- formating old boot drive
- Posted by RealGomer on February 19th, 2008
I replaced my ATA-IDE boot drive with a SATA drive. I've tried to delete all
of the files on the old ATA drive and formating it but I keep getting an
error that the drive is in use. Even starting in safe mode gives the same
error. Both methods say the drive cannot be unmounted or locked. Suggestions?
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- Posted by Andy on February 19th, 2008
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:51:02 -0800, RealGomer
<RealGomer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Sounds like your IDE drive still contains the Windows system partition
or page file. Run Disk Management, and check the status of the
partition(s) on the IDE drive.
- Posted by Ed Covney on February 19th, 2008
What's the purpose of deleting files before formatting?
Ed
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- Posted by RealGomer on February 28th, 2008
I couldn't get the drive to format in normal or safe mode. I was trying to
whack everything first.
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"Ed Covney" wrote:
- Posted by RealGomer on February 28th, 2008
Disk Management shows it as Disk 0 with Page File healthy.
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"Andy" wrote:
- Posted by Ed Covney on February 29th, 2008
1) Boot to the new sata drive
2) [Start], [Run], "diskmgmt.msc" (w/o quotes)
3) Locate & format the old disk. Even if a program
left the drive locked, windows will give you the
opportunity to ... format anyway!
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- Posted by Andy on February 29th, 2008
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:06:01 -0800, RealGomer
<RealGomer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
That means Windows is using the IDE drive, which prevents formatting
it. You can move the page file to the new disk: right click My
Computer , select Properties > Advanced > Performance Options >
Virtual memory Change...
- Posted by RealGomer on February 29th, 2008
Should pagefile.sys be on every drive? It's the same size on the C & F drives
and on the D & E drives.
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"Andy" wrote:
- Posted by RealGomer on February 29th, 2008
No can do. Format option greyed out.
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"Ed Covney" wrote:
- Posted by Ed Covney on February 29th, 2008
In diskmgmt.msc, what happens if you rt. click on the
drive number? If a menu appears, go to properties and
windows should indicate what you need to do to prep
the drive for a format.
If still no joy, exit to dos shell in the root directory of
the problem drive.
Then "CHKDSK /F" (without quotes) - This will
require a re-boot and at the proper time in the boot
cycle, windows will chkdsk the drive.
It may tell you whats going on with that drive.
Ed
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- Posted by Andy on March 1st, 2008
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:46:02 -0800, RealGomer
<RealGomer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
One page file of adequate size is sufficient. Setup normally places it
in the boot partition.
- Posted by wp on March 2nd, 2008
On Mar 1, 3:51*am, Andy <1...@2.3> wrote:
get dbanuke
nuke it
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