Drive problems

[John Garate]

Windows XP
I have 1 meg of files on a seperate, internal, NTFS hard drive, but disk
properties shows that 1 gig is being used. Also, I cannot format the drive,
because I get the error message "..quit any utilities or other programs that
are using this drive, and make sure that no window is displaying the
contents of the drive". As far as I know, I have no utilities using this
drive. I do use Diskeeper (for defragging) but I don't think this would
cause this problem.

 

[Malke]

Windows XP
I have 1 meg of files on a seperate, internal, NTFS hard drive, but
disk properties shows that 1 gig is being used. Also, I cannot format
the drive, because I get the error message "..quit any utilities or
other programs that are using this drive, and make sure that no window
is displaying the contents of the drive". As far as I know, I have no
utilities using this drive. I do use Diskeeper (for defragging) but I
don't think this would cause this problem.

Have you enabled showing all hidden files and extensions? That might
explain the extra space. Quite a lot of space can be taken up by the
normally hidden System Restore files for instance.

As for the second part of your question, it sounds like you are trying
to format the drive while still in Windows. You cannot do this. To
format the drive (which will wipe out everything, you understand), boot
with your XP cd, take Installation, delete partitions, create
partitions, format, and install.

Malke