Re: Can't format (erase) hard drive
From: neil (neilp_67_at_hot_mail.com)
Date: 01/16/05
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:36:11 GMT
Try disconnecting the old drive and boot the PC, if you get errors then the
old drive was still being used.
Repost & let us know what happened.
Neil
"HH" <hhhagueREMOVE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I installed a new hard drive recently (C) and made the old hard drive a
> slave (E). I copied the contents of the old drive to the new drive,
> leaving
> the contents on the old drive intact until I could satisfy myself the new
> hard drive was functioning. Now that I have satisfied myself that all is
> well with the new C drive, I tried to format (erase) the old drive E. I
> get
> this error message: "Windows cannot format this drive. Quit any disk
> utilities or other programs that are using this drive, and make sure that
> no
> window is displaying the contents of the drive. Then try formatting
> again."
> In fact, no window was displaying the drive, and I cannot imagine that any
> program or disk utility could be open since I would not have changed the
> location of any program from C to E. But I'm a neophyte on this problem,
> so
> there could be something running in the background of which I am not
> aware.
> I would appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Harlan
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