Windows 10: Trying to erase system partition from 2nd hard drive (errors)

Now that I have Windows installed on a new SSD, I want to complete erase the old (second) hard drive and have the entire drive available as one drive letter. I tried removing that system partition using diskpart but getting the following error:

Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume.


Can someone help?

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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Error adding a 2nd internal hard drive


Newer systems with UEFI BIOS and hard disks formatted GPT do not use the legacy "Active" partition method for starting Windows. They use the Windows Boot Manager instead. So on your "correct drive" the C partition will not and should not be marked active.

If there is no data on the new (old) hard drive from your son's PC that you need to keep or have not backed up then you could try wiping the hard drive clean. This will also erase any partition flags that ,may be causing your problem.

To do this you can use Diskpart. The commands to type are:

• List Disk > Enter

(Review the disks to determine which disk is the one you want to erase. Be sure!! Note that disks number.)

• select disk # > Enter (where # is the number you KNOW is the correct hard drive)
• clean all > Enter (this starts the wiping process. This can take some time on a large disk. Go make dinner)

After this you will have a blank, unallocated, unformatted hard drive. When you start the system with this hard disk also attached it should go right into Windows (from "correct disk"). You can then use Disk Management to initialize and Format the drive, plus create any partitions.

If you have the same problem with the wiped disk then there is a hardware problem going on. Post back.

 

Partition or multiple hard drives?

As the title suggests. Is it worth installing say a 36GB drive for the OS soley or partitioning an existing larger drive with either 2 or more partitions? I am currently running Vista 32bit and want to try out 64bit and am sick of reformatting the whole drive. Any suggestions?