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Fdisk reports write-protect error and Primary DOS partition cannot be created. Manufacturer (Seagate) utility cannot write zeroes to drive. I think the drive is toast! Thanks anyway.

Sorry can't help, but coincidentally I have old Packard Bell 133Mhz that sees the hard drive every other boot and reports hard drive is write protected. CMOS battery is part of motherboard, don't even see sodder points. I guess PB didn't build to last. R.I.P.

No reason to think the battery is dead. Time being kept, hardware configuration is being kept.

What does it mean when the hard drive is autiodetected by the BIOS, every other boot? I have checked for viruses. Replaced hard drive. Second hard drive experiences same symptoms. Now you see it, now you don't. When it boots to floppy, Scandisk reports FAT error prevents ScanDisk from...

I tested in Excel and got this showing that you have to subtract one from the number of months, and 1900 from the number of years to get what you originally wanted. BirthDate 6/1/01 5/4/52 1/1/02 6/1/91 Today 5/31/02 2/23/02 2/23/02 5/31/92 Diff(days) 364 18192 53 365 =Year()...

You need to check al the usual Startup items. 1) C:\WINDOWS\STARTMENU\PROGRAMS\STARTUP 2) WIN.INI "load=" and "Run=" 3) Autoexec.bat (unlikely) 4) The dreaded registry. Much to detailed to list. Use System Configuration Utility is easiest. Also, when Windows is starting...

The subtraction of one date from another is in days, not a date. So it does work unless there is a Time tacked onto the dates being subtracted which might throw it off slightly.

I created a database to do that see www.geocities.com/mikeythedog (This is a small version of a Monster I created with Access, that catalogues hundreds of rolls of film for an Engineering projetc I worked on. I do a directory *.jpg to file, import to Access then run a report that looks like...

Is it possible somebody on the network opened it with Access 2000? You can also try "msaccess.exe database1.mdb /repair" OR "msaccess.exe database1.mdb /compact database2.mdb" on the Access command line

OOPS! That path should include \Program Files\, but I tested and it works.

You need to use Excel Function CONCATENATE(A1,A2,A3,A4,A5) and place the new Description in a new cell. Or Use a Word macro on your original file to automate the replacement of the ",**". Word macros can be run with a command line, even in Access with a Macro like this "RunApp...

You can subtract one date from the other then extract Years , Months, and Days sort of like this: DeltaDate=Date2-Date1 Years=YEAR(DeltaDate) Months=MONTH(DeltaDate) Days=DAY(DeltaDate)

YOu can specify the format of a date as "mm/dd/yyyy" in the fields properties

It just seem to easy, but I have done this with a query to produce a scratch field called Hour calculated from the time. Hour(date)

One possible solution, is to Boot to ms_dos prompt (command line only). RUN SCANREG /RESTORE to restore an old copy of the registry.