Can't format free space

[Guest]

I have a Seagate drive partioned into three drives. However, I'm unable to
format the free space in one segment. All the prompts come up but when I
tell it to format it comes back indicating there isn't enough space even
though 93GB is free.

Anyone know a work around - I never come across this before.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Try using a Windows XP disk, run from boot then format each partition
through the initial setup. You may end up installing XP on one of them in
the end, but it's easy then to do a clean installation of Vista on top )

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[Guest]

G'day mate, I have a drive partitioned into 30gig partitions, I used the disk
management utility to convert all my partitions into NTFS partitions from
FAT32 and had no problem at all until I went to do the last one, this one is
telling me that there is not enough space on my disc/s to perform the
function, now i've lost 30gig, the option of installing xp on there really
isn't a feasable option ass it is free space not a partition it recognises,
anyone have any ideas that might work ??