Wednesday, February 22, 2017

hard drive - Windows 8.1 - Cannot Format Partition as NTFS: "There are no volumes"

I've got two hard drives in a system, one of which (disk 1) is the Windows boot disk, and the other (disk 0) has a partition (partition 1) that I'd like to format with NTFS. However, Disk Management won't let me; the option is greyed out. Diving into diskpart tells me that I cannot format the partition as NTFS because there is no volume selected. When I go to list the volumes to see which one to select, I see that none of them are what I want to format.


DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 1863 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 232 GB 35 GB <-- This is the boot disk
DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Unknown 500 GB 1024 KB <-- Format this one
Partition 2 Unknown 1363 GB 500 GB
DISKPART> select partition 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> format fs=ntfs quick
There is no volume selected.
Please select a volume and try again.
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 System Rese NTFS Partition 350 MB Healthy System
Volume 1 C Root NTFS Partition 116 GB Healthy Boot
DISKPART> detail disk
ST2000DM001-1ER164
Disk ID: {DFD83667-1983-40B6-9EE3-03AFDD902518}
Type : SATA
Status : Online
Path : 1
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#ATA(C01T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
There are no volumes.

Neither of the listed volumes are 500 GB, which is the size of the partition that I want to format.

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