In some situations you may want to delete a formatting job for a partition on computers. It may be either a Symantec LiveState Delivery partitioned or Fdisk partitioned computer.
You cannot delete formatting jobs for computers that have operating system packages installed.
Warning: Deleting a formatting job that is in the process of being executed or that has been executed may cause the computers to fail if the computers are later reset.
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Warning:
– The computers must have the same number of disks and
partitions.
– All the selected computers must have been partitioned with
Symantec LiveState Delivery or all the selected computers must have
been partitioned with Fdisk.
To delete a formatting job on computers
Click All Computers to display the computers in the Result pane.
In the Result pane, select and right-click the computers from which you want to delete a formatting job.
Click Configure Disks. The Configure Disks dialog box appears showing the current partitioning and formatting configuration for each computer.
Click the Disk # tab for the disk whose formatting job you want to delete.
Right-click the Partition/Format # button whose formatting job you want to delete and click Delete Format Job.
In the Delete Format Job dialog box you can choose to delete the format job from either the selected partition or from a selected drive letter.
Click OK. The Configure Disks dialog box displays the deleted format job as "No Format Job".
Click OK. If the computers already have software assigned to this partition, a confirmation dialog box appears for you to delete these jobs. Click Yes.
To delete additional format jobs, repeat Step 5 and subsequent steps.
After you finish defining all the format jobs you want to delete, click OK in the Configure Disks dialog box.
See also...
Partitioning and Formatting Disks