Diskpart can't clean or partition disk 0 when boot from Ramdisk

[Mark K Vallevand]

I'm booting from Ramdisk and my disk drive is visible in diskpart, but it
won't allow any changes because it thinks disk 0 is the boot device. The
reason I've booting from Ramdisk is to initialize and load disk 0. I need
to clean, partition, assign drive letters, activate using diskpart. Then
format the partitions. Then load the software.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

If you solve previous problem in some "satisfying" way this problem will go
away.

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Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Mark K Vallevand]

No. It doesn't go away. I have a satifactory solution to the other
problem, and diskpart still will not modify disk 0 because it thinks it is
the boot device. How do I convince diskpart that the boot device is the
ramdisk?

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

To this question I don't have exact answer.
I only know that I made it work, but not from TD.

Sorry,
Slobodan

 

[Pieter]

Mark,

I had the same problem. I removed the SystemPartition key from
HKLM\System\Setup. That did the trick.

Pieter

 

[Mark K Vallevand]

Excellent! That did the trick. Thank you very much!