DISKPART> create partition primary
Virtual Disk Service error:
There is not enough usable space for this operation.
have you do clean ?
Yeah
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
Disk 0 Online 931 GB 1024 KB
Disk 1 Online 238 GB 238 GB
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> create partition primary
Virtual Disk Service error:
There is not enough usable space for this operation.
What list volume in diskpart says? I think that was proper way.
As I can remember I had the similar situation, and after cleaning I switched to disk management and (surprisingly) created it from there.
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
Volume 0 D DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Partition 50 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 3 NTFS Partition 517 MB Healthy Hidden
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
Disk 0 Online 931 GB 1024 KB
Disk 1 Online 238 GB 0 B
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
Volume 0 D DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Partition 50 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 3 NTFS Partition 517 MB Healthy Hidden
Selected Disk 1:
DISKPART> attribute disk
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
In disk management app:
try doing it in another pc, sometimes it’s just work with other pc.
and rerun this
…otherwise you have to try it with a linux-kinda-rescue disk, where you boot up and try to do a NTFS format from there.
I tried on two other computers - nothing
Okay
… or in windows safe mode. Try also first to delete 1GB partition in diskpart. What’s the output of list partition… I wonder how clean was successful and then it again shows same partitions.
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I’ll try in windows safe mode. And yeah, when clean was successful it shows again same partitions.
I tried, and it still don’t want to be formatted 
try using clean all instead of clean in diskpart.
or
try use linux :
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX status=progress
would that do ?
Yes, clean all as well
Did you try to delete partition with diskpart?
select disk 1
list partition
select partition xxx (1GB)
delete partition
clean all also does not work, later I will try to use linux
Yes ofc, I tried.
If no one else has suggested this, maybe you could utilize a FOSS tool (boot into an ISO like gparted or something like systemrescue that has gparted on it) because I think that you would have to deactivate the LVM partition (unless you used something else like BTRFS when creating the Qubes install) as this is possibly preventing you from succeeding (I learned this one the hard way just like you). LVM partitions can be a pain when you don’t understand this. I’m unsure that Microsoft’s tools would manage this any better than the Anaconda installer does & it is often unclear why things fail after a fresh install turns to a desire to start over but then you cannot due to this issue.
I clearly remember that I had the same problem, same reason (post-Qubes formatting) and that I resolved it in Windows using disk management at the end after diskpart which at some point failed. I remember I successfully deleted LVM partition in disk management after semi-successfull operations with diskpart and was surprised when I saw “unallocated” space instead LVM partition.
At least you can start new Qubes install, this time do not choose LVM and later there shouldn’t be a problem to delete and then format disk.
Same Problem a bit complex situation. I happened to install it on my Primary SSD and unlike above DISKPART wont list the SSD at all.
Here’s the link to my topic, can someone help please : Format SSD - Unable to view disk