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Title: Format
Post by: jon996 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??

thanks

Title: Re:Format
Post by: Simon 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.

Title: Re:Format
Post by: jon996 on December 31, 2003, 14:12

cheers iv done it now!!!
 :D