Rob Sherratt
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This is a bit complicated! Prior to installing Windows 8 my computer went through the following "Evolutionary steps"
1. New motherboard fitted
2. Windows XP installed (baseline full install)
3. Windows 7 upgrade installed on a new disk drive, which then became drive C: - I created a dual boot system
it was also possible to boot Windows XP from what then became drive D:
4. Installed Windows 8 upgrade onto drive C: (also created a bootable USB dive with Windows 8 upgrade on it)
5. After installation, deleted the Windows.Old (Windows 7) because was running out of disk space
6. Deleted all files off the Windows XP Drive C:
In terms of hardware ID's the Windows 8 drive C: is hardware ID 0
The Windows XP disk drive D: is hardware ID 2
Now I am trying to "reclaim" the old Windows XP drive and reformat it for general use, I don't want to use it as a system disk.
The system will not let me!! Here is the status from DISKPART:
I can confirm that my computer believes that Drive D: is a system disk and that Drive C: is not.
Now at this point I am lost and would be really grateful for help on what to do next, in order to reclaim my disk D: and use it as a non-system-disk. I guess I need to turn the Windows 7 disk into a system disk first. Or maybe I should re-install Windows 8 in some way, only problem being that I deleted my earlier installation of Windows XP & Windows 7.
1. New motherboard fitted
2. Windows XP installed (baseline full install)
3. Windows 7 upgrade installed on a new disk drive, which then became drive C: - I created a dual boot system
it was also possible to boot Windows XP from what then became drive D:
4. Installed Windows 8 upgrade onto drive C: (also created a bootable USB dive with Windows 8 upgrade on it)
5. After installation, deleted the Windows.Old (Windows 7) because was running out of disk space
6. Deleted all files off the Windows XP Drive C:
In terms of hardware ID's the Windows 8 drive C: is hardware ID 0
The Windows XP disk drive D: is hardware ID 2
Now I am trying to "reclaim" the old Windows XP drive and reformat it for general use, I don't want to use it as a system disk.
The system will not let me!! Here is the status from DISKPART:
DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> detail disk
WDC WD6400AAVS-00G9B1 ATA Device
Disk ID: 4D314D30
Type : ATA
Status : Online
Path : 1
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#ATA(C01T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : Yes
Pagefile Disk : Yes
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : Yes
Clustered Disk : No
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 2 C Windows 7 NTFS Partition 596 GB Healthy Boot
DISKPART> select disk 2
Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> detail disk
WDC WD6400AAVS-00G9B1 ATA Device
Disk ID: EC40EC40
Type : ATA
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#ATA(C00T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 4 D Windows XP NTFS Partition 596 GB Healthy System
DISKPART> select partition 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> inactive
DiskPart marked the current partition as inactive.
DISKPART> clean
Virtual Disk Service error:
Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot,
system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume.
DISKPART>
I can confirm that my computer believes that Drive D: is a system disk and that Drive C: is not.
Now at this point I am lost and would be really grateful for help on what to do next, in order to reclaim my disk D: and use it as a non-system-disk. I guess I need to turn the Windows 7 disk into a system disk first. Or maybe I should re-install Windows 8 in some way, only problem being that I deleted my earlier installation of Windows XP & Windows 7.
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows 8 Pro 64 bit
- CPU
- Core 2 Duo 6600 @ 2.4 Ghz
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4
- Memory
- 4G
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Radeon HD3870 X2
- Sound Card
- Motherboard default
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG L1980U & LG M2762DP
- Screen Resolution
- 1280 x 1024 & 1920 x 1080
- Hard Drives
- 2 x 500 GB
2 x 250 GB
- PSU
- 750 Watt
- Internet Speed
- 0.5 Mbit/s up & 8 Mbit/s down