Unable to create New partition for Unallocated Space

[TechnoChicken]

Unless that drive is shot in that case you may noy be able to do that

 

[1etherer]

I did that and got the same error.

"windows detected that the efi system partition was formatted as ntfs. format the efi system partition as fat32."

So far I've tried reformatting the 40gb partition as NTFS, I get "windows detected that the efi system partition was formatted as ntfs. format the efi system partition as fat32."
Then I tried reformatting the partition as FAT32, I get the error that I need to format the disk as NTFS to install Windows.

I'm currently in a loop here.

format "all" the partitions you see , not just the 1 partition you want to use.
Please provide screenshots of each step you take, if you do it correctly, you should have the entire disk in windows setup unallocated.

it will create all the partitions needed.

should not need to use 3rd party tools to zero, that is what formatting does but just once (lazy)

 

[carnageX]

format "all" the partitions you see , not just the 1 partition you want to use.
Please provide screenshots of each step you take, if you do it correctly, you should have the entire disk in windows setup unallocated.

it will create all the partitions needed.

should not need to use 3rd party tools to zero, that is what formatting does but just once (lazy)

Formatting doesn't write 0's to the drive - it usually just breaks the partition table, and marks sectors as writable (in regards to HDD's and/or normal formatting at least). This is why after formatting a drive, you can usually recover, as long as you don't write anything else to the drive.

 

[TechnoChicken]

Formatting doesn't write 0's to the drive - it usually just breaks the partition table, and marks sectors as writable (in regards to HDD's and/or normal formatting at least). This is why after formatting a drive, you can usually recover, as long as you don't write anything else to the drive.

That s called a quick format.

 

[carnageX]

That s called a quick format.

Quick vs Full is the same, as far as partition table/"deleting" files goes. Full format just also checks for bad sectors (which is why it takes longer) .

 

[TechnoChicken]

No full format overwrites the data once. Quick just marks the table as writable which is why quick formated partitions are recoverable

 

[carnageX]

No full format overwrites the data once. Quick just marks the table as writable which is why quick formated partitions are recoverable

Nevermind, you're right. It was changed how it worked - my bad.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/disk-recovery/quick-format-vs-full-format.html

 

[1etherer]

whilst we debate , has the OP tried any of the methods lol

 

[ridorii]

LOL

I'm putting everything on hold until I get a hold of another working unit to help backup the files in the 2nd partition.

Thanks for all the help.