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Really no way to reformat a drive in Windows 2000?
Monday, August 2, 2004 at 10:45 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David Johnson
(1 messages posted)
I have had the same problem with "windows cannot format this drive" and I am NOT
running Windows 2000 on the same partition I am trying to format. I have deleted
everything visible and hidden on the disk and tried killing every possible process
and uninstalling every possible application. I have run format from the Disk Manager
with all other windows closed and from the desktop with only the Format window open.
I have run "format" in the command line and used the /x modifier to try and force
the recalcitrant drive to unmount so that it can be erased. Nothing works, and if
there is a trick to get around this glitch I have not found it on the web. I was
lucky enough to miss out on Windows 98 and DOS, so I don't have the "luxury" of going
to all the trouble of building a '98 boot disk and then using fdisk to zap my drive
(which perhaps should be renamed "f***edisk")
So don't be suprised if you end up with the same problem and the only advice you
get is, "you fool, you can't erase the drive that contains your operating sytem!"
In the end the only thing which saved me was making a bootable "killdisk" (get the
code at www.killdisk.com.) Without jury-rigged freeware, every non-Linux PC in the
world would be toast within a year.
As a longtime Mac user I am happy to crow about the fact that the most rich and powerful
computer company in the world seems to be incapable of writing software to reformat
drives running their own filesystem. Every day and in every way, WINDOWS IS A PIECE
OF JUNK. To all those in denial: you're why they're still in business.
On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 1:56 am, Fatboy210 wrote:
>You cannot format from within windows. create a windows 98 boot disk and run fdisk
>to format the partition. If you have ntfs it will say unknown partition but it will
>still format.
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