At 9/17/00 04:28 PM, Marshall Fortescue wrote:
>I have an external drive that I'm trying to format. The drive will only be
>used for data or audio files. It will not be used for a boot drive.
>Either when I type "format D:" at a dos prompt OR
>right click on the drive and go into the Windows "format" routine
>it does NOT let me continue. It is saying there is an error with the dos
>command, or there is something running and it can't format with the windows
>routine.
Is this a parallel port or USB connected external hard drive? My external
hard drive case had its own format and fdisk commands and neither the DOS
or Windows format commands would work on it. Mine is a parallel port
external drive.
Doug
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