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Old October 7th, 2006, 12:34 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Cant Format Hard Drive Partition
I am trying to reformat the partition that vista Beta2 is on. I have already made the changes to allow just XP to boot. When i try to format the partition it tells me it is in use and wont do it. What could be causing this?
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Old October 7th, 2006, 07:59 AM     #2 (permalink)
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That does happen. It has to do with System Restore. Download this, make a floppy and format with it.

http://partitionlogic.org.uk/index.html
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