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Format d drive
Name: rajeev39 Date: October 7, 2008 at 05:57:06 Pacific OS: Win XP SP2 CPU/Ram: AMD sempron/448MB Product: AMD Sempron
Comment:
Hi... can u pls help me for this problem..."when i try to format my drive D, a diolouge appears that, "WINDOWS CANNOT FORMAT THIS DRIVE QUIT ANY DISK UTILITIS OR OTHER PROGRAMMES......" so on... pls help me...
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: October 7, 2008 at 07:22:48 Pacific
Reply:
What exactly is your D drive? Is it a partition on your Primary HDD or is it another drive? Are you attempting to format within Disk Management?
"So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown
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Response Number 2
Name: rajeev39 Date: October 7, 2008 at 21:21:25 Pacific
Reply:
Hi.. Thanks for the posting.
D drive is a partition of my HDD.The file sys is NTFS and I attempted the format from disk mgmt.
I hope that someone will find the solution.
Rgds, Rajeev
Rgds, Rajeev
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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: October 8, 2008 at 04:26:29 Pacific
Reply:
Delete the partition, then recreate it and format.
"So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown
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Response Number 4
Name: rajeev39 Date: October 8, 2008 at 07:46:18 Pacific
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O.k, can you pls tell me the way to delete the partition. If it is the option "delete the logical drive", from disk mngr, it does't work. I mean it is not able to click.
I'm looking forward for tour help... Pls help me..
Rgds, Rajeev
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Response Number 5
Name: Asad Jawaid Date: October 11, 2008 at 04:10:43 Pacific
Reply:
Boot system from CD.. use FDISK command for HDD partitions.
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