I was trying to wipe a drive while connected via StarTech USB drive interface to a working machine, this one. I formatted the drive and then went into diskpart to delete the partitions. I was thinking that after I completely wiped everything, I could boot from the Windows disk again and reinstall from there. Unfortunately, the drive doesn't seem to be getting recognized since I deleted all the partitions, so the windows install freezes after it says "copying files".
Back on this machine, I can SEE the physical disk in diskpart, but I can't create volumes or partitions on it, so I can assign drive letters. Here is what I'm seeing:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 232 GB 0 B
* Disk 1 Online 465 GB 465 GB *
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 E DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 SYSTEM NTFS Partition 199 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 220 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 3 D RECOVERY NTFS Partition 12 GB Healthy
DISKPART> list partition
There are no partitions on this disk to show.
DISKPART>
Question: How do I get a volume created on fixed disk 1 shown above. All the volumes listed on the list are from my main drive in this machine. When I try to create a volume with "CREATE VOLUME SIMPLE" while on the selected drive, I get an error saying I can't create volumes on non-dynamic disks. UGH!
I need to get this thing wiped so it will reinstall Win7 PRO from a DVD, but I think I need to create an NTFS partition first. Any thoughts? Help is greatly appreciated.
LW
Back on this machine, I can SEE the physical disk in diskpart, but I can't create volumes or partitions on it, so I can assign drive letters. Here is what I'm seeing:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 232 GB 0 B
* Disk 1 Online 465 GB 465 GB *
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 E DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 SYSTEM NTFS Partition 199 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 220 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 3 D RECOVERY NTFS Partition 12 GB Healthy
DISKPART> list partition
There are no partitions on this disk to show.
DISKPART>
Question: How do I get a volume created on fixed disk 1 shown above. All the volumes listed on the list are from my main drive in this machine. When I try to create a volume with "CREATE VOLUME SIMPLE" while on the selected drive, I get an error saying I can't create volumes on non-dynamic disks. UGH!
I need to get this thing wiped so it will reinstall Win7 PRO from a DVD, but I think I need to create an NTFS partition first. Any thoughts? Help is greatly appreciated.
LW
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