Re: "The disk in drive G cannot be formatted" "Windows was unable to complete the format"

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Whoa...what does your new 320GB hard disk have to do with some unexplained 60GB hard disk?

Are you trying to erase an internal hard disk that you have installed in your computer? Go to the website of the disk manufacturer and download their free low-level formatting program.

[And make sure you're erasing the correct disk. Don't laugh - bad things happen.]
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

rsl18@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
We bought a new 320 GB internal drive and installed WinXP Pro on it. A previous user of a 60 GB hard drive seems to have partitioned it into two partitions of approx. 30 GB each. Drive letters are F and G. We reformatted Logical drive F: NTFS without a problem. All attempts to format G: fail. It is not possible to open G:. What we want to do is reformat the entire 60GB physical drive, as a single partition.

I have lost my notes on the navigation path to get to "Disk Management" but when I got there, F: was identified as NTFS and "healthy" but G had no File System type shown, although it was also called "healthy."

Please remind me of how to navigate to the Disk Management utility. Getting there will not enable me to format G, as my attempts have failed completely, but I want to know for future maintenance.

Please tell me how I can force the operating system to delete both partitions and reformat the entire 60GB.







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