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Posted: November 4, 2009 06:42 pm  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
      IRC Nickname: leecable Group: Banned Posts: 1938 Member No.: 410 Joined: April 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 178    | ok, need a genious. Basically, 250gb HD, partitioned in 2. Vista on primary drive ©. So I installed 7, onto D, to make sure it worked, then I planned on formatting c. But it wont let me...Just says windows wont let me do this. I trying CMD prompt, and closing explorer. But it just refuses, and says access denied, and system partitiion is not allowed to be formatted...HELP Just tried partition manager in windows 7. Still says other partition is primary. Which is why I cant delete, I also cannot delete the partition. FML --------------------    | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 4, 2009 07:40 pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: DG_Keanu Group: Council Posts: 4782 Member No.: 2033 Joined: August 25, 2009 Total Events Attended: 173 | As far as I know D is a CD/DVD drive but whatever, OK. From my experience, you need to set D as the primary partition. To do this, on the command prompt run DISKPART and: "Select disk/partition #" (With # being the partition or disk number of drive D, whichever it is) eg. if C was disk 0 and D was disk 1, you'd do "select disk 0" Once you have that selected type "Active" That sets the selected disk/partition to be the system partition. Then restart and when you boot up you should boot from Windows 7 or whatever OS is installed on the active disk. Then feel free to do whatever you want with C. Worked for me. --------------------  [05:42] <+WG_Keanu> I think I got a semi just looking at the pic [05:42] <%kat> same | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 4, 2009 07:45 pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Dallar Group: Event Leader Posts: 1899 Member No.: 1957 Joined: July 16, 2009 Total Events Attended: 137 | A little offtopic.. Why would you want to OS's on your computer? --------------------  Click me if you need cheering up - I guarantee happiness will blossom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 4, 2009 07:54 pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: DG_Keanu Group: Council Posts: 4782 Member No.: 2033 Joined: August 25, 2009 Total Events Attended: 173 |
He doesn't, formatting C will get rid of Vista leaving him with only Windows 7 and a free hard drive/partition Btw where did you get your Windows 7 and for how much? Cause I desperately need a new OS  -------------------- [05:42] <+WG_Keanu> I think I got a semi just looking at the pic [05:42] <%kat> same | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 4, 2009 09:29 pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Lefty Group: Emeritus Posts: 3340 Member No.: 1055 Joined: June 30, 2008 Total Events Attended: 211 |
There are a few ways to get 7... Buy it legitimately for about $180 and be able to re-use the install. Buy the system builders version for about $120 and only be able to use the install once. Use a college e-mail address and get a version of Professional for $30. Find a way to get the Beta/RC (I don't know which one) and use the trial key and a command to run it for 120 days for free. (This is what Darth is doing) Get lucky and find a good torrent of it. --------------------      | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 4, 2009 09:36 pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: [JC] Group: Emeritus Posts: 3320 Member No.: 23 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 147 |
RC is untill March 2010, at which point it begins restarting every 2 hours. I *think* they still give out free Key's for it too, but yeah, they stopped allowing you to download it months ago. In response to Dallar, it's fairly common to run multiple OS' these days, I dual boot Vista and Win 7 RC at the moment and plan to change to Win7 & XP over summer. Some software runs allot better (or not at all) on some operating ystems which is a good excuse to have dual/triple/quad operating systems (my mate runs XP, Win 7 & 2 versions of linux, no idea why lol)  --------------------  Old awards wat Most Mature & Most Honourable Most Dedicated|IRC Freak|Best Emeritus Placeholder lolz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 4, 2009 09:46 pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Mike|Sonix Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1483 Member No.: 13 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 103 | Did you try using a windows install disk? If yes and it still didn't work.. try getting at a linux install disk (or at least the linux partition manager.. not sure how you can get the manager without the install disk though). The linux partition manager worked great compared to windows, I could edit/delete/resize partitions etc.. it was awesome, and worked with little problems. --------------------   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 5, 2009 01:50 am | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | Use the information at this link: http://lifehacker.com/292972/partition-and...ystem-rescue-cd It's a great package of Linux tools that boot from a live-cd. gParted is the tool you'll want to use. I've relied on it many times to partition, repartition, and set up any sort of formatting. There's step by step instructions on how to use it. --------------------   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 5, 2009 04:52 am | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Plano|Adam Group: Emeritus Posts: 1449 Member No.: 228 Joined: February 13, 2008 Total Events Attended: 107 | idunno. --------------------  "If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 5, 2009 10:20 am | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Ranma344 Group: Emeritus Posts: 759 Member No.: 78 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 24 |
Drive letters are automatically assigned to the media in the order that is was installed, therefore no drive letter is assigned to any certain media type, although there are some standards. As for formatting the Hard Disk... The computer should not be logged into windows at the time of doing this, I am getting from what you said.. that you were.. Instead there is a formatting option on the disk itself, when asked to pick your partition select the one you want to format, and if the option does not appear instantly, look for a button labeled along the lines of more options. There you should be able to easily format the drive... --------------------  R.I.P. Lucy ! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 5, 2009 03:22 pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Raptor Group: Guest Posts: 40 Member No.: 2113 Joined: October 30, 2009 Total Events Attended: 2 | format that partition using linux it barley says you can't do stuff and if it does unmount it and remount it was a writable device (this worked for me when i was formatting a "read only" thumb drive) --------------------   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 5, 2009 05:17 pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Groedius Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1556 Member No.: 99 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 256 |
Also if you want to get vista check out if your college / University is a part of the MSNDAA its the MSND academic alliance if so you can DL windows 7 and other stuff for free as well as getting MS office 07 for 30 quid its top shit tbh lol. --------------------   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: November 5, 2009 11:10 pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Ranma344 Group: Emeritus Posts: 759 Member No.: 78 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 24 |
My college fronted the entire cost, so I got it free. -------------------- R.I.P. Lucy ! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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