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Cant format hardrive :(

  • 04-03-2007 10:03pm
    #1
    raydoranuk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Hi there, can any one please help me! hours ive spent trying to format my secondary hardrive to instal vista, when i try to format i get ( 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.) Can anyone please tell me what to do the drive is empty i erased everything manualy, I cant even put a partition on the drive :(


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  • #2
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    Any Antivirus/ Security programs running to protect the drives by locking them?
    Try going into safe mode and doing it from there or alternatively just do it via the Vista Setup on Boot From CD


  • #3
    cython
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭cython


    Webmonkey wrote:
    Any Antivirus/ Security programs running to protect the drives by locking them?
    Try going into safe mode and doing it from there or alternatively just do it via the Vista Setup on Boot From CD

    I'd be wary about doing this, as installing an OS with a separate disk plugged in, expecially when doing a format as part of the install, can damage the original. There was a thread on this a while back here on boards.


  • #4
    humaxf1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭humaxf1


    if you have access to a second PC, try the following...

    With the drive installed in the current PC, label it 'toformat' within windows explorer. This is so you can easily recognise it. Now, pop the drive into a 2000/XP machine as a slave drive and from windows explorer, format it as NTFS.

    Worth a try. I came across something similar when installing XP Pro on a laptop. When I created a partition for C:\, the format would not start. Said something about windows installation detected, cannot perform format. So, I put it into another XP PC & formatted from windows explorer. No probs after that!!!


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