Cannot format D drive

Hi

I have a Vista Ultimate PC with a C and D drive, the C drive carries the
operating system.

I am the only user on the PC

I have a clean install of Vista 64 and want to format the D drive so it is
clean as possible, this was in Windows explorer but I get the message that
The operation could not be completed.

When I go to Disk Management the "format" option is greyed out.
Any ideas on how I can fix this and get my drive formatted?

Thanks

Daniel

Hi,

What is D:\? Is it a separate volume on the same drive? Is this your
recovery volume?

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"Daniel" <> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have a Vista Ultimate PC with a C and D drive, the C drive carries the
> operating system.
>
> I am the only user on the PC
>
> I have a clean install of Vista 64 and want to format the D drive so it is
> clean as possible, this was in Windows explorer but I get the message that
> The operation could not be completed.
>
> When I go to Disk Management the "format" option is greyed out.
> Any ideas on how I can fix this and get my drive formatted?
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel
>

Hi

it is a Partition on a different hard drive, that is separate hard drive to
CO.
It is not the recovery volume.

cheers

Daniel
"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
>
> What is D:\? Is it a separate volume on the same drive? Is this your
> recovery volume?
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a Vista Ultimate PC with a C and D drive, the C drive carries the
>> operating system.
>>
>> I am the only user on the PC
>>
>> I have a clean install of Vista 64 and want to format the D drive so it
>> is clean as possible, this was in Windows explorer but I get the message
>> that The operation could not be completed.
>>
>> When I go to Disk Management the "format" option is greyed out.
>> Any ideas on how I can fix this and get my drive formatted?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>

Hi Daniel,

And what type of volume does Disk Manager report it as? If it's not
something Vista can handle, then you'd have to delete the volume and create
a new one.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Daniel" <> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> it is a Partition on a different hard drive, that is separate hard drive
> to CO.
> It is not the recovery volume.
>
> cheers
>
> Daniel
> "Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is D:\? Is it a separate volume on the same drive? Is this your
>> recovery volume?
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have a Vista Ultimate PC with a C and D drive, the C drive carries the
>>> operating system.
>>>
>>> I am the only user on the PC
>>>
>>> I have a clean install of Vista 64 and want to format the D drive so it
>>> is clean as possible, this was in Windows explorer but I get the message
>>> that The operation could not be completed.
>>>
>>> When I go to Disk Management the "format" option is greyed out.
>>> Any ideas on how I can fix this and get my drive formatted?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>
>
>