Cannot reformat E drive

From: G.I.O. (tfg1_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:26:44 GMT

I need to reformat my E drive but Windows 2000 is giving me an error
"Windows cannot format this drive: quit any disc activities..."

I have nothing else open. I thought perhaps it was Undelete (from
Executive Software) preventing the reformat so I have removed it. Still
the same problem. There is nothing in the recycle bin.

I have reformatted this drive before (NTFS @ 512bytes) and have been
tesitng it for video files but I want to increase the allocation size.

Any suggestions will be grealy appreciated.

Thanks,
George

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