Computor formating

my computor wont format. i have tried CMD and reinstalling the disk and going
into my computor and right clicking on the hard disk but the messgaes that i
recieve are that the volume is still in use and i havent a clus what the
means. my OS is windows XP Pro. can you help?

You cannot boot the system and format the drive(s) which is used for booting
or the one the system is installed on (typically the same drive).

If you want to format a system drive then with XP you can boot the
installation CD and format the drive. You will loose all the information on
the drive and will need to reinstall the system as well as all applications.

If an earlier operating system like win98 then you can boot the bootdisk
(floppy) and format the drive.

In either case make sure you have the necessary install media, any required
qualifying product and the product key before starting. You also should have
any data you need backed up. You will not be able to recover it later.



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Jon Hildrum
DTS MVP

www.hildrum.com
"Computor formating" <Computor > wrote in
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> my computor wont format. i have tried CMD and reinstalling the disk and
> going
> into my computor and right clicking on the hard disk but the messgaes that
> i
> recieve are that the volume is still in use and i havent a clus what the
> means. my OS is windows XP Pro. can you help?

what i found formating a hard drive is you have erase a partion, then
underneath the box there is another box and it should tell ya it is formating
and at what percent it is at abd the size of the disk being formated to. the
problem i had was that you can not boot from the disk after formating.
arealmes

"Computor formating" wrote:

> my computor wont format. i have tried CMD and reinstalling the disk and going
> into my computor and right clicking on the hard disk but the messgaes that i
> recieve are that the volume is still in use and i havent a clus what the
> means. my OS is windows XP Pro. can you help?