unable to format

[niku_19jan]

hi all
i hav acer travelmate2300
Intel pentium M 715 processor (1.5 GHz, 400Mhz FSB, 2Mb L2 chache)
40 Gb Hdd, 256 Mb ram
i hav 2 os on my lap. On c drive i hav windows 2000 & on d drive XP Service Pack 2. so i logged in xp n tried to format c drive using format command from windows explorer & command prompt but after processing it says
"WINDOWS IS UNABLE TO FORMAT"
I DNT KNW WAT IS WRONG?
so plz help me out.

thnks

 

[QwertyManiac]

I guess your pagefile might have been on C:/ and thus its like, protected against a format. If you have the XP disc, boot from it and enter recovery console and format C:/

 

[Choto Cheeta]

well in any way u shouldnt format ur C drive... u will loss Windows XP too... as Boot.ini and other Boot files which is requird by Windows XP is in C driver...

if u format C .. it will be painfull to recover Windows XP too.. u may have to then reinstall Windows XP ...

 

[overclocker]

Hmm... saurav cheeta may be correct... but ok lol go to this Microsoft Knowledge base link which is provided for u to format ur XP.. *support.microsoft.com/kb/q315341/...
This is completely depends on u... so this link will give u some idea abt formatting.