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I'm having difficulties formatting the hard drive on the computer.
I Right-Click C:\ when I'm in My Computer then go down to Format. It comes up with a screen saying what capacity, what data storage, whether or not Fast Format. I press Start Format and I click Ok, I really do want to format it, then it comes up with a message box saying Windows cannot format drive C:\. Close any windows that have any links with the disk and close all screens that show the disk contents.
All Windows are closed apart fomr the format one and when I do Ctrl-Alt-Del the only process that isn't a system process which is running is Explorer.
Same happens when I go start\run\command\format c:
Any ideas how I do it?
I Right-Click C:\ when I'm in My Computer then go down to Format. It comes up with a screen saying what capacity, what data storage, whether or not Fast Format. I press Start Format and I click Ok, I really do want to format it, then it comes up with a message box saying Windows cannot format drive C:\. Close any windows that have any links with the disk and close all screens that show the disk contents.
All Windows are closed apart fomr the format one and when I do Ctrl-Alt-Del the only process that isn't a system process which is running is Explorer.
Same happens when I go start\run\command\format c:
Any ideas how I do it?
Alternatively, repackage the computer into it's box it came delivered in and send it back to the manufacturer that it came from.......I think everyone else will know the rest :P
Or if you are going to re-install anyway then you can boot from the operating system disk and then delete partition and create a new one before re-installing.
Colin
Colin
unknown kernel wrote:
> Yes, but think of the space.
Ha!
Fantastic.
> Yes, but think of the space.
Ha!
Fantastic.
Yes, but think of the space.
What do you plan on doing with the drive after you've formatted it, as you certainly won't be able to load Windows :O[]
The reason why that doesn't work is you trying to use Windows to delete Windows, which obviously doesn't work. You'll need you recovery CD.
You cannot format a drive in use. Basically, when you're calling the format command, you're doing it from C: so it can't be formatted while in use.
Provided your copy of Windows is legal, grab the recovery CD and boot from thst instead.
Provided your copy of Windows is legal, grab the recovery CD and boot from thst instead.
I'm having difficulties formatting the hard drive on the computer.
I Right-Click C:\ when I'm in My Computer then go down to Format. It comes up with a screen saying what capacity, what data storage, whether or not Fast Format. I press Start Format and I click Ok, I really do want to format it, then it comes up with a message box saying Windows cannot format drive C:\. Close any windows that have any links with the disk and close all screens that show the disk contents.
All Windows are closed apart fomr the format one and when I do Ctrl-Alt-Del the only process that isn't a system process which is running is Explorer.
Same happens when I go start\run\command\format c:
Any ideas how I do it?
I Right-Click C:\ when I'm in My Computer then go down to Format. It comes up with a screen saying what capacity, what data storage, whether or not Fast Format. I press Start Format and I click Ok, I really do want to format it, then it comes up with a message box saying Windows cannot format drive C:\. Close any windows that have any links with the disk and close all screens that show the disk contents.
All Windows are closed apart fomr the format one and when I do Ctrl-Alt-Del the only process that isn't a system process which is running is Explorer.
Same happens when I go start\run\command\format c:
Any ideas how I do it?