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D: drive can not be formatted - help!

Asked by delian2009 in Windows XP Operating System, Computer Hard Drives, Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: Windows XP

Hi there

I've got an EEEpc loaded with Windows XP SP3.

I noticed that on the D: drive the space wasn't being released when the disk was cleared down, so I decided to format the drive. It seemed to work ok, but then I realised that although it had emptied everything, it had not actually formatted the partition.

Now I can not access the D: drive at all

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Here's what I get when I try and do stuff from the command line:

C:\Documents and Settings\Dan>chkdsk d:
Cannot open volume for direct access.

C:\Documents and Settings\Dan>format d:
Cannot open volume for direct access.
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When I click on the D: drive in My Computer i get asked the following:

The disk in drive d is not formatted
Do you want to format it now?

YES

The disk in drive D cannot be formatted
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Other notes:

The Disk Management screen of Computer Management is blank. Not even the C: drive is shown there

My Computer -> right click D: -> Properties: Says type = local disk and File system = RAW. Used and free space = 0 bytes

I am away from home at the moment and neither have the software or an external cd rom drive to do a rebuild.

If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this i'd be most grateful!

Cheers
Dan


 
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