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Old 02-28-2004, 12:17 PM   #1
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hard drive formatting (mounted drive?)
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.??
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Old 02-28-2004, 12:45 PM   #2
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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?

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Old 02-28-2004, 12:53 PM   #3
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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.
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Old 02-28-2004, 12:54 PM   #4
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I want to install win98 on that drive after the format.
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Old 02-28-2004, 09:21 PM   #5
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can you fdisk it?
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Old 02-28-2004, 11:21 PM   #6
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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
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