Third Hard drive problem.

I have a 3rd hard drive connected to a USB2 board. It is broken into 2
partitions. I run xpsp2 prof. There is a directory which I cannot access or
delete. I cannot fdisk it either. How would I clean this out so that there
are no files in this partition so that I can reformat it?

"Bullwinkle. J. Moose" wrote in message
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I have a 3rd hard drive connected to a USB2 board. It is broken into 2
partitions. I run xpsp2 prof. There is a directory which I cannot access
or
delete. I cannot fdisk it either. How would I clean this out so that there
are no files in this partition so that I can reformat it?

How did you "fdisk" your drive? There is no fdisk.exe under
WinXP - it's a Win9x command.

I would use the WinXP Storage Manager to delete all partitions
on the problem disk. You can then create new partitions and
format them.

Thanks. I found that out. I ended up by going to the windows xp resource kit
and used the disk management module to reformat the problem drive.

It worked. Thanks for your help.

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote in message
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"Bullwinkle. J. Moose" wrote in message
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I have a 3rd hard drive connected to a USB2 board. It is broken into 2
partitions. I run xpsp2 prof. There is a directory which I cannot access
or
delete. I cannot fdisk it either. How would I clean this out so that
there
are no files in this partition so that I can reformat it?

How did you "fdisk" your drive? There is no fdisk.exe under
WinXP - it's a Win9x command.

I would use the WinXP Storage Manager to delete all partitions
on the problem disk. You can then create new partitions and
format them.