Getting rid of pooled storage

[etienne_marais]

Bought a new 1TB 7200rpm hard disk and installed it, for some idiotic reason added it to a storage pool in storage setting which formatted and partitioned the hard disk. Due to size limitation of SSD (128GB) I decided to make it my primary hard disk instead (want to install Path of Exile which only installs on C drive). I tried to make a system image and restore it to the new hard disk but it failed because the SSD image is in BIOS mode and the new hard disk now in UEFI (GPT) mode. I then got some info of the net how to retire the disk and change from UEFI to MBR (BIOS mode). This did not work.

I then tried to install windows onto the new hard disk from installer flash disk rather than from restoring the system image but it complains that the partitions are not suitable.

There are two partitions, one allocates as UEFI something and the bulk of the space on the second. I managed to delete the second partition using Disk Management but the first can not be deleted. I tried FDISK on linux, pressing p shows 2 partitions but when you press d it says no partitions have been defined yet. Creating a new partition fails with permission denied.

For God sake, how do I get rid of the partitions and basically 'reset to factory mode' ???

 

[minkukel]

Bought a new 1TB 7200rpm hard disk and installed it, for some idiotic reason added it to a storage pool in storage setting which formatted and partitioned the hard disk. Due to size limitation of SSD (128GB) I decided to make it my primary hard disk instead (want to install Path of Exile which only installs on C drive). I tried to make a system image and restore it to the new hard disk but it failed because the SSD image is in BIOS mode and the new hard disk now in UEFI (GPT) mode. I then got some info of the net how to retire the disk and change from UEFI to MBR (BIOS mode). This did not work.

I then tried to install windows onto the new hard disk from installer flash disk rather than from restoring the system image but it complains that the partitions are not suitable.

There are two partitions, one allocates as UEFI something and the bulk of the space on the second. I managed to delete the second partition using Disk Management but the first can not be deleted. I tried FDISK on linux, pressing p shows 2 partitions but when you press d it says no partitions have been defined yet. Creating a new partition fails with permission denied.

For God sake, how do I get rid of the partitions and basically 'reset to factory mode' ???

Try gparted on Linux

 

[etienne_marais]

Bought a new 1TB 7200rpm hard disk and installed it, for some idiotic reason added it to a storage pool in storage setting which formatted and partitioned the hard disk. Due to size limitation of SSD (128GB) I decided to make it my primary hard disk instead (want to install Path of Exile which only installs on C drive). I tried to make a system image and restore it to the new hard disk but it failed because the SSD image is in BIOS mode and the new hard disk now in UEFI (GPT) mode. I then got some info of the net how to retire the disk and change from UEFI to MBR (BIOS mode). This did not work.

I then tried to install windows onto the new hard disk from installer flash disk rather than from restoring the system image but it complains that the partitions are not suitable.

There are two partitions, one allocates as UEFI something and the bulk of the space on the second. I managed to delete the second partition using Disk Management but the first can not be deleted. I tried FDISK on linux, pressing p shows 2 partitions but when you press d it says no partitions have been defined yet. Creating a new partition fails with permission denied.

For God sake, how do I get rid of the partitions and basically 'reset to factory mode' ???

urgh, nevermind, I see there is a way to install path of exile on a different drive

In the current installer, the setting is hidden. When you first open it, before accepting the EULA and clicking Install, there is an Options button next to Install. This is where you can find the settings now.

 

[ponder]

There are two partitions, one allocates as UEFI something and the bulk of the space on the second. I managed to delete the second partition using Disk Management but the first can not be deleted. I tried FDISK on linux, pressing p shows 2 partitions but when you press d it says no partitions have been defined yet. Creating a new partition fails with permission denied.

I had this very issue just yesterday with a linux liveusb I needed to wipe and format as fat32. In win10 run 'cmd' as admin and use diskpart to delete the partition(s). Once deleted you can use disk management again. gparted on a linux pc will also work if you have that.