T
The Dude
I am trying to reformat my 2nd hard drive using Disk
Management (in Administrative Tools - XP Pro) but I keep
getting errors telling me that the volume I am trying to
format is open or in use.
Here are the exact messages:
"The partition MAXTOR 80GB (E Primary partition is
currently in use. To force the format of this partition,
click Yes."
"The request cannot be completed because the volume is
open or in use. It may be configured as a system, boot,
or pagefile volume, or, to hold a crashdump file."
This is not a system or boot drive (as far as I can
tell), and the only page file is on my C: drive. The E:
drive is set to "No page file."
I'm not totally sure about the "crashdump" file. The
only thing I could find on that was in Control Panel ->
System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery, under "Write
debugging information", the "Small dump directory" is
listed as:
%SystemRoot%\Minidump
And this is the same as saying:
C:\WINDOWS\Minidump
But I don't know if that is what the error is referring
to.
Would it be safe to just force the format of the drive?
Or should I use a different method?
Management (in Administrative Tools - XP Pro) but I keep
getting errors telling me that the volume I am trying to
format is open or in use.
Here are the exact messages:
"The partition MAXTOR 80GB (E Primary partition is
currently in use. To force the format of this partition,
click Yes."
"The request cannot be completed because the volume is
open or in use. It may be configured as a system, boot,
or pagefile volume, or, to hold a crashdump file."
This is not a system or boot drive (as far as I can
tell), and the only page file is on my C: drive. The E:
drive is set to "No page file."
I'm not totally sure about the "crashdump" file. The
only thing I could find on that was in Control Panel ->
System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery, under "Write
debugging information", the "Small dump directory" is
listed as:
%SystemRoot%\Minidump
And this is the same as saying:
C:\WINDOWS\Minidump
But I don't know if that is what the error is referring
to.
Would it be safe to just force the format of the drive?
Or should I use a different method?