Help ! Windows Geeks

This is a bit of a cross post, but the Boot Camp thread is going nowhere and I really don't want to buy a new hard drive.
I tried to install boot camp/XP on my son's 4 mos old 2.4 GH, 250meg hd macbook aiming for a 32GB windows partition. The process got hung up during the installation phase of XP - probably my fault because my XP disk may not be sp2. I now have a Macbook with an incomplete install of XP and no Mac partition. Mac Leopard installer disk utility sees a 232.9 GB Hitachi drive with a 232GB *read only* NTFS (ie, Windows partition with 490 megs used and 127 GB available space.
I would reformat and start over except *Disk Utility erase and aprtition functions are greyed out,* and the hard disk doesn't mount. DiskWarrior and Techtool Pro don't see the drive at all.
If I use VM Fusion on a MBPro, I can add the MB windows drive to my Network Places and look at the files. Are there any *Windows or Mac* tools I can use to change the drive to Read/Write or something my MacBook will mount?
Thanks,
David - Dallas

You called for a Windows Geek? Here I am
Really there isn't much you can do if you want to save everything. If you feel like starting all over, I would recommend burning a live CD of GParted (Google it) and then delete everything and start fresh that way.
Now if only I could get my beautiful eMac and iMac G4 to run Windows... UGH its soooooooo annoying when Microsoft themselves allows it, then they rip it off the Internet and then they don't support it on Leopard anyway. Sorry for going off topic but if you have any clue as to how to emulate Windows on a PPC Mac (G4) then that would be awesome.

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I thought the purpose of having a seperate caption was to make the text that appears with a control programmatically controllable, but if that control is not extended to what appears in the context help window, it limits the usefulness of the caption and forces me to re-consider some Label names. However, the problem goes deeper than that because then even when I make the label and caption exactly the same, or if I delete (via a select caption text-backspace or select caption text- delete key .. sequence) the caption for a control, the label name in the context help window still appears in square brackets!
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I have used LabVIEW for three years, and I am now using LabVIEW 7.0.

Sorry for that.. I was changing the text of my question and didn't read carefully enough in the preview stage. I wanted it to read "What determines whether the Label name and/or Caption appears in the context help window?"

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It takes so long to set up seeing the problem and the help at the same time, then go back to reading and then back again.
The floating to the top is a very unwellcome "Feature" and microsoft-like not Apple-like.

hmslfi wrote:
The floating to the top is a very unwellcome "Feature" and microsoft-like not Apple-like.
That depends on your POV. Some may prefer the default behaviour, because it doesn't allow the help window to be hidden by the working window.
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data: begin of itab occurs 0,
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DATA : return like ddshretval occurs 0 with header line.
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Initialization.
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON VALUE-REQUEST FOR P_LIFNR.
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EXPORTING
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Hello Jeeth,
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