Cant delete partion

[[DnA] double]

I had win7 on a regular mechanical hd, put a new ssd into the computer and installed win7 on it. So now I have 2 hd with win7 in the same computer.  Set the boot device to load up into the ssd, and then went to disk management to delete the partition on the mechanical to turn it into a data drive.  The problem is that I cant delete the partition or format it because the computer still thinks its part of the boot and wont let me format a drive that it considers a boot drive.  So the button to format is grayed out.  Ok so then I went to cmd prompt and tried to format it there and the error I got was "Virtual Disk Dervice Error: Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump, or hibernation volume." Not sure where to go from here.  I guess I could disconnect my ssd, boot from the problem drive and then run win installer and delete partition and then just cancel install and plug in the ssd. While i think that might work anyone got a better solution?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Unplug your hdd and see if its boots first. It might have the efi on the hdd still

 

Then if thats ok, id get a linux iso or a windows install disk and delete it from there with no ssd installed(just to be safe.)

[AllTech]

If you are absolutely sure you've selected the right disk and partition inside of diskpart you should be able to delete it with the command "delete partition override"

[[DnA] double]

So i tried the command delete partition override, and I got the message "There are no partitions selected"

in diskpart

diskpart>select disk 3 (which is the right one)

Disk 3 is now the selected disk.

diskpart>delete partition override

There are no partitions selected.

Please select a partition, and try agian.

 

There is only one partition on the hdd. So not sure why it says not correct partition. Btw partition is in NTFS,

 

So I selected the right partition now, partition 1, however im getting the same error as before:

Virtual Disk Service Error:

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

[ARikozuM]

6 minutes ago, [DnA] double said:

So i tried the command delete partition override, and I got the message "There are no partitions selected"

in diskpart

diskpart>select disk 3 (which is the right one)

Disk 3 is now the selected disk.

diskpart>delete partition override

 

There's your issue.

 

You need "select disk" and "select partition".

[AllTech]

8 minutes ago, [DnA] double said:

 

So i tried the command delete partition override, and I got the message "There are no partitions selected"

in diskpart

diskpart>select disk 3 (which is the right one)

Disk 3 is now the selected disk.

diskpart>delete partition override

There are no partitions selected.

 

Once you select the disk you must also select the partition, even if only one exist. You can type list partitions after you select the disk in order to know the partition number to select.

[[DnA] double]

diskpart>select disk 3

disk 3 is now selected disk

diskpart>select partition 1

partition 1 is now the selected partition

dispart>delete partition override

Virtual Disk Service Error:

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

 

Thats where I'm at now

 

[AllTech]

Can you remove the hdd and verify you're able to boot from the ssd. 

[[DnA] double]

I know im booting from the ssd cause when i boot from the hdd totally different home screens, things installed etc. Unplugging the hdd itself is a slight pain, because not sure which hdd in there is the actual one with the os on it. Would probably have to unplug all my hds to figure out which is the right one. Not that i have 20 drives but i currently have 3 internal hdd 1 ssd and 2 externals connected (i know these dont have os on them) . Quite the mismatch.

[AllTech]

10 minutes ago, [DnA] double said:

I know im booting from the ssd cause when i boot from the hdd totally different home screens, things installed etc. Unplugging the hdd itself is a slight pain, because not sure which hdd in there is the actual one with the os on it. Would probably have to unplug all my hds to figure out which is the right one. Not that i have 20 drives but i currently have 3 internal hdd 1 ssd and 2 externals connected (i know these dont have os on them) . Quite the mismatch.

Go to disk management and make sure the win10 partition on the ssd is marked active (right click it and select mark active)

[AllTech]

If that doesn't work:

 

1. Go to folder options and make sure hidden files and Protected operating sytem files are shown.

 

2. Copy and paste bootmgr and the pale yellow Boot folder from Hdd partition to ssd partition. ( You will get a message bcd is in use and can't be copied - skip it and copy the rest)

3. Open an elevated command prompt ( type cmd in start search - when it pops up, rt click and run as admin. )

At the prompt >, type:

bcdedit /export C:\Boot\bcd

It will look like this:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7100]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\System32>bcdedit /export C:\Boot\bcd

press enter , close cmd prompt.

 

4. Go to Disk Management and right click ssd partition - select Mark as Active. 

 

5. Restart.

Ssd is now the "System" partition

[[DnA] double]

UPDATE TIME, but mostly just failing.

 

So thanks to everyone for your tips, unfortunately nothing worked and I just ended up making everything worse.

 

Alltech I tried your above post but could never find an actual bootmgr file on either the ssd or hdd, so I gave up on it.

My next idea was to simply load into windows installer, delete the hdd partition and boot up through the ssd and that worked great.  Finally got rid of the partition and was good to go. Or so I thought.

 

On my next restart, tried to boot to the ssd and it wont do anything, telling me no OS on it. So now I have no way to boot into windows since I just deleted partition on the hdd. Fail 1.

 

So I'm like OK I'll just put windows back on the hdd I just deleted, load up windows, backup my ssd, delete both partitions on the ssd and hdd and start totally fresh.  That went fine, deleted both partitions, got windows installed on the ssd and I'm like "Good to Go". Right up to the point I realized I didn't have any drivers I could access since they were backed up on a hdd that couldn't be read until I put drivers on. Fail 2.

 

So I'm like OK I'll just whip out the trusty laptop, download the drivers, put them on a flash drive and load them up and I should be good to go.  And it was good to go right up to the point I'm installing stuff and even though I'm always very careful about adware, spyware, etc. my computer got hit with some right at the beginning.  Fail 3.

 

So now I'm pissed its time to go to war.  I've already reinstalled windows twice at this point, formatted 3 different drives, one of them twice and now I'm going for broke. I'm deleting windows again and starting fresh again. No reason not to and I'm not letting my computer be infected in the first five minutes of a reinstall.  So I'm backing up some downloads like drivers and what not I didn't get on my laptop since they weren't essential, I'm like "Oh yeah I just got this new Corsair K70 LUX keyboard for myself on Black Friday lets install the software I never got around to putting in and see what its like." I install the software and immediately my keyboard starts doing this crazy wave crap with the LEDS blinding me making it so my life is a living hell. Cant turn it off, can only change the speed or the shape or no LEDs but cant get the damn thing to just stay with solid LEDs and no effects. Fail 4.

 

Well now that I've descended to the 5th level of Hell it can't possibly get any worse.  So to get my keyboard to stop doing the wave crap, I just unplug it, and plug in my old keyboard.  Btw the reason why my old keyboard was so convenient to just swap was for some reason my new Corsair K70 LUX refuses to work during the boot screen not letting me get into the BIOS or ctrl+alt+del or anything. So I've already had to do this about 4 times. Fail 5.

 

Now I'm finally ready to get this done once and for all no more B.S.  It's go time.  So I reinstall windows for the THIRD time, load up, install drivers and I'm like no more problems this time is going to be perfect.  That's when I realized I forgot to backup my firefox folder and bookmark my 600 or so tabs I had open at the time way back when my computer was actually working. Fail 6. (Last time I backed up firefox was over 6 months ago, probably another fail there.)

 

So now I've lost my firefox data, never installing the corsair software again, reinstalled 3 times, deleted all my hdds (except for the storage ones), wasted 4 hours and have to completely set up my computer from scratch.  So I guess what I'm trying to say, and what I'm going to do from now and forever, is if your computer is jankily configured, and is only being held together by some very lucky chances, just leave it. Never touch it. Never try to change anything. If it works leave it alone.  Don't try to fix anything, it may not be perfect but it works and that's what matters.

 

Thanks again to everyone's advice, I completely made everything worse on my own not because of you guys.  If you made this far through my rant (wow I'm impressed) learn from me, when you start slipping you will quickly find yourself going over the edge into the 7th level of hell.  Just let it all be.