Questions tagged [diskpart]
Diskpart is a command-line hard disk partitioning utility included in versions of Windows from Windows 2000 onwards
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Unable to format disk: 'The system cannot find the file specified'
I have a USB flash drive, which I may have mucked up, so I used DISKPART's CLEAN to clean it up. I created a simple volume, and tried to format it. (This is all using Windows' disk management.) I was ...
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Recovering a Partially Formatted USB Thumb Drive
I have a USB Thumb Drive that I was going to use to install Windows 7 with. While formatting the drive with the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool it failed leaving my USB drive in an unusable state.
I ...
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How to move the recovery partition on Windows 10?
I upgraded to Windows 10 and a 450Mb Recovery partition was created on my disk.
I would like to extend the system partition but the Recovery partition is in the way.
How can I move the Recovery ...
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How to mount an NTFS partition read-only in Windows?
I feel like this is a really simple and fundamental function that Windows should have, but so far Google has been telling me it isn't possible. How can I mount an NTFS partition read-only in Windows?
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Cannot format USB flash drive, everything claims it's write protected
I have a 4GB HP USB flash drive that I had written a Chromium OS image to with Win32DiskImager. Now I am trying to reformat it but I can't. Everything tells me the disk is write protected. Being a USB ...
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Not able to partition C:\ Drive as per needs in Windows 7
I am trying to partition my c drive into 2 drives. My c drive has 412 GB free of 450 GB. I wish to participate as 30 GB: 382 GB. But when i try to shrink volume (by going through My Computer --> ...
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Is my SONY USB flash drive dead? [duplicate]
I have a following problem: when I plug-in my USB flash drive, it isn't shown in Windows Explorer or recognized by system at all. In device properties, it is shown as:
USB MEMORY BAR
http://...
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List every \Device\Harddiskvolume.?
I've tried Diskpart commands like "list" "volume" (no it's not that at all), "disk" and "partition"; but it still don't work.
\Device\Harddiskvolume0 seems to not be used, since \Device\...
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Are there any Windows programs to resize partitions?
Are there some applications that are embedded in Windows (such as diskpart) to resize partitions?
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How to recover data and partition after diskpart clean
While installing Windows 10 from the Repair Tools command prompt, I ran clean command by mistake on the whole disk, so it becomes a single 465GB partition. Previously, it contained four partitions.
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Extend volume where unallocated space lies ahead of it
I want to extend my volume. However the unallocated space lies ahead of the volume. Is it possible to extend this volume without converting it to a dynamic volume?
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I tried to use ...
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Recover my SD Card
In windows disk mgr I can see this. I have no option to shrink/expand any of the partitions.
Tried to delelete everything by DISKPART, but that's also not working:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### ...
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Undo Diskpart clean
This is a life-destroying moment for me. I have a 2TB External Hard drive, with 2 partitions. The first one is UDF and second one is a Veracrypt-encrypted partition. The drive was GUID -based, and the ...
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How create new partition on an unallocated space using diskpart?
I want to install windows 7 on an unallocated space made by shrinking an extended partition. the problem is that windows setup can't create new partition on unallocated space. how I can create a ...
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Can't format USB disk because volume is offline
I have a USB disk that has gotten bollixed up and for the life of me, I can not reformat it and get back to square one.
I attempted to create an Acronis Survival Kit using a WD Elements 2TB USB disk....
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Format USB Disk Using DiskPart Yields "No volume selected" Error
I use the following diskpart.exe sequence. I want to specify the disk number and then format the disk.
C:\>diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.18362.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
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Get ID of partition in Diskpart
In diskpart, the setid command can "change the partition type".
How can I check what ID was set with setid? There is no command called getid.
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How to undo "remove all dismount" in Diskpart?
I made a boo boo! I executed the following commands in cmd:
diskpart
list volume
select volume 13
remove all dismount
exit
I have one of those dual-slot card readers with one slot for SD and one ...
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Partition does not have a volume
When I run DiskPart, I have a Disk 0 and a Disk 1. On Disk 0 there are 3 partitions. Partition 3 has a size of 238 GB.
When I run List Volume there is not a matching volume with a size of 238 GB.
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Resizing Windows 7 bootcamp partition
I've installed Windows 7 on my Mac using bootcamp but stupidly only allocated it 25gb which isn't enough once I've installed Visual Studio and other stuff.
I was able to shrink the Mac partition ...
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installing 32-bit windows: diskpart convert mbr error
I have an efi-based 64 bit system with win 8 pre-installed. I want to downgrade to 32-bit win 7 and so I booted up a bootable win 7 usb and opened command-prompt with shift+f10. I used convert mbr ...
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Windows 7 migration led to crashdump and hibernate problems
Note: I'm using a Samsung 830 SSD (migrated OS from defunct PC) and other than these two (interrelated?) problems it's working fine. Surprisingly well actually. Motherboard is a ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe.
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Where disk read-only attribute is stored on Windows?
When you set read only attribute on disk or partition with diskpart, is it stored on the disk itself? Some answers here say yes but in my experience it is not saved on the disk. I marked removable USB ...
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If Diskpart says that a disk has no volumes, is the disk empty of data?
So I have a 64 GB SanDisk USB drive whose contents are a complete mystery. When I try to insert it into my computer (Windows 8), it does not appear in My Computer. Diskpart tells me that there are no ...
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W7x86 USB Reinstall; "Setup was unable to create a new system partition" issue
I am running an Acer AspireOne AOD250. Doing a clean reinstall of W7x64 Ultimate. My problem is very similar to this one, except that I am installing from a USB as the Acer AspireOne does not have a ...
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windows no EFI partition
I installed windows 10 using USB in UEFI mode
USB (MBR)
installation target (GPT)
the USB installation media (created on Ubuntu) dual boots Ubuntu and Windows 10 using grub.
menuentry "Windows 10&...
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Remove EFI System Partition & Wipe Drive 0?
Some time ago, installed a bigger SSD (1 TB M.2) to act as my OS boot disk, cloning the original OS-sporting HD (256 GB) onto it and it works fine. Recently, I wanted to try out Linux and installed ...
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Can't boot in Windows 10 2004: black screen after dell logo
Yesterday everything was fine and I haven't change anything in the mean time, but this morning, my computer can't boot anymore. When booting, the dell logo is displayed and the dell line is loading, ...
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Can a disk with bad sectors be trusted after the bad sectors are fixed?
I had a Seagate Expansion 2TB(1,862.64514923095703125GiB) external HDD, about a week and half ago my computer freezes at random intervals, it becomes completely irresponsive to keyboard and mouse ...
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What is the quickest way to Recover an NTFS partition?
I've ran the following on the wrong drive in the diskpart command in windows:
select disk 1
clean
create part pri
What is the quickest way I can recover the old partition in the drive?
It was an ...
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Unable to format 64gb RAW SD card Cyclic Redundancy Check error [duplicate]
I recently purchased a new, Silicon Power high-quality micro-SD card. I used it multiple times as a boot disk for my Raspberry Pi, each time I burned a 4gb disk image and installed the OS, then ...
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USB flash drive not recognisable and causing strange behaviour
I have a USB flash drive (16GB Kingston DataTraveller 100 G3) that stopped working a few months ago. As far as I can remember, all I did was pull it out of the USB port without "safely removing" it. ...
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Recover my SD Card [duplicate]
In windows disk mgr I can see this. I have no option to shrink/expand any of the partitions.
Tried to delelete everything by DISKPART, but that's also not working:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### ...