Cannot format D drive

[Daniel]

Hi

I have a Vista Ultimate PC with a C and D drive, the C drive carries the
operating system.

I am the only user on the PC

I have a clean install of Vista 64 and want to format the D drive so it is
clean as possible, this was in Windows explorer but I get the message that
The operation could not be completed.

When I go to Disk Management the "format" option is greyed out.
Any ideas on how I can fix this and get my drive formatted?

Thanks

Daniel

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

What is D:\? Is it a separate volume on the same drive? Is this your
recovery volume?

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[Daniel]

Hi

it is a Partition on a different hard drive, that is separate hard drive to
CO.
It is not the recovery volume.

cheers

Daniel

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Daniel,

And what type of volume does Disk Manager report it as? If it's not
something Vista can handle, then you'd have to delete the volume and create
a new one.

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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