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 02:30:41 -0400

Since the drive is unreadable, it will not let me partition it. I am going
to back up what items I really need and reformat everything and start over.
There comes a point when that is all that is left.

Thanks for the help. I appreciate your effort and thoughts.

"Harry Ohrn" <harry---@webtree.ca> wrote in message
news:O5gSxm1rEHA.1712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Have you tried to partition the drive from Disk Management? A drive must
> be partitioned before it can be formatted.
>
> --
>
> Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
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> "Richard Jordan" <efjay@woh.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:OMPemD1rEHA.2136@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>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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