[CS-FSLUG] Hard drive won't format - or maybe stay formatted.

[davidm at hisfeet.net]

By the way, Tim, you wrote:

> I have not run into hard-drives that have built-in MBR protection,
> but since some BIOSes have that option, it would be worth looking
> into as a possibility.  What model of HD is it?

Well, I had it out of the laptop a few days back, bud didn't write down
its particulars. It is a Hitachi, and on the drive is identified as 250
GiB. It is SATA.  Identified in the Bios as: PO-ST9250827AS
The laptop is: Asus X83V.