I wanted more extra space on my computer so i installed an old hard drive I had for it to accompany my SSD. I want to get rid of the old stuff on it so i tried formatting it only to receive this message:
"This drive is in use. Another program or process is using this drive. Do you want to format it anyway?"
i click yes and get this message:
"Windows cannot format this drive. Quit any disk utilities or other programs that are using this drive, and make sure that no window is displaying the contents of the drive. Then try formatting again"
So i make sure that i am following the directions and it appears i'm doing nothing wrong.
So i try using Disk Management and it doesn't give me the option to format when i right click on the drive
So i try using DiskPart making sure the drive i want to format is selected and try the commands "format" and "clean" and for both i get this message:
"Format/Clean is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile,
crashdump or hibernation volume."
/: not sure what to do at this point. Send help please.
"This drive is in use. Another program or process is using this drive. Do you want to format it anyway?"
i click yes and get this message:
"Windows cannot format this drive. Quit any disk utilities or other programs that are using this drive, and make sure that no window is displaying the contents of the drive. Then try formatting again"
So i make sure that i am following the directions and it appears i'm doing nothing wrong.
So i try using Disk Management and it doesn't give me the option to format when i right click on the drive
So i try using DiskPart making sure the drive i want to format is selected and try the commands "format" and "clean" and for both i get this message:
"Format/Clean is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile,
crashdump or hibernation volume."
/: not sure what to do at this point. Send help please.