Third Hard drive problem.

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I have a 3rd hard drive connected to a USB2 board. It is broken into 2
partitions. I run xpsp2 prof. There is a directory which I cannot access or
delete. I cannot fdisk it either. How would I clean this out so that there
are no files in this partition so that I can reformat it?

 

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"Bullwinkle. J. Moose" <moose.nyc@nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I have a 3rd hard drive connected to a USB2 board. It is broken into 2
> partitions. I run xpsp2 prof. There is a directory which I cannot access
or
> delete. I cannot fdisk it either. How would I clean this out so that there
> are no files in this partition so that I can reformat it?

How did you "fdisk" your drive? There is no fdisk.exe under
WinXP - it's a Win9x command.

I would use the WinXP Storage Manager to delete all partitions
on the problem disk. You can then create new partitions and
format them.

 

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Thanks. I found that out. I ended up by going to the windows xp resource kit
and used the disk management module to reformat the problem drive.

It worked. Thanks for your help.

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Bullwinkle. J. Moose" <moose.nyc@nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:OnAraHGyEHA.2788@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> I have a 3rd hard drive connected to a USB2 board. It is broken into 2
>> partitions. I run xpsp2 prof. There is a directory which I cannot access
> or
>> delete. I cannot fdisk it either. How would I clean this out so that
>> there
>> are no files in this partition so that I can reformat it?
>
> How did you "fdisk" your drive? There is no fdisk.exe under
> WinXP - it's a Win9x command.
>
> I would use the WinXP Storage Manager to delete all partitions
> on the problem disk. You can then create new partitions and
> format them.
>
>