Drew
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Registered: 24th Nov 01
Location: County Durham
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cant go into my computer as it says the drive is in use (obviously)
so how do i go about formatting it?
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flipmo
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Registered: 4th Nov 02
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boot from a floppy boot disk and use fdisk
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Sims
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Registered: 15th Aug 03
Location: Bath/Bristol area Drove: 1994 Corsa SRi Now: VTR
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do it in dos. use a boot disc and pic the option that allows you to put in command lines. then type FORMAT C i believe. You will lose all your data though mate. so make sure everything is backed up.
you could also put the hard drive into another machine. boot up and use windows on that pc to format the drive you have put in.
But do back up your stuff on the drive, before you go formatting drives 
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Luke1.4
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Registered: 2nd Dec 02
Location: Blackpool
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if its xp you can do it off you xp disc
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Drew
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Registered: 24th Nov 01
Location: County Durham
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ites windows 2000
think ive put all the stuff i want onto other drive
time to find my boot floppys it looks like 
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Drew
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Registered: 24th Nov 01
Location: County Durham
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can i use a win 98 boot floppy??
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Super_si
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Registered: 4th Mar 01
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yes
www.bootdisk.com
Si
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Drew
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Location: County Durham
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cheers si - cya's later
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