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Old June 11th, 2004, 11:44 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Unable to Format Drive (DUAL win XP)

I have two hard disks in my PC and I recently installed windows onto the empty one so that I could format the first one and then use the second to boot windows.

At the moment I am dual running windows XP Pro

Everything went ok except that I cannot format the origenal drive (The one with software and first install of windows.)

I get the message:
"Windows was unable to complete the format"

Is because windows still thinks there is important data on that drive? (IE: first install of windows?) I have tryed to format it from both OS installations and nither works.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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