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Exclusive Use of Hard Drive

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Taco

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I am trying to delete a partition using Disk Administrator in Windows NT 4.0 SP6a. I get the following error:

The drive can not be locked for exclusive use. Please check to see if some applications are currently accessing the drive. If so, close them and try again.

Nothing has written to this drive in over a month and I can not figure out what application is currently using this drive. I checked Server Manager and it reports 0 users using 0 files.

Any ideas on how to obtain exclusive use of this drive?
 
I got it! I was able to assign no drive letter to that partition, reboot and then delete the partition and do what I needed.
 
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