Re: [MBZ] more windoze struggles

2007-07-07 Thread Mitch Haley
Gary Hurst wrote: > > first off, i have 2 machines that simply won't let me format the hard drives > as they seem to think something is running that prevents me from formatting > them. any thoughts? Anti-virus with boot sector protection? ___ http://www.ok

Re: [MBZ] more windoze struggles

2007-07-07 Thread OK Don
Formating - are you trying to format the drive that Windows boots from? - Don't think it will let you do that. You could boot from a floppy or CD with enough DOS or Linux to let you format the drive. Cardbus - Have you read this paper? http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/cardbus1.mspx On 7/7/07

[MBZ] more windoze struggles

2007-07-07 Thread Gary Hurst
first off, i have 2 machines that simply won't let me format the hard drives as they seem to think something is running that prevents me from formatting them. any thoughts? secondly, and more importantly, i'm trying to add pcmcia slots on these machines. i have 2 different cards from 2 different