Delete Clone drive, unallocated and not initialised

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by timbev, Mar 21, 2013.

  1. timbev

    timbev Private E-2

    I recently started having trouble with my Windows 7 slow to boot.
    One of the event logs pointed to a drive problem
    Under disk management I seem to have a clone drive which is marked unallocated and not initialized. I have attached a screenshot. How do i get rid of this? Any helpers?
     

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  2. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    You might try AOMEI Partition Assistant to allocate and format the drive to NTFS. It's freeware and I use it all the time.

    In fact, I used it to partition my two 80GB drives (one internal, one external USB) into four 40GB drives. When I have to do a clean install of Windows (XP Pro), I erase the 40GB "C" drive using a bootable CD version of AOMEI, format and label the drive using the same and reinstall Windows leaving the formatting intact — having the smaller already formatted drive speeds things up considerably.
     
  3. BearPup

    BearPup Private E-2

    A cautionary tale...I had AOMEI installed and it caused my system to crash doing a simple reallocation of drive space. I've used EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition (easeus.com) from then on. And I've heard of other people with similar experiences. EaseUS is another choice to use.

    As far as cloning goes, EaseUS has a program called Todo Backup Free Edition that does a fine job of cloning, simple and straight forward. I use it to clone my System Drive, a larger physical drive to a smaller physical drive (the actual used sectors are equivalent).

    If you need help using these post here and I can assist you.
     
  4. the mekanic

    the mekanic Major Mekanical Geek

    Looking at this it appears you have three hard drives consisting of one SSD and two single terabyte drives. Correct me if I'm wrong.

    Have you tried "Deleting the Volume" from the right click menu?

    And, make sure you back up anything that might be on it before you do.
     
  5. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    I haven't had the problems you describe with AOMEI — I run it from a bootable CD created with Microsoft's AIK.

    EaseUS is, of course, another option — I have all of their freeware. But I prefer Macrium Reflect (also freeware) for my backup — I back up to my "D" drive. I run the restoration from a bootable flash drive also created with Microsoft's AIK.
     

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