Re: Formatting a hard drive

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From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 04/30/04


Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:04:37 -0600

Has it been partitioned and formatted?

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"Tom" wrote:
| Hi, Disk Management says the following:
|
| Volume: C (this is the good drive)
| Layout: Partition
| Type: Basic
| File System: FAT32
| Status: Healthy (system)
| Capacity: 7.85GB
| Free space: 19 MB
| % Free: 0%
| Fault tolerance: No
| Overhead: 0%
|
| Volume: E (the hard disk that I can't access)
| Layout: Partition
| Type: Basic
| File System: (this is blank)
| Status: Healthy (active)
| Capacity: 11.87GB
| Free space: 11.87GB
| % Free: 110%
| Fault tolerance: No
| Overhead: 0% 


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