In Jaymon <
[email protected]> typed:
| Did you check the Indexing Service it too may have been accessing the
| D: drive..?
Dont have Indexing service turned on as a service
| You can also turn off the recycle bin capabilities on D: too, by right
| clicking the bins desktop icon, properties, global tab, check config
| drives independently, check "do not move files to the Recycle bin"..
| Remember, windows is looking at a primary partition with data on it
| anyway and will always warn you that system files can or could be
| affected.. Perhaps even a paging file might have had access..?
Had deleted existing paging file
I'm
| wondering why you have given up with disk management..?
There comes a point that the phrase ' stop beating a dead horse' and
that's what this felt like. So for the fuss and bother of getting a disk
that was in a Fat32 formatted into the NTFS and a bunch of old files sat
waiting for a 'dead storage area' I just muttered 'THAT's IT!' and
proceeded to use the empty Fat32.
I never use
| OEM HD disk managers if I can help it, have always trusted fdisk or
| disk management to partition & format HD's for all the MS Windows and
| DOS OS's I've used over the years, my opinion..
I didn't feel comfortable using the utility from the Maxtor site but I
downloaded it and saved ...just in case sort of thing...
| If you want to use NTFS just do it, or not, your call..
I like the feature of being able to add comments in the properties
sheets which will show up in a column while using Windows explorer.
Unfortunately this data column doesn't show up when burned to a cd. I
just do a screen shot to get those descriptive phrases. It is a handy
addition to describe obscure freeware download file names or a notation
about an image.
|
| Look these links over, if you haven't already..
|
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881/EN-US/
|
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310525/EN-US/
|
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463/EN-US/
|
| If you want to format your entire 40GB HD or larger drives and or
| partitions in XP with XP's Disk Management, see the link below..
| Works nice, super fast too..
|
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
I checked out a lot of references looking for specifics on reformating a
slave drive but most were focusing on the main drive with the OS being
installed. I'll check this reference out just the same. My main drive is
partitioned with the OS on fat32 and my data files on Ntfs. So my old
30G drive matches the drive C instead~)
Thanks for all the input.
| Cheers..
| j;-j
|
|
| "RoseW" wrote:
|
|| In || Jaymon <
[email protected]> typed:
||| Check and see if System Restore is monitoring the D: drive in System
||| Properties..?
||| If it is, highlight the D: drive and hit the settings button, check
||| the box to stop SR from monitoring the drive..
||| Any change..?
||| j;-j
||
|| Yes, I had already done that and the message still arrived.
|| I checked with my local repair service and his advice was to download
|| the utility from the Maxtor drive site (Maxblaster 4 )which has the
|| drive set-up and formating for slave drive as well as main system
|| drive. There is an older MBplus2 utility that will work on other
|| brand name drives the Maxblaster4 is only for Maxtor drives. It was
|| his view that WindowsXp is very protective of its system and he
|| would use the Maxtor utility if he were doing the task.
|| I ended up just deleting by hand. All deleted with no problem.
|| Scanned the drive and no bad blocks. I have given up on the idea of
|| formatting it to be an NTFS and will just be using it in its Fat32
|| for digital image storage. I wasn't sure what to do with the Recycle
|| bin so I left it there. Moved some folders over to that drive as a
|| test and all seems to be fine.
|| It could be because I have a home network although the other computer
|| wasn't on or that Diskeeper runs automatically in the background-but
|| that old drive was not defragmented. I prefer the NTFS structure but
|| this old drive will be inactive stored stuff that is already burned
|| to a cd but if I want any of the files its faster to get them of a
|| drive then the cd routine.
||| "RoseW" wrote:
|||
|||||||
|||||| My query is about removing the old program files from my old
|||||| fat32 drive now in a slave postion (harddrive1)
|||||| WindowsXp has been deleted from that drive but the Program files,
|||||| documents and settings folders are still there. I thought I might
|||||| need that list to recall what had to be reinstalled on the new
|||||| drive(master) partitioned into two sections C: system Fat32 E:
|||||| NTFS. Now, I'm sure I don't need those files (4.2Gb worth)
|||||| This second harddrive is one partition(FAT32) now named D:
|||||| I went to Disk Management, right clicked on Drive D to format and
|||||| in that process a message came up saying that some system files
|||||| were active and could be damaged by continuing so I backed out of
|||||| that activity.
|||||| My intent was to format to NTFS and use that old drive status as
|||||| a storage area only.
|||||| At the moment I'm deleting things one folder at a time because I
|||||| have not been able to Google any results for this warning message
|||||| that popped up.
|||||| What is the DOS command that would format the disk D to be in
|||||| NTFS?
|||| This is an unused drive with old program files, no Windows present
|||| and I assume no registry. It seems strange to me that files would
|||| be active. I'm not acessing that drive.
|||| This is the exact message that appears if I use the Disk Management
|||| menu command FORMAT
|||| 'he Volume Old C Drive(D
Primary partition is currently in use.
|||| To force the format of this volume, click Yes.
|||| Warning: Forcing a format might cause unexpected errors in the
|||| application that is using this volume. Do you want to continue?'
|||| Who knows what application is using, I sure cannot find a trail.
|||| Rose
