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[Eastman51]

1 minute ago, STRESSMASTER said:

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and you just want windows on E: gone right?
did you want anything from user profile at all?

if not just delete

programs

programs (x86)

windows

users

 

you will have to take root permissions from all files/folder to delete everything in those folders

the mobo could still try to boot to the E drive though. Thats the problem.

[STRESSMASTER]

9 minutes ago, sophiej.11 said:

if you dont understand what im saying: 

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can you scrnshot diskmanager? just like @Eastman51 did

[sophiej.11]

9 minutes ago, STRESSMASTER said:

can you scrnshot diskmanager? just like @Eastman51 did

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[Eastman51]

8 minutes ago, sophiej.11 said:

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Yea, it would be best to use diskpart and clean. There's 2 UEFI partitions, which the motherboard will see as 2 OS. And 1 of those obviously won't have an OS to actually boot to if you just delete files off of it.  You don't HAVE to clean the drive, but if you don't it might get annoying if your PC boots to that UEFI partition.

 

here's a prntscrn of what your CMD would look like (didn't crop it, but whatever). The 465GB is my SSD boot drive, and the 931GB is my extra HDD. list disk looks so small on my laptop, lmao

[sophiej.11]

On 10/30/2018 at 8:33 PM, Eastman51 said:

Yea, it would be best to use diskpart and clean. There's 2 UEFI partitions, which the motherboard will see as 2 OS. And 1 of those obviously won't have an OS to actually boot to if you just delete files off of it.  You don't HAVE to clean the drive, but if you don't it might get annoying if your PC boots to that UEFI partition.

 

here's a prntscrn of what your CMD would look like (didn't crop it, but whatever). The 465GB is my SSD boot drive, and the 931GB is my extra HDD. list disk looks so small on my laptop, lmao

sorry for the late reply been busy!

alright so i did diskpart in cmd and im confused on what i do now. ive cleaned the 3TB hard drive however i have no idea what to do now.

[Eastman51]

1 hour ago, sophiej.11 said:

sorry for the late reply been busy!

alright so i did diskpart in cmd and im confused on what i do now. ive cleaned the 3TB hard drive however i have no idea what to do now.

Once you've cleaned the disk, it shows up as unallocated space in Disk Management, which is what you see in this screenshot. In Disk Management, right click on the unallocated drive and it should come up with a list where one of the options will be "format" or "partition." Select this option and just keep clicking next for the most part (you can change the space to allocate if you want multiple partitions, and there's an option to name the volume as well). After that you should be able to see the drive in file explorer and save data to the disk. 

 

If you have any questions about what to do, attach a screenshot and I'll help you through it. (I am at work so I may not be able to respond right away).

[sophiej.11]

9 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

Once you've cleaned the disk, it shows up as unallocated space in Disk Management, which is what you see in this screenshot. In Disk Management, right click on the unallocated drive and it should come up with a list where one of the options will be "format" or "partition." Select this option and just keep clicking next for the most part (you can change the space to allocate if you want multiple partitions, and there's an option to name the volume as well). After that you should be able to see the drive in file explorer and save data to the disk. 

  

If you have any questions about what to do, attach a screenshot and I'll help you through it. (I am at work so I may not be able to respond right away).

okay so i did right click the drive and i cant see any of those options there. do you have to go through new simple volume or? 

[Eastman51]

6 minutes ago, sophiej.11 said:

okay so i did right click the drive and i cant see any of those options there. do you have to go through new simple volume or? 

Yes, new simple volume. 

[sophiej.11]

8 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

Yes, new simple volume. 

alright so im on format partition. do i change these settings or not, and to save me from another message (and you replying again); is there anything else that i need to do after these changes have been accepted?

[Eastman51]

6 hours ago, sophiej.11 said:

alright so im on format partition. do i change these settings or not, and to save me from another message (and you replying again); is there anything else that i need to do after these changes have been accepted?

You can change the name by typing the "Volume Label:" box. Other than that, you can leave it all as is. There shouldn't really be much after that, if there is just leave at default probably. (haven't partitioned a drive in a while, lol). Quick format is good if you don't want to wait for a long time before you can use the drive (full format basically destroys all data on the drive, instead of just telling Windows its allowed to overwrite the space).

 

Edit: sorry for not getting back to you right away.

[sophiej.11]

17 hours ago, Eastman51 said:

You can change the name by typing the "Volume Label:" box. Other than that, you can leave it all as is. There shouldn't really be much after that, if there is just leave at default probably. (haven't partitioned a drive in a while, lol). Quick format is good if you don't want to wait for a long time before you can use the drive (full format basically destroys all data on the drive, instead of just telling Windows its allowed to overwrite the space).

 

Edit: sorry for not getting back to you right away.

completely broke. idk what to do. 

[Eastman51]

42 minutes ago, sophiej.11 said:

completely broke. idk what to do. 

Get another computer and create a bootable Windows ISO  (USB or DVD) and run the recovery tools. It should repair your installation.

 

But you can try the built in recovery tools first, it says on the screen there to press "F1 to enter recovery environment"

 

Edit: You can try to reinstall Windows over the current installation with the USB/DVD. There should be an "upgrade" option that will only touch Windows files.

[sophiej.11]

@Eastman51 tried to create an ISO but laptop keeps failing it even though i’ve gone through the registries trying to turn virus scan off. (virus scan failed error). 

[Eastman51]

3 hours ago, sophiej.11 said:

@Eastman51 tried to create an ISO but laptop keeps failing it even though i’ve gone through the registries trying to turn virus scan off. (virus scan failed error). 

Weird. Maybe try a different computer for the ISO? 

[sophiej.11]

got the windows 10 media creation tool on my a USB however whenever i try to boot off this USB it does not work whatsoever. 

[sophiej.11]

2 hours ago, sophiej.11 said:

got the windows 10 media creation tool on my a USB however whenever i try to boot off this USB it does not work whatsoever. 

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just downloaded the actual windows 10 iso and same problem.