[access-uk] Re: Formatting a Hard Drive

["Dj Paddy" <mygroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roger.

No problem.  Forgive me, smiles.  I've not been about on lists in ages and 
have been used to dealing with stuffy professors.  grins

The other two suggestions I'd made was trying to hit apps key on the drive, 
and then go to format immediately after Windows has booted up.  This way no 
programs should have locked the drive.

The other suggestion was to format the drive from the command prompt within 
windows.  To do this.

1.  Go to run.

2.  Type cmd and press enter.

3.  Type without the quotes, "format x:"
Where x is, replace it with your drive letter.

4.  When prompted to enter a volume lable you can just pres return, or enter 
the current lable you've given the drive and press return.

Let's know if any of this works.

Again sorry for running into that one, getting a bit utilitarian these days 
and not liking it!  grins.

Barry

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "roger south" <roger.south@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:59 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Formatting a Hard Drive


> Hi Barry
>
> Slow down mate you're talking to an idiot here. Can I have that again in 
> English please? The only bit I understood is the disable restore  which I 
> hadn't done so that's the first mistake.
>
> Roger
>
> Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dj Paddy" <mygroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 8:56 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Formatting a Hard Drive
>
>
> > Heya Roger.
> >
> > Did you try a reboot and try formatting the drive from Widows just 
> > loaded?
> >
> > You could try formatting the drive from the command prompt.
> >
> > Also disable System Restore on the drive, if not done already.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> >
> > Ôà
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "roger south" <roger.south@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 8:51 PM
> > Subject: [access-uk] Formatting a Hard Drive
> >
> >
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I have a secondary internal 220 gig hard drive I use for, amongst other 
> > > things, backing up my data and operating system. I decided tonight to 
> > > tidy it up and clear some of the no longer needed stuff on it. I reached 
> > > the point when I could no longer delete items as access was denied. 
> > > Then I thought the easiest way out was to re-format the drive as there 
> > > was nothing on it I need. But when I went into My Computer high lighted 
> > > the drive and brought up the context menu to select Format it said 
> > > Windows could not do this as something was using the drive. I closed 
> > > down everything I could find to no avail.
> > >
> > > Has anyone any ideas as to what I should do now please.
> > >
> > > Many thanks
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
> > > Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
> > >
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