Windows 10: CANT CLEAN INSTALL WIN AFTER CORRECT DISKPART CLEANING!!!! USB ISO WRONG OR ELSE??

After diskpart cleaning of the disk 0 only one, which was succesfull, tried to clean install of windows 10 from usb iso made by Rufus, but cannot format or delete partitions 0 and 1, though it was all cleaned from comand prompt. Keep getting error number...Think something aint right with usb iso file, but dont know what, since it was created exactly as computer suggested when it was firstly not done correctly now changed to MBR, changed to Legacy Mode just as it asked??? it is Acer notebook with only 32GB and 2- 4RAM probably. But it worked ok with Win10 Home edition for a quite a lo

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DISKPART CLEAN

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You will get this error when you are using diskpart clean command on system disk. The system disk contains the Windows operating system files and other critical files, if you are allowed to clean the system disk, all the data and partitions will be gone. That
will result in a lot of errors and chaos. Meanwhile, the delete volume is greyed out in Disk Management. In this case, the new SSD drive may be regarded as the system disk due to the system files, etc.

Using Windows installation disc to clean

If you have the Windows installation disc, you can follow these steps to solve clean is not allowed issue in Windows 7/8/10:

1. Insert the Windows installation disc, then boot from it.

2. Click Repair your computer> Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Command Prompt.

3. Then input the diskpart commands to clean hard disk:

diskpart

list disk

select disk [disknumber]

clean

Diskpart Clean

Then you could create a new partition on the drive to solve this problem.

Reference

https://www.disk-partition.com/articles/virtual...

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on the site before you decide to download and install it.

I hope it helps

 

Diskpart: the clean function fails to clean usb drive

When using the Diskpart function to clean a usb drive, the utility fails to complete the clean function giving the error message that is followed by not being able to access the drive.

I then must do the create partition primary command and that works. From there on I am able to select the partition 1, format in fat32, assign and exit.

I would like to know how to get the Clean command in the Diskpart utility to work properly.

By the way, note that the usb/s that I do this only all check out with regard to having no disk errors and the usb/s do not have a write protect on them.

Thank you for your help in advance.



On 23 Oct 2017, the Microsoft Community Team asked if this inquiry was solved so I am posting here that nobody has responded to this question, except the one post from lacrumb below that suggested I repost in another place, which I did.

The new Fall Creators update went well, but the clean function internal to Diskpart still throws back the unable to access disk message. When I enter the create partition primary, it is created, but again the clean command throws back the same response and
it all starts again, meaning I can create a partition primary and even use the USB thumb drive.

 

Clean Install Workaround for Vista

You may remember this news story on techPowerUp! a couple of days ago relating to the lack of clean installs when using the Upgrade Editions of Vista, which required an old OS to be installed. However, Paul Thurrott has managed to find a workaround for this issue, which ironically lets users do a clean install Vista without any previous version of Windows, albeit a little tedious. Here are the steps:

• Boot from the Windows Vista Upgrade DVD as normal
• When prompted for a product code, leave this blank
• Select the version of Vista you have purchased and let Vista install
• When you boot to your desktop for the first time, run the Vista setup from Windows
• This time enter your product key
• When asked whether you want to do an Upgrade of Custom install, select custom and choose a clean install
• Windows will now install for a second time and you should be able to activate it

Remember, these steps are only advised for use in order to achieve a clean install of Vista, it is only legal to use the upgrade editions if you have previously purchased the appropriate version of Windows.

Source: DailyTech