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I have a home computer whose boot drive has crashed. I
had the drive backed up on a slave from which I have
restored to most of the data to a newly purchased boot
drive. I'd like to reformat the slave and use it for
backup. I have deleted all the data on the 120GB drive
and from Windows XP Professional, no files appear.
But "Properties" indicates that 9.39GB of this drive is
occupied with files.
From the command prompt, I have done a "dir/s" and find
thousands of system files that don't appear in
Windows....mostly numbered .dll and .exe files. I have
attempted to format this slave from Windows, but Windows
refuses to format a drive that contains system files. How
do I format this drive from either the command prompt or
Windows XP Professional since a search of the new boot
drive finds no FDISK.EXE? Life is never simple.....
I have a home computer whose boot drive has crashed. I
had the drive backed up on a slave from which I have
restored to most of the data to a newly purchased boot
drive. I'd like to reformat the slave and use it for
backup. I have deleted all the data on the 120GB drive
and from Windows XP Professional, no files appear.
But "Properties" indicates that 9.39GB of this drive is
occupied with files.
From the command prompt, I have done a "dir/s" and find
thousands of system files that don't appear in
Windows....mostly numbered .dll and .exe files. I have
attempted to format this slave from Windows, but Windows
refuses to format a drive that contains system files. How
do I format this drive from either the command prompt or
Windows XP Professional since a search of the new boot
drive finds no FDISK.EXE? Life is never simple.....