Getting "unable to lock Drive"...

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Charlie

I am tryihng to format a partitioned drive on Win XP I
got the 2nd partiton to format but when I go to Command
promp and try to format it says that it can not lock the
drive and is in use by another volume can not continue???

Do I have to be logged in as Admin on a win XP home pc to
do this or is another solution available
 
Charlie, you should be able to format a partition from MyComputer>rt click
Drive Icon>Select Format. You can also go
to Control Panel>AdminTools>Computer Manage>Disk Management and format
the partition from there. YOU
CANNOT FORMAT the Partition that WinXP resides on.
 
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