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[mikey36]

i want reinstall windows and am trying to format the hard drive its installed on and i get the following below. how do i over come this. iam in command prompt within windows. do i need to be outside of??? and if so how


thanks mikey


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

D:\Documents and Settings\>format D:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK
DRIVE D: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
Verifying 76308M

Format cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Format may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) y
Cannot lock the drive. The volume is still in use.

D:\Documents and Settings\>

[mindmetoo]

The easy answer is you cannot format a hard drive under XP. You can delete all the files or you can do a clean reinstall of XP onto the HD with the install CD.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;Q313348

[mikey36]

figured it out with the help of google


just changed the boot sequence in the bios and booted the cd rom first; ran the windows cd, deleted files on drive and fresh install.... too easy and now back up and running without the old headaches

thanks all

[Giant]

Did you try using disk manager first? That usually always works. right click on my computer and then click on 'manage'. Then click on disk manager and then right click on the drive and select format.

Should work!