How were trying to format your hard drive? You can not format C if the
operating system is loaded. You can make A boot disk like EBD with windows
98 and then boot your PC with the floppy. at the A prompt type format C:



Chilangisha Changwe



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From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list

Date: Saturday, July 30, 2005 04:55:47 AM

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Subject: [PCSOFT] formatting drive c



Troy Stewart's original post:---



<<<i have an old windows 95 computer up graded to windows 98 tht has 2 hdd's
 one

with 2gb in drive d and the other a 4gb in drive c. i can format drive d but

when i go to format drive c i get a message "this drive cannot be formated

because another process is in use. how do i work around this. should i take
the

2gb drive out or what other process could be use. thanks,>>>



How are your drives configured? master/slave/cable select? do you have any
other optical drives? I think we need some more info (your operating system/
whether you are using windows formatting feature or some other third party
software like partition magic).but perhaps some other members may be able to
offer suggestions with the info you have provided i don't know.



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