I have 40Gb on my IBM Netvista PC.  I have just bought a 160Gb and want to
replace the 40 Gb with it.  I want to use the 40Gb as an external harddrive.
I have managed to install and format the 160Gb as F: drive.
How do I move everything on the 40Gb to the 160 Gb, including the ...

have upgraded to xp pro,keyboard will only show @sign
when the number two key is pressed with the shift key .
help ?
tony.

When I turn on my computer I receive error code 1000-0141
and am told the hard drive is not available (I have
windows XP home). I can't even run safe mode. The
computer tech service (Dell) says I have to replace my

I did new install XP family edition. Now my dvd player
wont work. I get messages like DVD Navigator missing.
Iused to have windows ME. I did clean XP install.

for several months i've had a problem with my hard drive
spinning down and occasionally not spinning back up.  
yes, it is an intermittent problem.  i have tried to set
all of the settings in windows so that the computer does

Well, I recently ran Windows Update and I attempted to
install the "Silicon Image storage software update
released on February 03 2004" that it indicated I
needed.  It didn't work... and I tried many times to get

Help!  I cannot seem to make my numeric keyboard, or
calculator work. The "NUM lock" is not on. Is there some
trick to turning on the numerical keyboard on a new
computer??

The good old wired version of this product had many more
configurable options - such as program any button to fire
up an external program. It was also capable of having the
mouse change it's programmed keys, depepndant on which

Using XP Pro and the MS wireless keyboard and mouse, how
can it be configured to have the wireless hardware
function during bootup.  How can I access BIOS and set-up
if I can't press F8 or DELETE? The keyboard and mouse

what is the rpc that restart my computer automatically?
and how can i avoid it?
thx
pen

I have 2 hard disks, a master 13G & a Slave 80G.  When I installed XP the system only recognises my slave drive as 33G.  Worse than that all the data I had saved on my slave drive before installation is not accessable as it does not recognise the file format.  grateful for any ...

I have a 80GB Maxtor HD. I had a complete system crash a
couple of weeks ago, and had to reformat/reinstall
everything. Along the way I made 2 partitions ; 6GB
(system) and 70GB(storage). In an act of sillyness by me,

I run this printer with perfect results on '95 and NT -
toolbox and print preview all visible. I now have a new
laptop with XP home and the printer doesn't work (apart
from printing twice at an erratic scale - then nothing.

Today i've got a 200Gb disk from Western Digital
My drive setup
120 Gb WD:
-C NTFS 50GB "Local Disk" (windows partition)

(This is w2k SP4 question, if it's OT, I'm sorry.)
In Control Panel/DeviceManager/Disk Properties/tols/Error Checking
There is a "check now" button that takes so long to run that I hope
it's doing something.  It does 5 passes with no hint about what it's