Re: Slave hard drive

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The problem is NTFS and DOS related.

Just go into disk management delete your partition.

Then create a new primary partition and format it. If it won't allow
you to do anything with the disk there are format utilities avalible.

I like this one...
http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Good Luck... Windows rarely lets go of things...

-Randy



Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
Something is using it. You can do a ctl-atl-del and see what is in the
process list that might use it. Go to the start run and do msconfig and
turn off stuff (note what you turn off) and see if that helps. On FAT32
there shouldn't be anything.

If you are sure nothing useful is using the drive then do the conversion
anyway.


RoseW wrote:

In news:eq2GKCmlGHA.2344@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Brett I. Holcomb <brettholcomb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
| Go to a command prompt and do help convert. If files are in use on
| the drive you want to convert it will convert them at the next boot.
|
| I'm not sure what was meant by the comment about problems with having
| both as NTFS. I've run all my systems that way since Win2K in that
| all my drives are NTFS.
|
|
| RoseW wrote:

Brett I. Holcomb <brettholcomb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
| Go to a command prompt and do help convert. If files are in use on
| the drive you want to convert it will convert them at the next boot.

This is an unused drive with old program files, no Windows present and I
assume no registry. It seems strange to me that files would be active.
I'm not acessing that drive.
This is the exact message that appears if I use the Disk Management menu
command FORMAT
'he Volume Old C Drive(D:) Primary partition is currently in use. To
force the format of this volume, click Yes.
Warning: Forcing a format might cause unexpected errors in the
application that is using this volume. Do you want to continue?'
Who knows what application is using, I sure cannot find a trail.
Rose

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