but the windows say that it can't reformat the hd, pls make sure that there is no program that is using the hd. But i do not have any files in there??? The reason being that i partition the secondary hd to two part. The first part is 14gb, but it only show that there is 10gb. There is nor hidden files, nothing. Can any one helps.
2006-06-26 15:54:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Try booting off CD or safemode.
2006-06-26 15:59:55 · answer #1 · answered by wordnerd27x 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u have installed any of the applications on the secondary hard disk that is while installing if u have given the path to secondary harddisk for example : d: E:\programfiles\installation apps then it shows like that . so unintall any of the applications on the secondary hard disk and then try reformatting the hard disk then everything will be fine
2006-06-26 23:58:14 · answer #2 · answered by harish_21_blr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try booting with windows Xp Cd and enter the recovery console and reformat your secondary hard disk or it is better that you repartition the hard disc. (use help command at recovery console to see list of available commands,diskpart is command for partitioning the hard disc)
2006-06-26 23:01:40 · answer #3 · answered by shiva 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Run windows in safe mode and then format the secondary hard disk.
2006-06-26 22:59:48 · answer #4 · answered by Akash Jain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows usually has a overhead memory used to store some of its "Microsoft"s stuff..But when a hard disk itself comes it usually will be 1-2 GB lesser than it specified..
2006-06-27 00:20:06 · answer #5 · answered by ViRuZ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure you really have 2 hard drives? Windows will not let you format the drive that contains /Windows, but it should let you format any other drive.
If your drives are separate partitions of a single physical drive, then it won't let you format it.
2006-06-27 00:43:10 · answer #6 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋