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FalKon

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Me and my friend were reformatting his hd and its his only one, we went into command prompt and did format C: Then this comes up. "Format can not run because the volume is in use by another process. Format may run if the volume is dismounted first. ALL OPEN HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID. Would you like to forse a dismount on this volume. Y/N I pressed y to try and continue but it said "Can not lock the drive, the volume is still in use. We also tried using the windows xp cd but it didnt completly reformat it it just cleaned it up and some of the files were still there, how can we go about completely reformatting it besides shaking it really hard(hehe jk)
 
when you use the windows xp disk to reinstall when it get to the point that you chose a partion to put it on chose delete partition then create partition then install it. If you do this when installing it will format the harddrive before installing.
 
I tried to format my HDD with the recovery disc. I was trying to fix an issue because the scan disc and disc defrag were not running. Neither would completely run before but after the drive was formatted the recovery disc loaded everything that was originally on the system. The disc defrag still will not run and the scan disc found one bad cluster after 1.5Hrs into it, then it restarted.

I don't know why I'm trying to fix this because I bought a new HDD. Can a bad cluster on the disc be fixed? If so, what do I need to fix it?
 
It's too old to return but I have been trying to get scan disk to completely scan thru the whole drive. When it found the damaged cluster it said it would mark that cluster as un-repairable so future data would not be stored there. Then it said to rerun scan disk again to recognize the change. Well I don't know if this is normal but my scan disk process, which has never run thru completely yet, takes at least 3 hours to get about 50% complete. Is this normal?
 
Interesting, I have been using the Windows scan disk. I now have Norton Utilities, which has a scan disk or speed disk process. Do you think that would be faster?
 
Kevin O'Connor said:
Interesting, I have been using the Windows scan disk. I now have Norton Utilities, which has a scan disk or speed disk process. Do you think that would be faster?
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Is this a rhetorical question?





Well if it is not:



Yes. Norton Disk Doctor, WinDoctor, and Speed Disk can do nothing but improve the speed of your system, along with find and fix errors to your HDD(s) and Windows OS.

 
Me and my friend were reformatting his hd and its his only one, we went into command prompt and did format C: Then this comes up. "Format can not run because the volume is in use by another process. Format may run if the volume is dismounted first. ALL OPEN HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID. Would you like to forse a dismount on this volume. Y/N I pressed y to try and continue but it said "Can not lock the drive, the volume is still in use. We also tried using the windows xp cd but it didnt completly reformat it it just cleaned it up and some of the files were still there, how can we go about completely reformatting it besides shaking it really hard(hehe jk)
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If you're toasting the current boot drive you need to do it from boottime rather than operation time
 
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