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Offline jon996

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« on: December 31, 2003, 13:50 »
Hiyaaa

i have an 80gig slave which has win2k on and i want to format it, but wen i right click on the drive and click format it says "Windows cannot format this drive. quit any disk ultilties.....blahhh, so is there a program that will let me do it in windows..shud i try in safe mode??

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Offline Simon

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« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2003, 14:11 »
I don't think you can format a hard drive while Windows is running, Jon.

What I usually do myself, is boot with a Win98 start up floppy, use FDISK to wipe the drive, then load the OS CD and do it that way.
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« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2003, 14:12 »
cheers iv done it now!!!
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