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Format hard drive
P have two hard drives as C: 69GB and G 37GB both have an
OS of XP Pro. I want to format my C: drive to use for movie makeing.But when I try to format I receive a message. Windows can not format this drive. Quit any disk utilities or other programes that are useing this drive, and make sure no windows is dispaying the contents of the drive. Then try again. What am I doing wrong. Thanks andy |
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Format hard drive
have you booted up from ur C drive and trying to format the same. hope not.
try booting from some other source and then format the drives. "andy" wrote in message ... P have two hard drives as C: 69GB and G 37GB both have an OS of XP Pro. I want to format my C: drive to use for movie makeing.But when I try to format I receive a message. Windows can not format this drive. Quit any disk utilities or other programes that are useing this drive, and make sure no windows is dispaying the contents of the drive. Then try again. What am I doing wrong. Thanks andy |
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Format hard drive
If not, try safe mode and format the other drive, failing
this pop in your winxp bootable disc follow propms and when it gets to the partition part, chose the partition you want to format (C:?) hit D, then enter, then L - restart the machine and go back into the windows that is installed on the other drives, if you dont want to disk this - put the hard drive you want to format in another computer, as a slave - then format it from that machine and put it back (yeh, i know long winded but it does work) Matthew -----Original Message----- have you booted up from ur C drive and trying to format the same. hope not. try booting from some other source and then format the drives. "andy" wrote in message ... P have two hard drives as C: 69GB and G 37GB both have an OS of XP Pro. I want to format my C: drive to use for movie makeing.But when I try to format I receive a message. Windows can not format this drive. Quit any disk utilities or other programes that are useing this drive, and make sure no windows is dispaying the contents of the drive. Then try again. What am I doing wrong. Thanks andy . |
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"andy" wrote in message
... P have two hard drives as C: 69GB and G 37GB both have an OS of XP Pro. I want to format my C: drive to use for movie makeing.But when I try to format I receive a message. Windows can not format this drive. Quit any disk utilities or other programes that are useing this drive, and make sure no windows is dispaying the contents of the drive. Then try again. What am I doing wrong. Thanks andy 1. Make drive G: the master in a master/slave configuration. 2. Boot to bootable floppy and make drive G: partition active. 3. Boot to OS. 4. Format drive "old" drive C: (which will now have a new drive letter assigned by the OS) Don't forget to backup any personal files! |
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andy wrote:
P have two hard drives as C: 69GB and G 37GB both have an OS of XP Pro. I want to format my C: drive to use for movie makeing.But when I try to format I receive a message. Windows can not format this drive You cannot format the drive that the system is running on, it is like cutting off the branch of the tree that you are sitting on. Nor the one that the initial boot is from. You presumably actually boot into the C: drive and then the dual boot facility is used to load the system on G: Presuming you mean two physical drives and not two partitions on one mechanism What you should be able to do *if* your BIOS will allow the initial boot to be from either drive is to copy the boot files ntldr ntdetect.com and boot.ini over from C: to G: Then set to boot that drive and do so, selecting now the system on it (it will still see the drive letters the same:. that would leave C not in use and able to be formatted -- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit) |
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