Reformatting old OS drive

[Kd4lif3]

 I pulled an old 1tb disk out of my old laptop and I have already taken all of the important stuff off of it. I got to the windows disk management page but I don't have the option to reformat the disk. Also, there are other partitions besides the primary that I don't need anymore because it is no longer an os drive but they can't seem to be worked with at all. 

The Disk 1 is the one imm trying to wipe. 

 

[LienusLateTips]

So?

 

I don't see any text

[doomsriker]

What version of Windows are you useing?

[Master Disaster]

Run CMD as Admin

Diskpart

Select Disk 1

Clean

Exit

 

Then format as normal

[Kd4lif3]

10 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Run CMD as Admin

Diskpart

Select Disk 1

Clean

Exit

 

Then format as normal

[Master Disaster]

2 minutes ago, Kd4lif3 said:

Did you boot from the drive you're trying to format? If so reboot and boot from your other drive before following these steps.

 

MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THE DRIVE IS STILL DISK 1 BEFORE YOU FORMAT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kd4lif3]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Did you boot from the drive you're trying to format? If so reboot and boot from your other drive before following these steps.

 

MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THE DRIVE IS STILL DISK 1 BEFORE YOU FORMAT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no, I did not boot from it and yes it is still disk 1

[Master Disaster]

Just now, Kd4lif3 said:

no, I did not boot from it and yes it is still disk 1

You did, according to the screenshot Disk 1 is currently the boot drive and contains the Windows partition that's in use.

 

Reboot, boot from your 120GB then try to format again.

[Kd4lif3]

3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

You did, according to the screenshot Disk 1 is currently the boot drive and contains the Windows partition that's in use.

 

Reboot, boot from your 120GB then try to format again.

 

that's strange. I have already deleted a bunch of windows stuff off of it that would have normally been running had I been booted on that drive. I restarted regardless and I still have the same issue. i made sure my adata SSD was at the top of boot order and no luck.

[Kd4lif3]

25 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

You did, according to the screenshot Disk 1 is currently the boot drive and contains the Windows partition that's in use.

 

Reboot, boot from your 120GB then try to format again.

imm confused. Is there a chance that a background program is running off of that drive and screwing things over

 

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, Kd4lif3 said:

imm confused. Is there a chance that a background program is running off of that drive and screwing things over

 

It's possible that Windows is using the page file from your second drive but other than that I'm not sure.

 

The guaranteed method is get a boot CD or Linux Live disc and do the format outside of Windows.

[Kd4lif3]

4 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

It's possible that Windows is using the page file from your second drive but other than that I'm not sure.

 

The guaranteed method is get a boot CD or Linux Live disc and do the format outside of Windows.

Ya, I don't think I can do either of those rn. Is there anything else I can try. And also, how can you tell what device I am booted into from the screenshot.

[Master Disaster]

35 minutes ago, Kd4lif3 said:

Ya, I don't think I can do either of those rn. Is there anything else I can try. And also, how can you tell what device I am booted into from the screenshot.

Disable Windows pagefile and try again....

 

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-performance-tweak,review-32203-4.html

 

If you look at the first screenshot it tells you that Drive D on Disk 1 is being used to store a pagefile (It says Pagefile below the partition). Your boot drive is shown as Drive C on Disk 0 (It says Boot below the partition).