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I installed a new hard drive recently (C) and made the old hard drive a
slave (E). I copied the contents of the old drive to the new drive, leaving
the contents on the old drive intact until I could satisfy myself the new
hard drive was functioning. Now that I have satisfied myself that all is
well with the new C drive, I tried to format (erase) the old drive E. I get
this error message: "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."
In fact, no window was displaying the drive, and I cannot imagine that any
program or disk utility could be open since I would not have changed the
location of any program from C to E. But I'm a neophyte on this problem, so
there could be something running in the background of which I am not aware.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Harlan
slave (E). I copied the contents of the old drive to the new drive, leaving
the contents on the old drive intact until I could satisfy myself the new
hard drive was functioning. Now that I have satisfied myself that all is
well with the new C drive, I tried to format (erase) the old drive E. I get
this error message: "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."
In fact, no window was displaying the drive, and I cannot imagine that any
program or disk utility could be open since I would not have changed the
location of any program from C to E. But I'm a neophyte on this problem, so
there could be something running in the background of which I am not aware.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Harlan