Crabhunter Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Hi, I have a hard drive that has been partitioned many times by different partition tools including OSX which I believe to be the culprit. At the moment I cannot install Windows 7 or 8 as it says it cannot create a partition or find one. This has happened to me before and in the past I have booted the OSX installer and repartitioned it using MBR instead of GUID, this has always worked in the past. This time it wouldn't work, I then tried GParted, and then disk part using ; Start DISKPART. Type LIST DISK and identify your SSD disk number (from 0 to n disks). Type SELECT DISK <n> where <n> is your SSD disk number. Type CLEAN Type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY Type ACTIVE Type FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK Type ASSIGN None of these have worked Any ideas what I can try next? Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 From a Linux Live CD (example: http://partedmagic.c...ds#.UVdq-RilqC8 a very good one) as root delete everything with dd: http://www.cyberciti...ata-empty-disk/ Then test your hard disk with the testing tool included in Parted Magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Or use testdisk from a CD-RW or flash drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 TestDisk is also included in Parted Magic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 That's where the magic part comes from 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabhunter Posted March 31, 2013 Author Share Posted March 31, 2013 After trying every tool I could find I got it to work by unplugging the other hard drives so that it was the only one. Worked first time after that. There's several hours of my life gone that I won't get back! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 There's several hours of my life gone that I won't get back! If you really love this hobby, there will be countless " hours of your life gone that you won't get back" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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