I screwed up and somehow turned one of my new drives into a System Partition and Disk Management won't let me format it and Win Explorer can't see it.
It's not a real System Partition - how do I make it a normal, friendly, useable disk?
Thanks - rev
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I screwed up and somehow turned one of my new drives into a System Partition and Disk Management won't let me format it and Win Explorer can't see it.
It's not a real System Partition - how do I make it a normal, friendly, useable disk?
Thanks - rev
It most likely has a pagefile on it. Go to Advanced System Settings and clear any pagefile from the drive, and then you should be able to format in Disk Management.
It doesn't show up in Advanced System Settings. Can Windows 7 Setup fix this?
Advanced System Settings, Under performance hit settings.
Advance tab and In Virtual memory hit the change button.
Yeh, it is a long way around to it.
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It doesn't show up in Advanced System Settings.
One answer is to use the Win source disk to format the drive - but don't bale out of setup at that point or the changes will be rolled back. You have to go through the whole installation.
If you've installed the OS a number of times, the system considers the last (most recent) one to be the current C: