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Title: How do I stop avast from running?
Post by: XkR73 on January 03, 2011, 06:06:11 AM

I need to reformat my D:\\ drive on my computer, which, coincidentally, is where Avast! is saved. To reformat, I need to stop avast from running.

I can't find an option to do this.

Title: Re: How do I stop avast from running?
Post by: Tarq57 on January 03, 2011, 06:25:44 AM

Just uninstall it from the control panel, since reformatting the drive will effectively delete it, anyway.

Have the installer file saved elsewhere for easy installation after the drive is formatted.

Title: Re: How do I stop avast from running?
Post by: XkR73 on January 03, 2011, 06:32:29 AM

thanks.

why is it always the simplest things that evade you at half five in the morning? :p

Title: Re: How do I stop avast from running?
Post by: Tarq57 on January 03, 2011, 07:29:36 AM

Are you sure you want to be Tired In Charge of a computer format at 5.30?  ;D

Honestly, at that sort of time of day, I'm doublechecking pretty much everything that might be important. I'm crap in the morning.

(I used to think I was an evening person, but things never got much better after lunch.)

Title: Re: How do I stop avast from running?
Post by: XkR73 on January 03, 2011, 02:07:29 PM

Still having issues reformatting. all i want to do is get rid of ~57 gb of pure unadulterated crap!

Title: Re: How do I stop avast from running?
Post by: DavidR on January 03, 2011, 05:28:17 PM

What is on drive D: ?
It isn't your Boot drive by any chance ?
As strange as it seems this does/can happen by design or accident.

How are you trying to reformat ?
What errors are displayed ?

Title: Re: How do I stop avast from running?
Post by: XkR73 on January 03, 2011, 09:35:54 PM

i managed to fix it. turns out i was running more programs than i thought off it.

The reason i needed to reformat the drive was so that i could free up space to organise my music collection and picture collection, as every other drive has about 500mb free... i collected a lot of crap ^-^

Title: Re: How do I stop avast from running?
Post by: DavidR on January 03, 2011, 10:54:01 PM

OK, glad that you have resolved it.