hdd Formatting error on used bootable HDD

[Samuel Vertex]

Hi,

 

So i just recently received a second hand hard drive, TOSHIBA DT01ACA100. I was on a scrap run and i found this hard drive from my brother's prebuilt computer, and i checked before hand if it worked or not (which it did). So then i plugged it in to my main pc to reformat it, but before i could the option was grayed out in the disk management window.

So then i opted out to 3rd party software and they gave me errors, so then i turned to command prompt and ran DISKPART and executed the CLEAN command and that gave me a virtual disk service error : Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot.

 

So i got the cause of the error, now all i need is a solution to fix it; the thing is i'm not an expert and i don't want to be accidently doing something that is not going to fix my problem so im turning to the forums for help.

Thanks in advance.

[RadiatingLight]

Looked up your error message and stumbled upon a reddit thread advising to "run diskpart clean in recovery mode, as Windows hasn't loaded the necessary error checks yet."

try that.

[Samuel Vertex]

23 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Looked up your error message and stumbled upon a reddit thread advising to "run diskpart clean in recovery mode, as Windows hasn't loaded the necessary error checks yet."

try that.

Thanks for the reply!

I have just tried that but it gave the same error message...

[RadiatingLight]

2 hours ago, Samuel Vertex said:

Thanks for the reply!

I have just tried that but it gave the same error message...

Maybe try a bootable linux thng? idk.

[Samuel Vertex]

Here's an update:

I have worked out the problem and solution, so in short my hard disk was used for pagefile. So when i disabled that and switched pagefile to use my main ssd, so then i cleaned the disk using DISKPART and formatted it making a new volume, ready for use.

The way i worked this out was i used DISKPART and tried to remove the boot partition (because i thought it the boot that was the problem) and gave me a different error message:

"Assigning or removing drive letters on the current boot or pagefile volume is not allowed"

So i tried to go back and look at the pagefile settings and there you have it! Problem solved!

I appreciated your help@RadiatingLight!