this, I could access both of the USB devices and the other hard drive just fine, in both Windows 7 and the Zorin live client.
Any help would be much appreciated!
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