Disc error

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Just put in a Hard Drive from another pc and need to format it.

When i try i keep getting the following error - Windows can't format this drive, Quit any disk utilities or other programs that are using this drive and try agian formating" error when you try to format your drive?

any ideas?

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Soldato
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It can also be something simple like windows explorer is showing the contents of the drive - try going to start/computer and then right clik the drive in question and select format - should work.

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