Alright, so I had a Hard Drive get a Boot Error, so I decided to put a new HDD in and I uploaded my OS. Anyway, now when I try to run the other HDD as a slave, sometimes it doesn't read and other times, it'll read, load the OS disc, but it just won't get to the Partition Editor, as I'm trying to delete the partition that has been corrupted and just use it as a second HDD. Any ideas on what to do?
Hey, It would be a good idea to run a manufactures diagnostic on the drive to see if its healthy. If you cant delete a partition in disk management, you can delete at the command shell. Sart>Run Type- diskpart At the DISKPART prompt, type- list disk Pick the partition and remember the # At DISKPART, type- select disk 'x' ('x' is the disk or partition) At DISKPART , type- list partition Remember the partition # to delete. At DISKPART, type- select partition X pick which partition that you want to delete. At the DISKPART prompt, type- delete partition Or you can go here and use delpart...........very fast and easy.......http://www.juliatexas.com/delpart/delpart.htm
Hey, thanks. One thing, though... the computer won't load up with the second HDD (the partition I want to delete). I assume that'll effect any of that working effectively. If not, do tell.
IF you can see the drive in explorer or disk management in windows, the command prompt fix should work. If the drive cant be seen in windows but the bios recognizes it, delpart should work. Either way the diagnostic on the drive should be done first. You dont want to waste time on a failing drive.......good luck.....
Well, the computer won't even load Windows when the drive is connected, so I guess I'll have to give Delpart a try. I would check it in Disk Management, but yeah, computer won't load. Do you think Delpart will work on a USB drive? :\
No, I dont think delpart has usb support. IF the drive is external 3.5, remove it from the enclosure and install in pc and run delpart.
