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September 29th, 2015, 08:50 AM
#1
Cannot Reformat HD With Windows 8 ??
Hope I can get some help here. I have a 500gb Seagate HD that had windows 8 installed. I want to reformat the HD for max access. However, I could delete the main portion (C) but there are 4 additional partitions that are greyed out preventing me from deleting them. I used to know how to do this but have forgotten. Any help?
Thanks.......
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September 29th, 2015, 10:00 AM
#2
I forgot to mention that the HD was originally setup by Gateway....
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September 29th, 2015, 10:30 AM
#3
Alas!! I erred again.. The title of the query should have read: A Hard drive with win8 OS will not reformat completely >> sorry about that ..
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September 29th, 2015, 11:54 AM
#4
Is this drive the one you are booting the computer from?
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September 29th, 2015, 12:51 PM
#5
Post a screenshot of Disk Management so that we can see what you are talking about.
What are you using to partition/format the drive? If Disk Management doesn't work, you can try Minitool
http://www.7tutorials.com/how-manage...gement-utility
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-...n-manager.html
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September 29th, 2015, 01:06 PM
#6
Midknyte, I am not sure how to produce a screen shot of the disk management window. However, I am using a pc with windows 7 & using a SATA docking station to do the formatting. As shown in disk management there are 5 partitions: two on the right, two on the left. The main partition in the middle which was the C drive. It deleted ok . The four remaining are: 400mb (recovery) 300mb (recovery) 450mb (Recovery) & 16.gb (recovery) & they all say "healthy"....... Hope this helps. I'll wait for a comment before I venture into the websites you mentioned....
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September 29th, 2015, 01:18 PM
#7
BTW, this http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-...n-manager.html offered "MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition 9.1" but when I try to get it I keep getting bombbarded with wanting me to dl a "download manager file". AVG rejects anything I try to get from this site ??
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September 29th, 2015, 01:42 PM
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September 29th, 2015, 01:44 PM
#9
Do you mean you don't know how to take a screenshot or that you don't know how to attach it?
For a screenshot, you just press ALT+PRNTSCRN and paste into MS Paint (or another image editor).
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September 29th, 2015, 03:07 PM
#10
You know, I don't remember ever having a need to do a "PRNTSCRN" with the built-in app. I do have a program that I use periodically called "Print Screen Deluxe".
Unfortunately I do not have it installed on this pc I'm presently working with.
Anyway, I now have the file [pwfree91] from ur recent posted website. I'll see what I can do with it.
Thanks again Midknyte, as usual, ur always a great help...........Oh, btw, the built in print screen won't work on this win7 pc  (
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September 29th, 2015, 03:49 PM
#11
ALT+PRNTSCRN has been built into Windows for a long time. If you installed another tool, that might be overriding the built-in printscreen. Like I said, you need to paste the image into something like MSPaint; it doesn't create a file automatically.
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September 29th, 2015, 05:23 PM
#12
I'll check out the print screen function later. This Mini Tool Partition Wizard is a pretty neat tool. It is quite simple to use, however it is extremely slow. Been going for a couple hours & only 66% done. I imagine that the upgrade would be faster, but heck, cant quibble over a free-bee.............
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September 29th, 2015, 05:32 PM
#13
It shouldn't be that slow. What did you do exactly? You should have removed all the partitions first, created a new partition, and then formatted.
Are you sure the drive is good? Did you run any diags on it?
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September 29th, 2015, 05:53 PM
#14
No, didn't even think about running a diagn. Let's see: I did a delete on each part. and a wipe partition. don't remember what order. Then I clicked on apply & then it started motating... it is apparently wiping sectors & states 12 of 17 pending operations. There is three blue colored graphs. One is: Total 67% One is: wipe partition disk 49% and the other is: writing data 49%......Maybe I goofed ?
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September 29th, 2015, 05:56 PM
#15
BTW, this is being processed thru a HD docking station via USB. Maybe that's what making it slow??
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