I have been trying to reformat my drive on my computer, not a "windows XP reinstallation" but just straight out format the disk. after it gives me the warning of erasing everything on the disk, a window pops up after I click format saying, "windows cannot format this drive. quit any disk utilities and make sure that no windows is displaying the contents of this drive. then try again." Please! help me! I cant find any way to stop running these programs. I have uninstalled everything that I can including disk utilities and what not. I tried doing the "reccomended reinstall of XP" but it deleted nothing. Please help!
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Jump to PostHmmm... take this suggestion only as a suggestion. I'm sure that someone else will be able to respond in more detail.
I have no idea why you're running into this problem, but whenever I've needed to reformat (I used to do it quite a bit) I would use Linux.
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Jump to PostAre you trying to format from within window !! if yes use a win boot disk to do it .
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q255867
Jump to PostHmmm... take this suggestion only as a suggestion. I'm sure that someone else will be able to respond in more detail.
quit any disk utilities and make sure that no windows is displaying the contents of this drive. then try again." Please! help me! I cant find any way to …
Jump to PostHere's how I do it - there are more and probably better ways but this works for me:
Download a 98 startup boot disk from www.bootdisk.com
(yes 98, not xp) and …
Jump to PostHmmm... take this suggestion only as a suggestion. I'm sure that someone else will be able to respond in more detail.
I have no idea why you're running into this problem, but whenever I've needed to reformat (I used to do it quite a bit) I would use Linux.
Again, …
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