At 11:30 -0700 on 29/07/02, Vern Andrews wrote: >Finally, I got my SE/30 internal HD formatted !!! Thanks to everyone >who helped with many suggestions. It appears that the one thing >which was keeping the HD from being formatted was that Virtual Memory >was on ! > >I tried many (about 15) HD tools, but the only one which gave me a >clue was Drive Setup (1.5 or 1.6.1), with a message that said there >was a file that was busy, and that I should try turning off Virtual >Memory ! Well, after turning off Virtual Memory, restarting, the HD >formatted in no time.
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