Computer Repair and Network Support Services

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Gary Helm
Information Technology Specialist
204 Hickory Oak Hollow
Cumming, GA 30040

Mon-Fri 9am-6pm
Evenings & Saturday by Appointment

Phone 470-253-0547
Email Gary at GaryHelm.Net

Near Me: Cumming Georgia, Forsyth County GA, Dawsonville GA, Lake Lanier, Free Home GA

DANGER - This process can destroy your computer.

WARNING - This process is for preparing a disk for installing a new operating system

Gary Helm

Diskpart

Diskpart is a one of several command line tools for managing drives.

The proceedure below is to clean and partition a disk when there are problems installing Windows OS to it.

For more information visit
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/windows-commands

  • boot computer to a windows based repair disk/usb
  • select cmd
  • type "diskpart" enter
  • type "list disk" enter

    • DANGER - Before proceeding make certain you select the correct drive.

  • type "select disk #" enter
  • type "clean" enter

    • WARNING - You just made the drive un-usable until it is repaired.

  • type "create partition primary" enter
  • type "list partition" enter
  • type "select partition #" enter
  • type "active" enter
  • type "format fs=ntfs quick" enter
  • type "assign" enter
  • type "exit" enter