DISKPART - what drive - Command Prompt?

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go to start/run, and type:

HH ms-its:%windir%\Help\bootcons.chm::/bootcons_diskpart.htm

You are probably trying to partition a drive with the system installed on it.

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Mark L. Ferguson
FAQ for Windows Antispy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
"Stephen" <stephen@knight04july.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message news:%23bmERvFmFHA.1372@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> Following very helpful advice from this group
> I THINK I need to use DISKPART to reinstall a
> partition on a slave drive, so that I can format it.
>
> When I format the drive it ends up saying;
> 'unable to format this drive'
>
> In Disk Mananagment it is showing as;
>
> Layout = Partition
> Type = Basic
> File System = (nothing is shown)
> Status = Healthy (Active)
> Capacity = 37.31GB
> Free Space = 37.31GB
> % Free = 100%
> Fault Tolerance = No
> Overhead = 0%
>
> My question;
>
> I need help with Command Prompt.
>
> From C\Documents and settings\Stephen>
>
> I have typed the following;
> DISKPART (enter)
> G: (enter)
>
> I then get a list of options - at this point am I
> dealing with DISK C or DISK G ??
>
> I can't remember any DOS - but shouldn't I change
> the DIR to 'G' before entering DISKPART.
>
> If so how?
>
> As you can see I'm not totally sure, and I do not
> want to cock up my main C drive.
>
> Any help with this would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks a lot, Stephen.
>