Formatting Slave Drive

[Martin]

I want to reformat the slave drive on my system. I have
deleted the contents of the drive but its properties
still show that about 4 gb are being used. I cant see any
more files on the drive.

When I try to format in dick mamagement I get a warning
that files are being used and do I want to force a format
with a warning that by doing so may cause the application
using the drive not to function correctly.

Also I am not given a choice to format to fat32. I can
only select nfts. If possible I would like to format to
fat32. The drive is currently formatted to fat32.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Martin

 

[purplehaz]

You can either go ahead and force the format(especially if you know the
drive is empty), but this will do ntfs. If you want fat32 then I think you
have to boot to a win9x floppy boot disk and format the drive that way.

 

[Malke]

You can either go ahead and force the format(especially if you know
the drive is empty), but this will do ntfs. If you want fat32 then I
think you have to boot to a win9x floppy boot disk and format the
drive that way.

Do you have System Restore monitoring the slave drive or the indexing
service enabled on it? That would prevent you from formatting it.

Malke

 

[Alex Nichol]

I want to reformat the slave drive on my system. I have
deleted the contents of the drive but its properties
still show that about 4 gb are being used. I cant see any
more files on the drive.

When I try to format in dick mamagement I get a warning
that files are being used and do I want to force a format
with a warning that by doing so may cause the application
using the drive not to function correctly.

Also I am not given a choice to format to fat32. I can
only select nfts. If possible I would like to format to
fat32. The drive is currently formatted to fat32.

Have Folder Options - View set to show Hidden files, and *not* Hide
Protected mode ones and take a look - there is probably a System Volume
Information folder containing restore points for that drive. As it is
evidently bigger than 32 GB, these might add up to your missing 4GB (up
to 12% of a drive) . If there are such files, go to System - System
restore, highlight the drive letter, and click Settings. Check 'disable
restore on this drive' and OK out. Reboot, and the files should be
gone: any that are left you can safely delete.

XP will not create or format a partition bigger than 32 GB as FAT 32.
Either you use NTFS, as recommended, or you do the format using outside
facilities - eg those of a Win98 startup floppy