Format slave?

[LMO]

Hello all. I added a second hard drive to my system. It shows up as D:\. It
is a 30GB drive I had used on an older system. It is the slave drive to my
160GB, XP SP2, system. Currently, the drive is almost empty, except for the
Recycler and System Volume Infomration.
Here's the problem. I would like to reformat the slave drive. When I
right-click on the drive icon, and try to use the format option, I am told
there is a program running that is preventing a format. I have turned off
all running programs that might interfere (including the system restore),
but I still get the same error.
I then tried to boot the system off my Win98se boot disk. No joy. It would
not boot, so I could not use FDisk to reformat the D: drive.
What might still be running and interefering, and how the heck can I format
the drive?
Thanks all!

 

[Michael Stevens]

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Hello all. I added a second hard drive to my system. It shows up as
D:\. It is a 30GB drive I had used on an older system. It is the
slave drive to my 160GB, XP SP2, system. Currently, the drive is
almost empty, except for the Recycler and System Volume Infomration.
Here's the problem. I would like to reformat the slave drive. When I
right-click on the drive icon, and try to use the format option, I am
told there is a program running that is preventing a format. I have
turned off all running programs that might interfere (including the
system restore), but I still get the same error.
I then tried to boot the system off my Win98se boot disk. No joy. It
would not boot, so I could not use FDisk to reformat the D: drive.
What might still be running and interefering, and how the heck can I
format the drive?
Thanks all!

Try it from safe mode using Disk Management.
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[LMO]

Ahhh, forgot all about disk management! Yeah, that did it. Thank you!