I try to understand what are the programs to stop to allow me to reformat a disk with errors on this subject. Says Windows stop disc of all monitoring programs.
Here is the error message:
Windows cannot format this drive. Quit the disk utilities or other programs that use this disk and make sure that no window displays the contents of the disc. Then try formatting again.
How do I tell me is that a 'disk utility '?
Running Norton
WIN XP SP3
I guess that it is an external disk or non-system auxiliary.
Try to start in safe mode (repeatedly button tap the F8 key during the startup of the system). This will prevent all but the most necessary to run programs. Once started in Safe Mode, try reformat.then.
HTH,
JW
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