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Windows 7 - Can't format non-system partition?
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| 01-12-2012 | #1 |
| | Can't format non-system partition? hey mates, I have a downloads partition D: drive. it's empty. there's no system stuff on it. I made that partition so could reformat it regularly (could hdd hygiene   ).Anyways, it's not letting me reformat it. Saying some other app is using it. i have closed all apps though. I'd prefer to NOT have to boot up on system disks to resolve this because well that's a hassle and I made the paritition in the first place so could just regularly do a quick reformat easily. thanks. |
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| 01-12-2012 | #2 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by johntkucz  hey mates, I have a downloads partition D: drive. it's empty. there's no system stuff on it. I made that partition so could reformat it regularly (could hdd hygiene ).Anyways, it's not letting me reformat it. Saying some other app is using it. i have closed all apps though. I'd prefer to NOT have to boot up on system disks to resolve this because well that's a hassle and I made the paritition in the first place so could just regularly do a quick reformat easily. thanks. Might be open in explorer, or your malware might monitoring it etc. If those fail any good 3rd party partitioning sware (trials are free) like Parigon disk suite will do it in a heart beat. |
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| 01-12-2012 | #3 |
| | You mean from a CMD prompt: D: (to get into your D partition) and then: DIR /AH shows NO hidden files/directories and DIR shows absolutely nothing? I wonder if System Volume Information is still on there. |
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| 01-14-2012 | #4 |
| | Wow I can think of few things this frustrating. Was about to defenestrate the dell laptop. I booted off Win 7 cd... The ability to format was GREYED out. I booted off a version of GParted boot cd. The cd kept clicking and stalled.   frickin' hell!! More info: The 20gb drive shows 4gb are used but it's empty. Could that be hidden malware? Reveal hidden files solves nothing. Either way I need to format it and only way seems some formatting app. |
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| 01-14-2012 | #5 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by JimLewandowski You mean from a CMD prompt: D: (to get into your D partition) and then: DIR /AH shows NO hidden files/directories and DIR shows absolutely nothing? I wonder if System Volume Information is still on there. |
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| 01-14-2012 | #6 |
| | That results in DIR Recycle.bin ~4gb pagefile.sys DIR System Volume Information 1 File 2 Dirs |
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| 01-14-2012 | #8 |
| | ****ing Hell. Using format D: with Admin privs on cmd requests to unmount. "y" and then it says Cannot lock the drive. The volume is still in use. Beginning to think this is a hidden trojan/virus/malware. all the more reason to format D: asap bloody hell I am downloading a ubuntu live cd to boot off that and use gparted which often works. |
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| 01-14-2012 | #9 |
| | Can you post a screen shot of Disk management? |
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| 01-14-2012 | #10 |
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