To perform this format successfully, you need to launch Command Prompt with Administrator permissions before executing the command.

Here are the steps to follow:

1. First, find the drive letter of the HDD you wish to format from My Computer. Check, double check, and triple check you have the right letter before executing any format commands on your drive.

2. Navigate to the Command Prompt program: Start Menu > Accessories

3. Right click the Command Prompt entry in Accessories and choose to “Run as Administrator”.

4. You should be prompted by User Account Control “Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?” Answer yes. If you have disabled UAC, you will not see this message.

5. With the command prompt now showing, enter the following command:

format XYZ: /FS:FAT32

Replace XYZ with the letter of the drive you wish to format.

You can also perform a quick format on any drive without bad sectors:

format XYZ: /FS:FAT32 /q

Again, replace XYZ with the letter of the drive you want to format.

Depending on the size and the method you choose to use to format your drive, it can take anywhere between one minute and several hours for the format to finish. But once complete, you will have your drive properly formatted to the FAT32 filesystem.

Whats needed for Windows NT/2000:
Instrsrv.exe installs and removes system services from Windows NT/2000
Srvany.exe allows any Windows application to run as a service.
You can download both files here srvany.zip

This zip includes three files. The two you need srvany.exe and instsrv.exe to install the services and also srvany.wri which documents everything you can do with the program.
Note: Make sure the Services Manager is closed while running the DOS commands.

Everyone is excited about the possibilities of HTML 5, but there’s a lot to learn and absorb as well. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of articles to get you started!

1. Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today! – A great beginning overview of HTML 5
2. Wikipedia: HTML 5 – A basic overview from Wikipedia
3. HTML 5 Cheat Sheet – A great quick guide to HTML 5 as a printable PDF
4. HTML 5 Demos – A great set of demos. Just view the source to see how they work.
5. HTML 5 Drag and Drop + Microformats = a whole world of possibilities – An example of how to use Drag-n-Drop in HTML 5
6. HTML 5 Gallery – See what’s possible with HTML 5
7. HTML 5 Forms Demo – A powerful demo of how forms work in HTML 5
8. HTML 5 Doctor – A great general resource on HTML 5
9. Headers in HTM 5 – A good article from HTML 5 Doctor on the Header element
10. Video elements – A useful article from HTML 5 Doctor on the Video element
11. Designing a blog with html5 – A tutorial on how to build a blog in HTML 5
12. How to get HTML5 working in IE and Firefox 2 – Another great article from HTML 5 Doctor
13. HTML 5 – Draft Standard – The whole spec, in all it’s scary technical detail
14. Semantics in HTML 5 – An opinion piece from A List Apart
15. Thinking About HTML 5 canvas Accessibility – Some quick thoughts on accessibility problems with the Canvas element
16. HTML 5: nav ambiguity resolved – A post by Zeldman on the HTML 5 Nav element
17. A Selection of Supported Features in HTML5 – A great list from Molly about which HTML 5 features are supported by which browsers
18. The WHATWG Blog – The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group – the folks working on the HTML 5 spec
19. HTML 5 canvas – A great in-depth tutorial on how the HTML 5 Canvas element works
20. Native Drag and Drop – A demo of how the Drag-n-Drop functionality works.
21. Bespin – A Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology.
22. When can I use… – Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies
23. Comparison of layout engines (HTML 5) – A good resource from Wikipedia

All settings related to hidden files and folders are configurable in the Folder Option dialog. The easiest way to get there is to click on the Control Panel in the Start menu. A click on the Appearance and Personalization category will display a link to the Folder Options where the hidden file and folder settings can be configured. Another option is to open a Windows Explorer window, click the Organize link in the toolbar, and from there click on Folder and Search options. The Hidden files and folders options are to be found on the View tab under Advanced Settings.

The four entries of relevance in this menu are:

• Hidden files and folders
• Hide empty drives in the Computer folder
• Hide extensions for known file types
• Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

Hidden files and folders

The NTFS file system used by Windows supports several attributes that can be assigned to files, such as Read Only, Encrypted, Compressed and Hidden. Hidden files and folders are simply normal files with the Hidden attribute. Windows Explorer will not display files with the Hidden attribute to the user if the Folder Options setting is configured as such, however the operating system and applications have normal access to such files. Changing the Windows Explorer setting to “Show hidden files, folders and drives” will enable the user to see all hidden files and folders, with the exception of protected operating system files.

Hide protected operating system files

Operating system files are files that get installed with Windows 7. These files are necessary for the operation of the system. Windows users come usually into contact with these files only when they follow a tweaking guide that asks them to manipulate such a file.

Removing the checkmark from the selection box displays all protected operating system files in Windows Explorer. This is not recommended as it increases the chance that these files may be edited or deleted accidentally by the user.

Hide extensions for known file types

Windows 7 hides the file extensions of known file types by default. This mean that file.txt will be displayed simply as “file”, and application.exe will be displayed simply as “application”. This setting is often problematic as it sometimes becomes difficulty to identify a file type by its icon alone. It is generally recommended to display file extensions all the time to avoid this problems and make file identification easier.

Hide empty drives in the computer folder

Empty drives such as empty DVD drives are hidden by default in the Windows 7 operating system. This is an interesting feature that might cause some confusion, especially on new PCs. Users who do not see their DVD drive in My Computer might think that it is not properly installed. Users who wish to display all drives all the time can uncheck the associated option to hide empty drives.

You’ll need the latest version of..

• the Windows binaries
• the “run Subversion as a windows service” wrapper
• the TortoiseSVN shell integration utility

B) Install Subversion

1. Unzip the Windows binaries to a folder of your choice. I chose c:\program files\subversion\ as my path.
2. Now, add the subversion binaries to the path environment variable for the machine. I used %programfiles%\subversion\bin\
   
3. You’ll also need another environment variable, SVN_EDITOR, set to the text editor of your choice. I used c:\windows\notepad.exe
   

C) Create a Repository

1. Open a command prompt and type
   

   svnadmin create “c:\Documents and Settings\Subversion Repository”

2. Navigate to the folder we just created. Within that folder, uncomment the following lines in the /conf/svnserve.conf file:
   

   [general]
   anon-access = read
   auth-access = write
   password-db = passwd

   Next, uncomment these lines in the /conf/passwd file:

   [users]
   harry = harryssecret
   sally = sallyssecret

D) Verify that everything is working

1. Start the subversion server by issuing this command in the command window:
   

   svnserve –daemon –root “C:\Documents and Settings\Subversion Repository”

2. Create a project by opening a second command window and entering this command:
   

   svn mkdir svn://localhost/myproject

   It’s a standard Subversion convention to have three folders at the root of a project:

   /trunk
   /branches
   /tags

3. At this point, Notepad should launch:Enter any comment you want at the top of the file, then save and exit.
4. You’ll now be prompted for credentials. In my case I was prompted for the administrator credentials as well:
   

   Authentication realm: 0f1a8b11-d50b-344d-9dc7-0d9ba12e22df
   Password for ‘Administrator’: *********
   Authentication realm: 0f1a8b11-d50b-344d-9dc7-0d9ba12e22df
   Username: sally
   Password for ‘sally’: ************

   Committed revision 1.

   Congratulations! You just checked a change into Subversion!

E) Start the server as a service

1. Stop the existing command window that’s running svnserve by pressing CTRL+C.
2. Copy the file SVNService.exe from the zip file of the same name to the subversion\bin folder.
3. Install the service by issuing the following commands:
   

   svnservice -install –daemon –root “C:\Documents and Settings\Subversion Repository”
   sc config svnservice start= auto
   net start svnservice

4. Test the new service by listing all the files in the repository:
   

   svn ls svn://localhost/

   You should see the single project we created earlier, myproject/

F) Set up the shell extension

1. Run the TortoiseSVN installer. It will tell you to restart, but you don’t need to.
2. Create a project folder somewhere on your hard drive. Right click in that folder and select “SVN Checkout…”type svn://localhost/myproject/ for the repository URL and click OK.
3. Create a new file in that directory. Right click the file and select “TortoiseSVN, Add”
4. The file hasn’t actually been checked in yet. Subversion batches any changes and commits them as one atomic operation. To send all your changes to the server, right click and select “SVN Commit”:

And we’re done! You now have a networked Subversion server and client set up on your machine.