I was using a secondary drive with a Windows 10 installation as a test environment for some programs. After I was done, I wanted to wipe that drive clean and use it for storage. My main boot drive is DISK 0, and when I tried to delete partitions on DISK 1 using diskpart, I kept getting an error that I couldn't delete the primary partition because it was in use, even though it wasn't related to DISK 1. After some research, I found out that I needed to uncheck the 'Automatically manage paging file size' option and set it to 'No paging file' for DISK 1. I did that, but upon rebooting, my computer is going straight to recovery mode. Can anyone help me figure out how to fix this?
2 Answers
Just to add on, if the issue persists after reconnecting Disk 1, definitely boot into that USB. The command prompt in recovery mode might not give you all the options you need to fix the paging file configuration directly. Sometimes the boot issues are tricky. Following those bootrec commands could really help rebuild the boot settings.
It sounds like you may have removed the system-managed paging file that Windows needed for booting. Even though the paging file was on Disk 1, Windows could have placed some boot configurations there. I suggest reconnecting Disk 1 and rebooting. If that works, go ahead and set a new paging file on Disk 0 and then safely clean Disk 1. If you're still having issues, you might need to boot into Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) using a bootable USB. From there, you can run some commands like 'bcdedit' to check your boot entries and use 'bootrec' to repair the boot configuration.
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