Delete partition/create partition/format partition = problem gone.

I hope you have backed up recently!

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Saleem" <Saleem@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'v managed to get to the drive C: and now trying to format the HDD with
> Win98 startup disk. It stops at 13th % and comes up with error message,
> "Format terminated". There's a file or volume or subdirectory who's name
> is
> in machine code hence I don't know what's it called. This file is
> preventing
> format to go any further. Obviously, I Could not run Window Explorer or
> delete this file from DOS prompt. So, I tried to access the file with an
> older application called XTpro, running from drive 'A', I found out that
> the
> volume or whatever it is, is Read Write protected. But the problem is,
> this
> bone of contention wouldn't let me change its properties either and I can
> not
> get rid of this problem.
> Any suggestion on how to make my HDD usable again!
> Saleem