Formatting before Win XP Pro setup

[Jan Mark]

I have Win2k Pro and have tried to make a clean install of
XP Pro on a second new HDD. Two attempts have failed and I
now get three choices when I boot: 1) XP Setup 2) XP
Professional or 3) Windows 2000.

Booting from XP Pro CD and choosing 1) gives: "Setup
cannot load keyboard layoutfile KBDUS.DLL" (The XP Pro CD
and my Win2k Pro are in english, but my language is
swedish).

Choosing 2) gives: "Could not start Windows\system32
\hal.dll, missing or corrupt. Reinstall a copy".

Choosing 3) starts Win2k without any problems.

I would like to reformat my new drive D and start all
over. However when I try this from Windows I get the
message: "Windows cannot format this drive. Quit any disk
utilities or other programs that are using this drive".

I have tried to format through Partition Magic 8 after
closing Norton Antivirus as I was told and still get the
message: "Unable to write to the boot sector. Virus
protecting software may be running".

Is there any other way I can format my new drive so that I
can make my XP installation? As it is now my old drive C
with Win2k is master and the new drive D is slave. Shall I
change this before installing XP. I want to keep Win2k and
gradually move my applications to XP since I have read
that it is safer to make a clean install instead of an
upgrade.

Grateful for any tips

Jan Mark

 

[Jan Mark]

Thank you Anthony,

I have tried to format from the command prompt in safe
mode and got the following message: "Format cannot run
because volume is in use by another process. Format may
run if this volume is dismounted first. All open bundles
to this volume would then be invalid. Would you like to
force a dismount on this volume? Y/N

After yes: Cannot lock the drive. The volume is still in
use." I cannot understand how this drive can be in use.
Shall I take it out of the PC and let the supplier format
if he can or is there something else I can do?

Jan

-----Original Message-----
Check in the Bios. Some Bios' have an option to enable

boot sector virus scanning. Then try formatting the drive
from the command prompt. format d: