UGH...This Formatting thing, again!!!

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Michael P Gabriel

Hi, I just want to format partition "E"!!! Why can't I???

I've read a million posts on formatting, but none of them addressed my
issue:

I have an "E" drive that shows 32G total, with 28G Free! Yet I do not
have anything loaded on the "E" drive. I formatted it using Patition
Magic 8.0, and it finally showed total free at 32G. YIPPEEEEE!

But, when I clicked APPLY, it rebooted and began the process of
ACTUALLY formatting "E", UNTIL...that dreaded error message which I
do not understand. Paraphrasing....Partition could not be formatted
because of Boot Sector Virus Protection, or anti virus running on your
system,

A: My Dell 2400 Dimension does not have a Boot Sector Virus Protection
in its BIOS, and

B: I do not run any anti-virus programs!!! I use a dial-up modem, and
my ISP takes care of incoming and outgoing Email protection; also, I
watch where I go on the internet, very carefully. I have not had a
virus in years!

OOOOPS! Ya think I have a virus now that's causing this problem??

Mike
Picture Rocks, AZ
 
Have you tried formatting from outside of Windows using either the Recovery
Console or using the PM8 bootdisk set?
 
Michael said:
Hi, I just want to format partition "E"!!! Why can't I???

I've read a million posts on formatting, but none of them addressed my
issue:

I have an "E" drive that shows 32G total, with 28G Free! Yet I do not
have anything loaded on the "E" drive. I formatted it using Patition
Magic 8.0, and it finally showed total free at 32G. YIPPEEEEE!

But, when I clicked APPLY, it rebooted and began the process of
ACTUALLY formatting "E", UNTIL...that dreaded error message which I
do not understand. Paraphrasing....Partition could not be formatted
because of Boot Sector Virus Protection, or anti virus running on your
system,

A: My Dell 2400 Dimension does not have a Boot Sector Virus Protection
in its BIOS, and

B: I do not run any anti-virus programs!!! I use a dial-up modem, and
my ISP takes care of incoming and outgoing Email protection; also, I
watch where I go on the internet, very carefully. I have not had a
virus in years!

OOOOPS! Ya think I have a virus now that's causing this problem??
Click to expand...

Ya think? Scan the entire system using at least two (2) of the free online
scans which follow; each will require ActiveX to be enabled:

Kaspersky
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html

TrendMicro
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Symantec
http://snurl.com/g14
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

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http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect
 
ALWAYS run a anti-virus program. You can get a virus now-a-days by just
connecting to the internet. Your isp scanning email is about 5% protection.
ALWAYS run a firewall. Firewalls can stop viruses and trojans like the MS
Blaster virus.

IMO, a win9x floppy boot disk is still the best and easiest way to manage
partions / drives.
Boot to a win9x floppy boot disk, run Fdisk, delete E: partition, create new
partition, reboot to boot disk again, run format e:\

Get boot disk here: www.bootdisk.com



If this does not work, then the drive is either dead not functioning
correctly. Fdisk will remove any virus, if you have one.
 
Michael said:
But, when I clicked APPLY, it rebooted and began the process of
ACTUALLY formatting "E", UNTIL...that dreaded error message which I
do not understand. Paraphrasing....Partition could not be formatted
because of Boot Sector Virus Protection, or anti virus running on your
system,
Click to expand...

Did you try disabling "anti-virus" in the bios? This could be the "odd"
occasion when a windows error message actually helps :)
 
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