All,
Friend of mine has purchased a Naxtor DiamondMax 120gig ata133 hdd, and he
is running Windows ME 4.9.3000
Now the HDD is recognised in the bios, but Windows just won't see it.

I am working with a Gateway Essentials 433C, 64mb ram, 80G hard drive,
WinME, 433mhz PC. I reformatted the drive, loaded Win Me. Everything was
working fine. Noticed the date was bad, couldn't change it, so I changed the
PC battery. (Tested and shows fine.) At the same time, I ...

I recently purchased some ram for my aopen mx3w motherboard and
unfortunately it is unstable now.  I am being hit with bluescreens suddenly
and without any specific pattern.  My motherboard supports 512 Mb's of ram
(256 per slot) and the chip I purchased is 64mb's (added to my ...

Installed HP CD Writer 9100 with original disc, system hangs whenever we try
to use it.  A web search suggests the following solution, but config.sys file
appears empty.  The solution we found was as follows -  Reorder your
CONFIG.SYS so that the driver statement is in the first ...

Was told recently that the reason my new (slave) hard
drive shows up in BIOS but not Windows is that it's an
NTFS, and Windows ME is only set up to see FAT32.  Wanted
to verify that's true, and to ask if there is any way

For any questions and concerns about your pc e-mail me at
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On 10/16/2004 2:47 PM PST Noel Paton wrote in a reply to 'slow performance':

I need some help
My PC worked fine with Windows ME until I tried upgrading from a CD Rom to a
CDR/WR. My D drive no longer is recognized and in Device Manager, the Primary
and Secondary IDE Contollers are marked with a yellow X. I have tried

When I went to use my CD-RW drive (F:) I found that it
wasn't working. The drive letter F: was gone from my
computer. Tech support at Compaq told me to remove the
drivers from device manager while in Safe mode which I did

I'm running WinME and have 1.2GB of memory.
Though my system recogize the full 1.2GB, when I run a mem in DOS the total
conventional reads 640K with 580K Free.
In the Extended (XMS) column it reads 65,535K total with 1,309,26 Free.

I am upgrading form me to xp as ME is full of faults my
computer crashes frezes and frequently is low on resources.
To get rid of these problems do I need to do a total hard
disck wipe or will installing xp get rid of the me

I have P4 2.8GHz with 1GB RAM and 5GB of free space on my windows drive C.
My WinME works very slow.
For example, it takes about 10 minutes to delete a single file of 100MB!
While on my WinXP that installed on the other drive it takes to delete the

Hi there, I m having major problems on my other computer and for some reason
in some programs the keyboard wont work at all and in others it will work to
some degree.  When I say to some degree I mean that about 6 or so keys will
work and the rest wont for some reason.  Would anyone ...

I'm running WIN 5.5. I tried to upgrade to WIN 6.0 at
least 6 times and I get the error message unable to
install all the tools for 6.0. Try to upgrade again. Can
anyone tell me what's wrong?

My cumputer is going a bit nuts?  I have ME running but
for some reason I have no sound on coumpter, click mouse
no sounds run saved multi media no sound, but play cd in
drive I have sound.  I have gone into my computer and