Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
Mon May 9 13:16:25 CDT 2005
Gary, Steve, and everybody, That's wonderful! I don't remember using the /x switch before, but I sure will remember it for the future. The earl.ier times I have had similar problems were as I mentioned above - a file on the disk was left open and the disk removed. A friend of mine saved all his data in Excel spreadsheets, and worried about using up too much hard drive space, he always saved to a diskette instead of to the hard drive. One day after he had made new calculations and saved his file, he took the disk out of the drive without closing the file or the program. Then he closed the program. The next time he wanted to use his diskette he couldn't - he had to reconstruct his entire spreadsheet from scratch. Next, he tried to format the disk and got the same sort of nasty messages we've been talking about. Thanks for sharing the information about anti-virus programs holding onto disks they find in the drive - and the /x switch!!! Have a great day, Tina Steve Erbach wrote: >Gary, > >Gad! I do believe that's it. I have a disk formatting on one of my >workstations as I type this. Thank you. > >Steve Erbach > >On 5/9/05, Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote: > > >>More info, same suggestion. >> >>http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/gjjones/administrivia/categories/computerHelpdesk/2003/06/12.html >> >>Try the /x parameter. >> >> >> >>