Questions tagged [diskpart]

Diskpart is a command-line hard disk partitioning utility included in versions of Windows from Windows 2000 onwards

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select partition 1 gives "No partition selected"

I'm trying to fix a USB flash drive to format to the full capacity. When I use diskpart I cannot delete the primary partition. DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- …
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Will diskpart clean destroy existing data?

I am downgrading a laptop from windows 8 to windows 7, but in order to do so I have to use diskpart clean. The disk has several partitions, namely a system partition and a data partition. Will diskpart clean destroy the existing data in the data…
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How can I restore my partition with data

While installing Windows 10 from the Repair Tools command prompt, I ran clean command by mistake on the whole disk, so it becomes a single 465GB partition. Previously, it contained four partitions. How can I recover them with the data intact? I used…
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How can I make my pendrive a Removable Disc again

I created a partition primary in my pendrive to boot and install Windows 8, but now I want to undo this process... when I open My Computer, my pendrive is a Fixed Disc, not a Removable Disc(default)... How can I make my pendrive a Removable Disc…
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Diskpart command does not see my flash drive

I start diskpart.exe from the command line. Then I run list disk command. Is there a way to make it see my flash drive? I am on Win XP.
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Can Not Delete What Isn't There

Over the last week or so I have been trying out external USB blu-ray drives from different manufacturers. After a time they stopped working. None of them worked. Uninstall. Install. Load drivers...nothing. Then I noticed a drive listed under…
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Cleaned Drive through Diskpart, NO BOOT, NO CMD, NOTHING

I bought a desktop and it wasn't reformatted. Step 1: Enter Win7 CD. - Would not let me select SSD - Had error message(forgot now) - Googled it and it instructed me to access CMD in Windows start up, diskpart, select disk, clean, restart,…
John P
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