Re: reformating message

From: John Barnett MVP (freelanceit_at_mvps.org.NOSPAM)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 01:25:35 -0000

John, What are you using the second hard drive for? Are there any operating
systems on the hard drive? What file system are you using NTFS or FAT32? And
how are you trying to format the drive - from control panel/admin
tools/computer management/ disk management or some third party software
method? 

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"John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:B3B94C56-C4F3-4AC8-A84C-687CA6A26F20@microsoft.com...
>I tried to reformat a secondary hard drive and I got this:
>
> "Windows cannot format this drive. Quit any disk utility or other programs
> that are using this drive, and make sure that no window is displaying the
> contents of the drive"
>
> what do I do.

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