select partition 1 gives "No partition selected"

Question

I'm trying to fix a USB flash drive to format to the full capacity. When I use diskpart I cannot delete the primary partition.

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
--------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
Disk 0    Online          465 GB      0 B        *
Disk 1    Online           18 GB  1024 KB        *
Disk 2    Online         7720 MB      0 B

DISKPART> select disk 2

Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list partition

Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
-------------  ----------------  -------  -------
* Partition 1    Primary             24 MB      0 B

Although diskpart shows that Partition 1 is selected by the asterisk I cannot delete the partition.

DISKPART> delete partition

There are no partitions selected.
Please select a partition, and try again.

So I try to select the partition and this is where I am having trouble.

DISKPART> select partition 1

There is no partition selected.

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 11 '18 at 14:02

11

I had the same problem which I solved by re-formatting with diskpart:

list disk
select disk X*
clean
create partition primary
format fs=fat32 unit=64k
list partition
active
exit

* Where X is your USB Disk/SD Card

answered Oct 11 '18 at 14:02

Marc

413

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '14 at 17:32

Windows tend to act weird around USB pendrives. It tends to helpfully recognize only a single partition where as all(?) other OS's seems to recognize it as mass storage with the ability for multiple partitions.

Thus I would suggest either:

using an other OS to delete the partition
or using diskparts clean command to completely wipe the disk partition table.
Make very sure you selected the right disk before using this command.

select partition 1 gives "No partition selected"

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