Formatted USB and installed windows but cannot reformat drive
Recently ive tried to install windows onto my laptop. I formatted USB and installed windows but cannot reformat drive the drive. I even tried to have bootcamp reformat the drive and it says it cant. I opened disk utility and it cannot do anything to it. I just want my flashdrive working again.
Your USB flash Sandisk is correctly formatted as a FAT disk and called Wininstall when you used Bootcamp Assistant and checked the second check box to download BC drivers.
If you are unable to see the FAT partition which will become NTFS for you Windows installation, that is a different issue.
Have you looked at https://help.apple.com/bootcamp/mac/5.0/help/ ?
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[SOLVED] Formatting and installing windows on another partition
Hello..
I'm planning to reformat my Windows XP partition with GParted and install Windows 7 on it instead.
When I remove the "boot" flag on my /boot partition before doing anything, then format the partition, install Windows 7 on and put the "boot" flag back with GParted live CD, everything should be working fine, shouldn't it?
Or will formating the Windows partition somehow affect Arch (as I'm accessing it with Arch)?
Or will Windows bootloader still overwrite Grub, even if I remove the "boot" flag on it?
Thanks..
Last edited by Psylver (2011-12-01 18:29:42)Thanks.. you were right, but everything worked fine. Took me some time to figure out how to restore Grub as I didn't realize I installed it to a seperate partition.
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