In diskpart, when I type "select disk 1", then select partition 1, I get "No partition selected"

Question

In diskpart, when I type select disk 1, then select partition 1, I get

No partition selected

The USB is FAT 32. Basically, I am trying to do set id=af on my flash drive.

Answer 1

Because the partition is already selected. You should see an asterisk * to the left of the listed partition.

Answer 2

I had the same problem with the partition being listed with asterisc (selected) but could not select it and I had the no partition selected problem and after reading the solutions here and in other places I removed the partition with clean and then re created it and made it active and then formatted the drive again in Disk Management. I still do not know yet how to put system on it to make it bootable

I did

DISKPART> clean

to clean the partition... Then I used

DISKPART> create partition primary size=14366

( I got that buy doing 14(GB) *1024=14366 MB) and then I listed the partition

DISKPART> list partition and it listed the partition with asterisk like before and then I just made it active, without selecting it again and it worked

DISKPART> active

then I formatted the partition in the disk management in windows 7 (but I did not get the option of making the partition bootable) and then on checking the status again I got Healthy (Active Primary Partition) I hope this helps

Answer 3

If you select an object for a second time, diskpart still emits a message indicating that the object is selected. Harry's question is valid. What do you get when you select the Flash Drive and then LIST PARTITION?

Here's a transcript of a diskpart session, for reference:

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          596 GB    11 MB
  Disk 1    Online          954 MB      0 B

DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list part

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    Primary            953 MB    64 KB

DISKPART> select part 1

Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> list part

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
* Partition 1    Primary            953 MB    64 KB

DISKPART> sel part 1                             # Second Select Part

Partition 1 is now the selected partition.       # same "object selected" message

DISKPART> detail part

Partition 1
Type  : 0B
Hidden: No
Active: Yes
Offset in Bytes: 65536

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
* Volume 4     E   NEW LABEL    FAT32  Removable    953 MB  Healthy

DISKPART> set ID=AF

DiskPart successfully set the partition ID.

DISKPART> list part

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
* Partition 1    Primary            953 MB    64 KB

DISKPART> detail part

Partition 1
Type  : AF
Hidden: Yes
Active: Yes
Offset in Bytes: 65536

There is no volume associated with this partition.

I hope this is helpful.

Answer 4

I was trying to do something similar so this may help you:

I wanted to select the partition so that I could then delete it. This was necessary so that I could then use the windows version of dd.

I was not able to select the partition with the asterisk. I tried selecting another disk and another partition, but as soon as I selected the target disk again the partition 1 was auto-selected with the aterisk. Since all I wanted to do was delete the partition, I was able to use the clean command within diskpart, so something like this:

diskpart

list disk
select disk 4 
clean

If you then run detail disk you will see that the status has changed to "unusable". I was then able to run my dd command from an image to this sd card.

Answer 5

Do you get the list disk process as Geoff Duke said ? If you don't than I think there might be some problem with your hardware , And then again if you do then try selecting again and check for typing mistakes this happens a lot with me . Also if still nothing happens go to explorer and format directly from there and come back again and try with cmd.