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jdmilion
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i just plugged in my secondary 1tb 2.5" Hard Drive i got from my old dell laptop, and i am in the conputer management and when i click on the drive and right click an hit format it says "wibdows cannot format the system partition on the disk"

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Try booting linux off a flash drive or something then format it on there.

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go to the partition manger in windows, delete all partitions, make a new partition, then format.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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I just did something and i can see it now, but it only says it has 349mb total and 86 of that free?

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go to the partition manger in windows, delete all partitions, make a new partition, then format.

It isnt even showing up on my conputer management tab

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It isnt even showing up on my conputer management tab

 

looks like this:

windows7-disk-managment.gif

 

if it doesnt show up there you don't have it plugged in right or it is a faulty drive.

make sure you have both sata data and sata power plugged into it.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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looks like this:

windows7-disk-managment.gif

if it doesnt show up there you don't have it plugged in right or it is a faulty drive.

make sure you have both sata data and sata power plugged into it.

Oh it had two of those but they were both purple

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Oh it had two of those but they were both purple

okay, what do they say, one is your main drive the other is the 1.5TB right?

it lists the partitions of each right? do the partitions on the 1.5TB say unallocated?

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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okay, what do they say, one is your main drive the other is the 1.5TB right?

it lists the partitions of each right? do the partitions on the 1.5TB say unallocated?

Im just gonna buy a new one haha

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Im just gonna buy a new one haha

... that's a terrible mentality bro.

 

i guess when you take that one back try to get them to format it for you before you try to trade it in.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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i just plugged in my secondary 1tb 2.5" Hard Drive i got from my old dell laptop, and i am in the conputer management and when i click on the drive and right click an hit format it says "wibdows cannot format the system partition on the disk"

 

 

Hey jdmilion,
 
What is the drive's brand/model? Can you see it properly in BIOS and device manager? 
If the drive has problems with the partition table and refuses to format, you can check if it's not set as a dynamic drive. Another option is to perform a low level format or write zeros to the drive to delete anything that might prevent it to format properly. :) Do have in mind that this erases all data from it!
 
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