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my modem went down for a while this morning, i got bored so went to clean up old crap i have on my slave HD (D:) , films mp3's etc..i found a folder and cannot delete it. i found this folder within a folder within a folder lol, when i put my cusrsor over the folder it says it is 4.09 MB but there is nowt in the folder.

i have moved EVERYTHING from my slave to my primary drive except the folder i could not delete. when i look at the disk space used on my slave it says there is 6GB of 28GB used. 6GB of what? my slave HD was used as my primary HD ages ago, could this be explain this hidden 6GB of stuff? it was formatted before i used it as a slave so .... sigh

as u can tell im not to good at computer stuff..hehe

anyway, in My Computer i put my cursor over drive D and select format but cant as a message says another program is using information on this drive etc. how can this be? am i formatting this drive in noob style? if so is it better to format D: in DOS or can it be done with my XP disk? :confused:
 
hmm did you try to do: tools>folder options>view>uncheck show hidden files and folders, and unhide protected os files hehe

hope this help
 
my cusrsor over the folder it says it is 4.09 MB but there is nowt in the folder.
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Yes there is or else it wouldnt say that.... the files are hidden, sort this out by going through folder options

used as my primary HD ages ago, could this be explain this hidden 6GB of stuff?
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once again, hidden files, but 6Gb sounds like hidden sindows system files....

anyway, in My Computer i put my cursor over drive D and select format but cant as a message says another program is using information on this drive etc. how can this be? am i formatting this drive in noob style? if so is it better to format D: in DOS or can it be done with my XP disk?
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Well, its not exactly noob style, more like windows being REALLY unhelpful.... a better way to format D: would be to open up a cmd prompt by going START - RUN - cmd........ and then type in "format D:/", it will say that it cant lock the drive and do you want to format it on next boot..... press Y
 
Thx dragon ,


i went ...... START - RUN - cmd. it said warning: all data on non-removable disk drive D: will be lost. i typed Y to proceed.

it then said - - format cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. format may run if this volume is dismounted first.ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.would you like to force a dismount on this volume (Y/N)
 
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