Windows 7 'Windows could not format a partition' when installing

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William Franklin1

I corrupted my main partition so I'm reinstalling Windows 7 from an ISO burned to a flash drive in Rufus. I clicked 'Custom' then the main partition, and saw 'Windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occurred while preparing a partition selected for installation. Error code: 0x80070057'Deleting and recreating the partition, and deleting it without recreating, gave the same error. Running these commands remained at '0 percent':diskpartselect disk 0select partition 2format fs=ntfsHow can I fix this without erasing the recovery partition?

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