Format Problems (UPDATED) HELP??????

[Patrick Sargent]

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition on an NTSF formatted drive, my second
drive is formatted and partitioned as NTFS as well, and works just fine.
It's visible by BIOS and also in Windows XP and otherwise works just fine,
but has 1gig used. The drive is empty and will not allow me to format, it
says quit all disk utilities, but nothing is running how can I format this
drive, what do I need to kill.

The system is not an OEM system, it was built by me, and has run just
fine....I just can't figure out what's hogging 1gig on a secondary drive, no
swap file, cache, etc. exists on this drive?

I repost this message because I didn't give everyone enough information the
first time, I've gotten some great suggestions on my first post, but none
really apply, so keep them coming it. And thanks for those who offered
help.

Patrick

 

[Danny Bleu]

Not having particiapted in the previous discussion please forgive redundancy,
but have you booted from a floppy and FDISK'ed the drive to remove all
partitions?
If you can then you should be able to format drive from XP HE.

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition on an NTSF formatted drive, my second
drive is formatted and partitioned as NTFS as well, and works just fine.
It's visible by BIOS and also in Windows XP and otherwise works just fine,
but has 1gig used. The drive is empty and will not allow me to format, it
says quit all disk utilities, but nothing is running how can I format this
drive, what do I need to kill.

The system is not an OEM system, it was built by me, and has run just
fine....I just can't figure out what's hogging 1gig on a secondary drive, no
swap file, cache, etc. exists on this drive?

I repost this message because I didn't give everyone enough information the
first time, I've gotten some great suggestions on my first post, but none
really apply, so keep them coming it. And thanks for those who offered
help.

Patrick

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Patrick,

System Restore

Control Panel/System/SR tab/settings, disable it for that drive.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone