Windows 10: Raw formatted my external

trying ubuntu 15.04 didnt see gparted was an included app.

 

OK, I have fixed this problem, only took around 24 hrs of straight up transferring and editing things. I used Active@ partition to get all the files off of the drive which took since yesterday when I posted it then the hdd wasn't able to be formatted because it was write protected so I used the windows CMD, I ran it in administrator and used the diskpart command followed by the list disk command and if you don't know which disk is yours (like I didn't) because of the fact that I had 2 hdds that were the same size the Active@ program has them listed as their correct drive numbers then I just used the command select disk 6 (or whichever disk is yours) followed by the command attributes disk clear readonly the reason I wrote all this down was not only to recap but in case anyone else has a similar or the same problem they can just look this up. kinda like a "pay it forward" thing. I thank everyone involved in helping me with this and giving me ideas, I will be +repping all of you.

 

ok some people I cant give rep to because it says I need to spread some around before giving again to some of you, sorry but it appears the admins didn't foresee someone helping the same person multiple times.

 

Good for you, Mr. Foxx! Since mine's only an 8 GB Lexar Jump Drive that only has/had a Windows 10 Insider Build on it, I don't think I'll have nearly the problems you had. A format will work just fine. *Smile

I'm a little slow in getting mine done, though, because I just did a clean install of Windows 10 Build 10547 and had to set things up again. I think I'm about ready, though. Gonna finish up and hopefully git er done this evening or in the morning.

 

One rep per person per thread generally works out fine for all. At least that's what I do. I'm agonna hafta give a couple of reps meself! *Smile Thanks for reminding me.

 

just an fyi, if you did a free upgrade to windows 10 from 8 or 7 you have to install the previous OS again in order to get back to your free copy of windows 10. I found that out a few days ago after I installed gnome and it erased my win10. The worst part about mine was the fact that the windows 7 that I purchased was an upgrade copy, when I bought windows 7 it was the only OS I had ever bought and I didnt think there was a difference in upgrade copy and clean install copy (they even costed the same). I had to go find a pirated version of windows vista in order to upgrade back to windows 7 then install all updates and then upgrade to windows 10. It felt like going around the world so I could walk 1 inch.

 

Actually, that shouldn't happen, Fox. When you upgrade to Windows 10 RTM from Windows 7 or 8.1, you're supposed to be able to do a clean install as many times as you want forever. Microsoft supposedly has the "footprint" of your system, which automagically activates Windows 10 clean installs.

 

they dont if you did a hdd wipe, I had to do that because gnome completely erased windows 10

 

Something's wrong, then. It's all over the Internet. I searched "Windows 10 clean install after free upgrade" and found quite a few, from Neowin to Cnet, etc.

 

I asked a microsoft guy to activate it for me and he told me I had to do a full install of 7 to get back to 10.

 

Replacing or wiping a HDD should not affect the activation. Only when you replace the MB. Sometimes it takes a while to re-activate so you just have to wait.

 

the microsoft tech guy told me I had to reinstall.

 

In my experience, Microsoft guys aren't always right. *Smile However you did it, I'm guessing you got it activated? And that's the cat's meow. *Dinesh

 

lmao, yea I did it.

 

Final diagnosis of my Lexar Jump Drive is that it's dead.

I had five gurus all together on Skype trying to help me get it going again, but it was pronounced dead. No biggie though, because it was only an 8 GB one.

What was accomplished was that another person's 64 GB Flash Drive was revived. *Smile For once, it's good to say, "Better him than me." *Smile