Windows 10: Diskpart:Clean error

I was on a DEBIAN BUSTER based Linux Distro...as you know that it stores data in ext4 file system....i had two partitions on my 1tb build in hdd hard drive which had mbr...1st partition was of ext 4 file system but the second was of ntfs file system...

Yesterday...i decided to go back to windows...so i inserted the installation media and ran the setup...at the install location page...i was prompted that i had mbr in my disk and the installation media was of gpt and hence it wanted me to convert it to gpt...so i ran the setup again and hit on repair pc and then ran the winpe cmd in which i accessed diskpart then i ran the following commands:

DISKPART> select volume 3

DISKPART> clean

DISKPART> convert GPT

i thought that it might clean the specified volume but it wiped my complete hdd...i had several important memories of my grandmother...grandfather who had passed away in the NTFS partition...please can somebody help me to recover the ntfs partition...please please i i request you all...i plead you all...i have used several data recovery software but they get stuck at sector 549281782

which is in the ext4 partition...

My ntfs partition sector starts from 1024896543

:)

 

DISKPART CLEAN

Hello

I'm Peter F independent Advisor

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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I hope it helps

 

diskpart doesn't show disk

Hey,

I am trying to install Win10 on a mac book air.

However the diskpart does not list the disk even after reformatting the partition as NTFS per suggestion.

read through this solution but cannot move to step 1 listed in the solution by Ivan as that disk doesn't see that partition it was just able to reformat.

Regards

 

Diskpart problems?

Hi again, I tried what you suggested and got the same error message as before. I spoke to a guy on another forum and he suggested typing the "Active" command before doing the Format.
diskpart
list disk
select disk # <-replace # with the actual number for the USB flash drive
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32 quick
He tried it on a Windows 7 PC with the Active command straight after format and he was told to select a partition again...but when selecting Active first before format it was fine.
Im thinking that might be the case on my Windows 10 laptop too but instead of getting a reminder to select a partition I get an error. After the error message If I select a partition and Type Active everything is OK. It seems a bit strange I know!!

Can I ask you though. Is it OK to type the Active command before the Format command or should Active only be typed into Diskpart after the Format has been done?