[RESOLVED] How do I get rid of a System Partition

[Reverend]

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

[SuperSparks]

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.

[Reverend]

It doesn't show up in Advanced System Settings. Can Windows 7 Setup fix this?

[Train]

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.

[Reverend]

Train:

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: