hard drive formatting (mounted drive?)

[dpd0313]

I'm trying to format a hard drive but an alert comes up that says somthing like the disk is mounted and must be unmounted to format.??

[Cricket]

Post your system specs and if this is a brand new computer or an existing one. Is it a home built or store bought name brand.

Is it on a network?

What OS are you trying to install?

:) Cricket

[dpd0313]

The hard drive is out of an old dell computer that I'm trying to get going for my daughter. It is running Win NT. I got the machine from continnental airlines when they upgraded. I tried to remove the drive and place it in my main computer to do the formatting. That machine is a home built: AMD Ath xp 2000+ running win xp.

[dpd0313]

I want to install win98 on that drive after the format.

[DragonNOA1]

can you fdisk it?

[glc]

Put Delpart on a boot floppy and use that to remove all the partitions. Then fdisk and format will work.

http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm