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How do I Erase, Format & Reuse Tapes on Seagate Tape Drive

My client has an old Dell workstation running Win 2000. He backs up his important data to a Seagate Tape Drive (don't have the exact model # on me now) each night using the Retrospect Backup Software that came w/ the tape drive.

I recently created a new backup script using Retrospect. However, when I try to run it, the program refuses to use the tape inside the drive b/c it is already part of another backup set, and it wants me to put in a brand new tape.

How do I go about taking one of the old backup tapes and reformatting it so that I can use it like a new blank tape? I didn't see any obvious way to do this in Retrospect? And I can't format it in Windows Explorer b/c it doesn't see the tape drive as an available volume.

Is there a utility I can download that will allow me to do this?
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