Posted December 14, 2020 I'm trying to format an nvme drive that was already in my system to move windows onto it. I've tried through disk manager, cmd and third party apps; they all give me this error "Format is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume". To my knowledge there are no system files on it as it isnt the boot drive and ive only had games installed on it. Can anyone help me with this please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 14, 2020 Does the drive contain a Recovery or EFI System partition? If so, you'll likely have to format the drive using GParted on a live install of Ubuntu. Make sure to quote me or use @PorkishPig to notify me that you replied! Desktop CPU - Ryzen 9 3900X | Cooler - Noctua NH-D15 | Motherboard - ASUS TUF X570-PLUS | RAM - Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 32GB | Case - Meshify C GPU - RTX 3080 FE | PSU - Straight Power 11 850W Platinum | Storage - 980 PRO 1TB, 960 EVO 500GB, S31 1TB, MX500 500GB | OS - Windows 11 Pro Homelab CPU - Core i5-11400 | Cooler - Noctua NH-U12S | Motherboard - ASRock Z590M-ITX | RAM - G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3600 32GB (2x16) | Case - Node 304 PSU - EVGA B3 650W | Storage - 860 EVO 256GB, Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB, WD Red 4TB (x6 in RAIDZ1 w/ LSI 9207-8i) | OS - TrueNAS Scale (Debian) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 14, 2020 Have you tried formatting it via the Installation media when you get to the point of choosing the disk? That error means the current installation has required files on the drive you're trying to format, which prevents it from being erased. It's the reason it's generally best to remove all other drives when installing the OS as it can often put recovery or system files on other available drives rather than keeping it on one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 14, 2020 Author 1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said: Have you tried formatting it via the Installation media when you get to the point of choosing the disk? That error means the current installation has required files on the drive you're trying to format, which prevents it from being erased. It's the reason it's generally best to remove all other drives when installing the OS as it can often put recovery or system files on other available drives rather than keeping it on one. I'm trying to clone the drive that has windows installed onto this drive so im not doing a fresh install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 14, 2020 Author 2 minutes ago, PorkishPig said: Does the drive contain a Recovery or EFI System partition? If so, you'll likely have to format the drive using GParted on a live install of Ubuntu. The drive only has 1 partition, doesnt have these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 14, 2020 3 minutes ago, BenGill said: I'm trying to clone the drive that has windows installed onto this drive so im not doing a fresh install The drive you're trying to format has required system files, so I'd expect cloning to it to fail as it would involve removing said required files. That said, you can still use a Windows 10 installation media to format it as it's only preventing you from doing so because it's attempting to erase required Windows files from within Windows. If you do though, you could bork the Windows installation. I'd advise a clean install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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