youthedog Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 So I'm trying to delete my old Win 7 partition so I can install some Autodesk programs, but it won't let me. It gives me this error. Here's what the diskpart and Disk Management screens look like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma# Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 The facepalms... Before we do anything, first of all, screenshot your C and D drives and post it here. If we try and format the D: without taking into account what it has, you could potentially make your computer unbootable. Based on how these partitions are aligned on the drive (assuming you don't have another disk management software), you would be only able to format D: and create another "D:".(I assume you're formatting D and not trying to format C:) First right click on your C: partition and make it 'Active' then you can format the D:\ You will need your Windows 7 disk to fix this seeing as your old partition is probably still marked as the System Partition in the BCD. Restart your computer and boot from your Windows 7 disk. Go to Startup Repair and HOPEFULLY it will fix the BCD properly to point to your current installation C:\. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youthedog Posted December 19, 2012 Author Share Posted December 19, 2012 (edited) If this is what you want, and yes I'm trying to format Local disk and merge the unallocated space for System. This it what it shows when I go to recovery mode. http://cloud.dloaded.com/i/50d106ac710f8.jpg Edited December 19, 2012 by youthedog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma# Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Maybe I should be more explicitly, show the CONTENTS of the C: and D:.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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enigma# Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Yup... you have two system partitions. The old installation is still considered bootable by your BCD but not the primary. You'll have this choice: " Based on how these partitions are aligned on the drive (assuming you don't have another disk management software), you would be only able to format D: and create another "D:".(I assume you're formatting D and not trying to format C:) First right click on your C: partition and make it 'Active' then you can format the D:\ You will need your Windows 7 disk to fix this seeing as your old partition is probably still marked as the System Partition in the BCD. Restart your computer and boot from your Windows 7 disk. Go to Startup Repair and HOPEFULLY it will fix the BCD properly to point to your current installation C:\. " Another possibility is to use a Live-CD to fix your partitions up manually but you'll still have to fix your BCD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youthedog Posted December 19, 2012 Author Share Posted December 19, 2012 I have used Easus before and have it installed. As for the choices, I cannot right click it and make it active, not even in diskpart in cmd. The only "make active" option is for Drive D. Even after I make drive D inactive in diskpart, it won't let me format it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma# Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 You'll need to do this outside of Windows. It appears that Windows is mounting your old drive as active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma# Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 On second thought, you could try format D: /fs:ntfs /q /x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youthedog Posted December 19, 2012 Author Share Posted December 19, 2012 I'll try it once I can get it to boot again, ntldr was missing so I'm following another guide to fix that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma# Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 As I suspected, BCD is fucked because you have your old installation of Windows intact and listed in the boot manager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youthedog Posted December 19, 2012 Author Share Posted December 19, 2012 (edited) As I suspected, BCD is fucked because you have your old installation of Windows intact and listed in the boot manager :/ after following the guide and doing start up repair, it just stops with an underscore in the top left corner. Trying fixmbr and fixboot from the cmd on recovery disk. Edited December 19, 2012 by youthedog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youthedog Posted December 19, 2012 Author Share Posted December 19, 2012 (edited) Now system (drive) won't boot but the old installation will. It is seen as corrupt and unreadable.. Oh well just deleted it :/, time to deal with this old version I guess. Edited December 19, 2012 by youthedog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalLobster Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I think a better solution would be to merge the C and D partitions using gparted live and make a new partition. How did you get your boot and system files to be on different partitions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa John Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 You could also try Unmounting C via BIOS, use the Windows 7 installation disk to install onto D, reboot, and then Remount C and it should boot windows from D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youthedog Posted December 19, 2012 Author Share Posted December 19, 2012 I just deleted it, the only reason I installed it was to fix a CPU problem which apparently fixed it in this version too. Thanks anyways guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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