Of course you cannot format the drive the OS is on from within that OS.
You said disk Management shows it as 300gb..........does it show any
unallocated space?? more than 1 partition??
what it exactly does it show???
What version of Vista??
peter
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> I've got a 300gb ata133 drive as master. I've got several other drives and
> have windows installed on one. Well, the OS only sees 127gb and it's a
> 300gb drive. It was working fine before, but now not all is seen.
> Partition magic 805 says bad on the drive for bad partition info or
> something. format does not work and pmagic cannot format or create a
> partition on it or anything.
> dos format does not work nor does right clicking on the drive and saying
> format.
>
> the disk management in vista also shows it as the 300gb, but it won't let
> me format it or anything.
> no messages that help at all as unable to format is all that happens.
>