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By Lee on 04/11/2009
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
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
By WG_Keanu on 04/11/2009
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.
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.
By Dallar on 04/11/2009
A little offtopic.. Why would you want to OS's on your computer?
By WG_Keanu on 04/11/2009
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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
By Nick on 04/11/2009
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Btw where did you get your Windows 7 and for how much? Cause I desperately need a new OS 
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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.
By JC on 04/11/2009
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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. |
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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)
By Sonixpber on 04/11/2009
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.
By Georgio9 on 05/11/2009
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.
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.
By Planolocal on 05/11/2009
idunno.
By Ranma344 on 05/11/2009
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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. |
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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...
By No Raptors on 05/11/2009
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)
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)
By Groedius on 05/11/2009
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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. |
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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.
By Ranma344 on 05/11/2009
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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. |
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My college fronted the entire cost, so I got it free.
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