Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 09:13:09 CST 2006
I'm guessing it uses RAMBUS memory??? My main workhorse machine uses Rambus memory and is therefore cost prohibitive to upgrade as well. Fortunately I have 512MB in mine. Perhaps one of those bootable Linux distributions would work for you to get it formatted?? I think I would look at a Motherboard replacement from someplace like Tigerdirect. Dell makes nice cases so those are perhaps worth the while of putting in new guts. New MB with onboard video and sound and networking. Some new RAM, maybe a new HD too, probably cost $200. Course you still need an OS then anyway.....You are planning to put a fresh copy of ME back on it??? DON'T!!!! Or rather, don't waste your time if you are intending to do that. A lot of work and you will still be left with ME. With no patches anymore either I don't think right? Or is ME still supported? Is there perhaps a Drivers and Utilities CD?? Any help off that? Did you try and actually boot from the restore CD?? That should lead you through formatting. You pull the drive out and connect it as a slave drive to another machine and format it there maybe?? Geeze I miss having problems like this on my own machines ;-) Not! GK On 11/10/06, Beach Access Software <bchacc at san.rr.com> wrote: > > > Dear List: > > > > I'm trying to save a machine for a friend - Dell Inspiron 8000 with 128MB of > memory and Windows ME. Adding memory is not an option - costs about the > same as a new machine. > > > > Anyway, I'd like to wipe the hard drive but it won't let me. When I try > Format C:\ at the command prompt it says there's some process using the hard > drive and won't format(I have the Windows ME restore disk). > > > > There's no floppy so I can't make a bootable floppy disk. > > > > The drive is loaded down with a bunch of crap. I'd just like to wipe it and > start fresh. > > > > How can I get this disk wiped? > > > > MTIA, > > > > Rocky > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com