Formating NTFS with Windows 2000 installed

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Joyce Ross

How do you format a NTFS hard disk with Windows 2000
installed? I tried formating it and the following message
appears:
VOLUME IN USE CANNOT LOCK THE DRIVE THE VOLUME IS STILL IN
USE.
 
You didn't mention the desired end result. To wipe the drive, some ways
include; boot a win98 startup disk, run fdisk and delete all partition
information found (as long as NTFS is primary). Or boot the Windows 2000
CD-Rom or setup disks and when you get to the point, delete the existing
NTFS and or other partitions found, then abort the install. Or use a utility
named delpart. Once removed you can partition and format the drive as you
wish.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe
 
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