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Dean Pilot	posted 10-25- 07:42 PM Having made my first foray onto the SDOE network to fly online, when doing a fix up on my hard drive afterwards, and attempting to format the c drive ,I got a message saying 'cannot format a networked drive' .....how do I remove this obstacle...... it has only happened since logging onto the sdoe network option. ------------------ IP: Logged
Mighty General	posted 10-26- 12:04 AM First, this is not related to SDOE. The fact that you flew online is coincidence. Format drive C? Was that a typo? When I format my boot drive I usually boot from a floppy into MS-DOS mode. That way I don't have to worry about Format wiping out a file that Windows is currently using. In MS-DOS mode, Windows isn't using anything. I've seen this error message before. If I remember rightly, it's caused by Explorer. The sequence of events is like this: - You highlight the drive you want to format in Explorer - You right-click and choose format - Format churns for awhile and then gives one of a few messages indicating that it doesn't want to format the drive Since you have the drive highlighted and visible in the right-hand pane of Explorer, Format thinks the drive is in use. What you have to do is: - Highlight some other drive, any drive, like a floppy or a CD-ROM - Right-click (Not left-click) on the drive you want to format That way, Explorer is out of the way and Format will agree to do its stuff IP: Logged
Dean Pilot	posted 10-26- 12:37 AM No , it wasn't a typo :-) I wanted to re-format the hard drive, and received the message 'cannot format a networked drive' I've never had this notice before, a re-format is a straightforward process, and I'd like to find out how to get round this obstacle :-) ------------------ IP: Logged

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