Formating a Drive

[Mike]

I have 2 partitions on my computer. Both of them has
windows XP installed on it. Booting from one, I tried to
format the other drive. It went through and looked like
it had been completed, but when I opened the drive in the
windows explorer, all the files were still there. Is
there some other way to format the drive or did i possibly
do something wrong.

 

[purplehaz]

You never said how you tried to format it? And how are the drives currently
formatted, fat32 or ntfs?

 

[Mike]

Sorry, didn't think it made a differnce. They are both
NTFS.

 

[Mike]

And I tried to format it as NTFS.

-----Original Message-----
You never said how you tried to format it? And how are the drives currently
formatted, fat32 or ntfs?




.

 

[purplehaz]

I meant with what utility did you try to format? If they are ntfs you can do
it from disk management, or
Boot to a win9x floppy boot disk, run Fdisk, delete partitions, create new
partitions, reboot to boot disk again, run format to fat32, (or reboot to xp
cd, format to ntfs, cancel install). Get boot disk here: www.bootdisk.com

 

[Mike]

I'm just right clicking on the drive in my windows
explorer and clicking on format.

 

[purplehaz]

You can't do it that way. Try it from disk management.
Right click my computer, manage, disk management, right click the drive,
choose: format.
If you get any messages that say the disk is in use, just click ok to force
the format.