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hi all.
I've got a prob(weird one).
I installed win 2000(upgrade from 98se) the other day with a fat32 format . And now I would like to dual boot it with win 98me.
Here's the prob. comes in. After reading a few help files I decided that I would have to re-format my hdd and then partition it (since it wasn't partitioned before)
When I went to format the hhd a message came up that reads as such:
"format cannot run because the volume is in use by another process, format may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDELS TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID
would you like to force a dismount on this volume?(y/n)"
I say yes then another message comes up :
" cannot lock the drive, the volume is still in use"
I exited out of all running prog(even uninstalled all but the basics that come with os) Then tried again with the same results.
any ideas out there why I can't format my hdd?
os>>win 2000 pro (logged on as admin)
cpu>>800mhz
256mb ram
drive is formatted in Fat32
I've got a prob(weird one).
I installed win 2000(upgrade from 98se) the other day with a fat32 format . And now I would like to dual boot it with win 98me.
Here's the prob. comes in. After reading a few help files I decided that I would have to re-format my hdd and then partition it (since it wasn't partitioned before)
When I went to format the hhd a message came up that reads as such:
"format cannot run because the volume is in use by another process, format may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDELS TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID
would you like to force a dismount on this volume?(y/n)"
I say yes then another message comes up :
" cannot lock the drive, the volume is still in use"
I exited out of all running prog(even uninstalled all but the basics that come with os) Then tried again with the same results.
any ideas out there why I can't format my hdd?
os>>win 2000 pro (logged on as admin)
cpu>>800mhz
256mb ram
drive is formatted in Fat32
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