unremovable partion on a 1 tb hard drive

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Tiger321

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I have one hard drive and 1 ssd. I installed windows 7 onto my ssd, however when it all loaded up my hard drive was completely inaccessible (it is a brand new computer). It was partitioned automatically. I tried several methods to get it unpartitioned. One way i tried was through the command script. I selected the hard drive, through the diskpart section, and used "Clean". It then said this "Virtual Disk Service Error: Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump, or hibernation volume." I have no idea on how to fix this. Please help!
 
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ArtPog

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We'll assume that if you disconnect the HDD from the system as Ghislain has suggested you can boot straightaway to your SSD without any problems. Furthermore, the system then operates just fine. Is all that true?

If it is, I don't see any reason to "fix or reinstall the OS", at least at this point.

But before going any further are my assumptions correct?
 
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GhislainG

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Reading the sentence "It was partitioned automatically" proves the hard disk was connected and configured as the first disk; the results of Diskpart prove it as well. I'd be very surprised the system boots when the hard disk is disconnected.
 
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It did not boot when i disconnected the hard drive so i will have to reinstall windows.

 
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GhislainG

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That's to be expected because no boot partition is available once the hard disk is disconnected.
 
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Yes, I did note the poster's statement re the "automatic partitioning" of his SSD. I could not fathom what "automatic partitioning" even meant and I thought there might be a possibility that he had a viable OS. Obviously Diskpart would not allow him to clean the current disk containing an OS so that in itself would not indicate a dysfunctional OS. However, he did say "my hard drive was completely inaccessible" and that should have told me right off that his installed OS was indeed dysfunctional. My only excuse (flimsy that it is!) is that he referred to a "hard drive" a number of times and for some silly reason I didn't associate it with the SSD (as I should have). In any event you were right and I was wrong.
 
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