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

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.

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5 Answers

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

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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

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.

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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.

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.