Formatting old C Drive (PLEASE HELP!!!)

[Reflow4]

when i go to format my old C Drive it says a program is running on it
i've checked nothing is

i've cloned that old drive to a new one already

 

What should i do?

[Electronics Wizardy]

screenshot?

 

Is the drive mounted currently?

[Reflow4]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

screenshot?

 

Is the drive mounted currently?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Reflow4 said:

 

Is this in disk management?

 

can you do a clean in diskpart?

[Reflow4]

it was my old C Drive that i cloned to a new ssd 

[Kanna]

Just now, Reflow4 said:

 

Just press yes then

[Reflow4]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Is this in disk management?

 

can you do a clean in diskpart?

no it's in file explorer 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Reflow4 said:

no it's in file explorer 

go do a clean in diskpart then

 

 

[Reflow4]

2 minutes ago, Kanna said:

Just press yes then

i would like to do that, though i don't want to mess anything up 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Reflow4 said:

i would like to do that, though i don't want to mess anything up 

your goal is to wipe the drive, it can't hurt anything.

[bardman]

fdisk then format? old school

 

[bardman]

bear in mind its gone then

[Kanna]

5 minutes ago, Reflow4 said:

i would like to do that, though i don't want to mess anything up 

Nothing will mess up maybe just some old autorun driver or simmlar

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

your goal is to wipe the drive, it can't hurt anything.

^

[Wiebenor]

Well... Here's a question that somebody might not have thought of. Is the person in question sure that he is booting off of the right drive? Cuz it sounds like he's trying to format his c drive, which means that he's formatting the drive he is currently booted off of. My advice would be to see if the new drive is the drive that's being booted from, and change that to the boot drive if it isn't. That way they can take the old drive and format it no problem. Generally what happens When you are formatting a hard drive, is it checks if the drive is in use, which will be the case if you are running off of said drive. That is why all of those programs that modify your drive structure and format stuff that don't come from windows, and even the ones that do, reboot your computer beforehand. It's so that they can format and/or copy drives without certain drivers and hardware abstraction layers and things in the way preventing them from having free reign on the drive. Or, that has been my usual experience anyway...

[III_ELITE_lll]

13 hours ago, Reflow4 said:

when i go to format my old C Drive it says a program is running on it
i've checked nothing is

i've cloned that old drive to a new one already

 

What should i do?

you should make your new drive c drive and make sure your booting and running your system on it