Hi Guys this is Jamie from http://www.system22.net and http://www.great-webdesign.com/ here's a short
video to show you how to get around a
problem that I sometimes have if you've
got a discs that's protected you want to
format it you can't do it in Disk
Management I'll show you what I mean if
you open up your control panel and go to
admin tools computer management and then
we're going to click on the disk
management tab there this is where we
usually manage all like this what have
you and a regular partition or such as
this if you right click on it it gives
you the option to format and do what you
what you would like to do to it but
you've got protected partitions on all
of these and if you right-click you
can't do a whole lot with those so one
way to get around that is to open the
command prompt and do a disk part c'mon
I'll show you how to do that now so if
we open up our command prompt by hitting
the start button and typing CMD you want
to right click on it run it as
administrator that's very important and
we're going to enter the command disk
Part D is kPa RT and now we want to list
the disks list disk and it shows us that
the distance that I've hooked up to this
computer and when you in the computer
management or disk management console
you want to make a note of the dis
number that you want to work on because
otherwise you're going to wipe out if
you get this which is not good and so
we're going to select disk 2 so select
- and it says it's selected we'll just
check that by writing disk product again
list disks and there should be a little
star by that now and as you see there's
a little star by that which means we've
actually got that one selected so we're
safe to go ahead and do what we need to
do here and and the way we're going to
do that we're going to use the clean
command CLE a.m. and once we do that
it's going to wipe out everything
partition wise and everything on that
disk so you want to make sure that
you're absolutely sure that this is the
disk that you want to get rid of okay
so let's go ahead and do that it may
take a minute or two once it's done just
clean that disk and now if we get out of
the command prompt here the computer
should recognize that Jessica Szohr new
disk and asked us to initialize it let's
have a look back in our disk management
console there it is it says you must
initialize the disk before logical disk
manager can access it we go I'm going to
go ahead and do that because that way I
can use it and go ahead and do a format
new simple volume that's fine give it
any old drive letter that's available
there and we'll do a quick format and
that's all there is to it finish and as
you can see it's formatting right there
and that's it job done you've managed to
get rid of those politicians that were
not letting you delete them and now we
can use the whole of this desk it's now
formatted and recognizing enters a new
for you so there you have it that's how
to use the disk part in the command
prompt when your disk management console
can't delete a partition for you so I
hope that's been helpful to you
this has been Jamie from system 22 IT
solutions and great web design hope you
have a great day thanks for watching bye
bye
you
