[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


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----- 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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