Re: Formatting an unreadable hard drive

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From: Richard Jordan (efjay_at_woh.rr.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 01:12:24 -0400

I apologize. I should have given more information.

It is a second drive. I have gone to disk management, but it says the drive
is unreadable.

I went to Run and type "format E:", but it did nothing. I suppose that is
because My Computer does not recognize drive E. It is only shown as an
unreadable drive.

"Harry Ohrn" <harry---@webtree.ca> wrote in message
news:eSQ$CA1rEHA.4032@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Do you have a second drive or second partition?
> Where did the E drive come from?
> What steps have you tried already to format this drive and what errors are
> you seeing?
>
> --
>
> Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
>
>
> "Richard Jordan" <efjay@woh.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:OpdLK60rEHA.2128@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> My system crashed. I finally reinstalled XP Pro over the previous
>> version. I was able to get my computer to work, but with difficulty. I
>> now have an E Drive that is unreadable. How can I reformat the drive?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Richard
>>
>>
>
>
>

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