The MBR is not located in a partition; it is located at a first sector of the device physical offset 0 , proceeding the first partition. You want to reinstall a new operating system that does not support MBR partition style, like Linux. As covered before, MBR partition supports up to 2 TB disk capacity and you can only create four primary partitions. Your MBR partition table is messed up, missed or compromised.
Please note that if the MBR is deleted or removed, the entire hard drive is rendered inaccessible, as the system has no idea where to access the partitions. Therefore, it is suggested to backup files that you care most before you start. However, to remove MBR, you have more than one solution. As a matter of fact, you can completely wipe the entire hard drive including all existing partitions, hidden partitions and MBR partition table for another use.
To run Diskpart, you need to first open Command Prompt. This will take delete internal hard disk MBR partition for example. Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 10 Search Community member. I opened Device Manager, and it was showing as unallotted and asked me to "initialize the just MBR" of that disk in order to access it.
I did it. Because it was taking a long time, I had a doubt and searched the Internet. Some are saying it is equivalent to reformatting and you cannot recover data even with data recovery software, but some are saying all data will be safe and it was just trying to rewrite MBR to make it accessible! What could have happened to the immense data I had in that drive? This thread is locked.
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Cancel Submit. Hi Vijay. If that fails you'll need to try data recovery. I'd start with Recuva to see if it's going to be easy or hard. You can resize one of your partitions to eliminate it. K0LO , Feb 29, It would be helpful to see a screen shot of how Disk Director views your disk. From your descriptions, I am having a hard time figuring out which are primary and which are logical.
One picture is worth a thousand words Artistar , Mar 1, Artistar: These two posts have explanations for the 7. If I understand your situation, the problem occurs when you attempt to put a logical partition at the beginning of a drive.
That's a no-no for Windows but may be OK for other operating systems. In your second screen shot I believe you could create a primary partition out of the unallocated space at the beginning of the drive and then resize it to include both unallocated spaces. Or you could resize the first logical partition to the left to include one or both unallocated spaces, but if you do this you will still have 7. By the way, this may be a terminology issue, but "merge" and "resize" have completely different meanings in Disk Director.
Resizing will enlarge or shrink a partition whereas merging two partitions will result in the data in one partition being moved into the target partition, followed by a resize. From what you are describing you don't want to merge but rather you want to resize.
Finally, you certainly can zero the first sector or the entire drive after copying off any data that you want to preserve. K0LO , Mar 1, Well, i tried a different partition editor do delete those partitions, and it fixed those problems. After this Disk Director shows unallocated space together 82GB , not separated as before, and creating new logical partitions doesn't create 7.
Now everything works as it should, or better, as it used to.
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