reformatting slave disk

[Doug]

I found a virus on a slave disk that was located in a
system restore file.

I decided to reformat the disk to get rid of the virus.
However, the formatting process ended with the message
that:
The second NTFS boot sector is unwriteable
The first NTFS boot sector is unwriteable
All NTFS boot sectors are unwriteable
Format failed.

Is there a switch to force the format?

Thanks

Doug

 

[Guest]

Try booting to xp cd,recovery,press enter for password,in cmd screen typeiskPar
All partitions are shown,delete partition,then type:EXIT or esc, back in cmd screen,type
FORMAT D: /FS:ntfs D: being any drive,when thru,type:EXIT remove cd let xp start.

 

[Guest]

Thanks!!!