can't reformat 2nd hard disk

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When windows in normal mode, if I right click on E disk and click format,
fill in the info and click OK, I get a message can't do. If I'm in safe
mode, same thing. If I'm in safe mode command line, I don't know what I'm
doing. And, I can't see anything in the BIOS that'll allow me to reformat a
hard disk, although I suppose it is there.

Can somebody help me?

dennist685

 

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If you are an administrator you can format any logical drive. However, if
your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may prevent
you from completing this procedure.

Go to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Disk Management. Be sure to
read the directions very carefully.
--
Ted Zieglar


"dennist685" <dennist685@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:00CD6620-D7E6-4FC9-99AC-B0A8C1D90704@microsoft.com...
> When windows in normal mode, if I right click on E disk and click format,
> fill in the info and click OK, I get a message can't do. If I'm in safe
> mode, same thing. If I'm in safe mode command line, I don't know what I'm
> doing. And, I can't see anything in the BIOS that'll allow me to reformat
a
> hard disk, although I suppose it is there.
>
> Can somebody help me?
>
> dennist685

 

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Ted,

In the end after some tweaking, it worked.

dennist685

"Ted Zieglar" wrote:

> If you are an administrator you can format any logical drive. However, if
> your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may prevent
> you from completing this procedure.
>
> Go to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Disk Management. Be sure to
> read the directions very carefully.
> --
> Ted Zieglar
>
>
> "dennist685" <dennist685@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:00CD6620-D7E6-4FC9-99AC-B0A8C1D90704@microsoft.com...
> > When windows in normal mode, if I right click on E disk and click format,
> > fill in the info and click OK, I get a message can't do. If I'm in safe
> > mode, same thing. If I'm in safe mode command line, I don't know what I'm
> > doing. And, I can't see anything in the BIOS that'll allow me to reformat
> a
> > hard disk, although I suppose it is there.
> >
> > Can somebody help me?
> >
> > dennist685
>
>
>