no
not in NT you can't
you can go to the prompt and type format c and it will prompt you that the drive is in use and lock and would you like to unlock it and when you say yes it will tell you if couldn't
But you could also boot from a floopy and do it before hitting window nt, then again it wouldn't read the ntfs format unless you had something like Winternatanls NTFSDOS boot disk...
so it is either a low level, NTFSboot disk, or inside the install
which is not hard, it is actually one of the first real options you are offered.
By the way, I learned computers starting in 1986 on one of the first ibm pc's, you know, no hard drive two 360k floppys and it was a monster...
Of course you could always run at the command line
debug: c800 ( or what ever rombios area your drives IDEchipset registers to, so you can enter the onboard(on the hard drives motherboard) cmos, and use brute force to kick it into a factor format, though it would blow your mapped bad sectors which are stored on the drive in a hidden area and in the on chip cache which would no longer match up so you would find bad sectors later on at the most un oppertune time.
why, were did you learn computers?
