2 ssd on one thinkpad need to format "new drive"

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MJDRAKE

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I purchased used msata drive and it has operating system (win 8) on it. currently the only way I can operate this new ssd is on the notebook as second drive. It will not let me format it because operating sys.... I can not even delete other partitions on it. Oh! tried CMD in Admin and disk management neither worked or commands grayed out.
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I broke down and went looking for Linux solution and they had a great disk gparted app that is downloaded ISO so self booting CD. 5 min after all problems gone. thank you all.
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Hey there, MJDRAKE.

What did you try exactly via CMD? Are you sure you are tying to format the secondary storage drive, because there's no reason for you not to be able to delete or format partitions if you haven't booted from that drive?

Basically you can go ahead and try the low level format with DISKPART (via CMD). Here's how to do it:
1. Open CMD (Command Prompt) as administrator.
2. Type diskpart and press "enter"
3. Type list disk and press "enter", you'll see all the storage devices connected to your computer and you should be able to recognize the drive you wish to format, by its size.
4. Type select disk X and press "enter" (where X is the number of the drive you wish to format, so make sure that you've selected the correct one - e.g. if the drive you wish to format is disk 1, type: select disk 1)
5. Type clean and press "enter", then wait for the process to finish.

After you do this, you'd have to initialize the drive before you are able to create and format new partitions. Here's how to do it: How to initialize or write a signature to a secondary hard drive or Solid State drive in Windows.

Hope that helps.
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Thanks, I was not aware of the diskpart command until late last night. But sorry to report it did not work! Even though I booted from my "old SSD". When I followed your (great) instructions it gave me the following "Virtual disk service error: Clean not allowed on the disk containing the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume."
so I back on square one. Thanks!
 
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MJDRAKE

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I broke down and went looking for Linux solution and they had a great disk gparted app that is downloaded ISO so self booting CD. 5 min after all problems gone. thank you all.
 
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