Hi Jim. What is your 'D' drive? Is it your cd rom drive? You can not
format a drive. You can format a directory such as your hard drive 'C'.
What is the specific error or other message you receive when you try to
use the drive? What operating system are you running? Operating system
is windows.
Mick

James Prather wrote:

>Hi Lists,
>    I used Western Digital's Data Lifeguard to test my drives and,
>according to the test, my physical drives function properly.  However,
>when I go to get some files on my D drive, I can't because the drive is
>either locked by a program or not formatted right.  What is the step in
>doing a drive format?  How can I find out what's locking this drive?
>Help is appreciated.
>
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