Can't Format... Help

[gzollinger1]

I am working on building a computer for my father-in-law and had everything up and running fine. I went to reformat the hard drive and I get a "not enough memory to proceed" error. The drive is a 45G IBM Deskstar. I have two partitions a 40G System C: and a 4G Secondary D: I reformated the D: just fine, but when I went to format the c: I got the error. Here is another wierd thing I found out. When I go into FDISK and look at the partitions they show the 4G and the 40G and I'm pretty sure that at one time I could see 40G showing in explorer. However, when I look now, c: shows the capacity at just over 7G. This shows up as 7G in DOS as well. I have tried both a format and a quick format and both get the error. One other thing, other than the problem I'm having, everything else seems OK (I'm using the computer to post this message). I hope someone can give me more ideas of things to try, because I'm at a loss. Thanks.

 

[ax57]

Did you boot from the C drive that you were trying to format? Make a startup disk and boot from that, then try to format the C drive from the A drive. (Or the ramdisk it makes, depending on which operating system you're using.) It should proceed with the format without any problem.

ax57

 

[ax57]

Double post.

ax57

 

[gzollinger1]

I tried formating from all of the drives. I din't have any luck. I ended up removing the actual partitions and rebuilding them, and everything worked fine. Thanks.