my hard drive is on the verge of failing and i have some
information i need to back up but i cant get the cd-rom
to burn a cd.  the files are quite big, so floppy is not
an option and i dont have any external options.  please

My terminology is a little rough around the edges, so please bear with me
I have clean installed XP on a very bland desktop (that is, has barely the essentials), and I have run into a problem with powering down the system.  The power button (which I believe is referred to as being ...

After I insert the lexar 512 mb card in the compact flash slot of my
thinkpad, windows recognizes the new hardware as PCMCIA ATA/ATAPI drive
but doesn't create any drive letter for it. The same card works in the
digital camera without any problems (not a problem with the card).

I am using Windows XP Home edition.  I had a boot up
problem and so I went to "Go back" to choose an earlier
time when the system was working fine.  While "Go back"
was copying sectors, the system shut down. I could no

Every time I insert a DVD into the DVD ROM and the Desktop or the DVD
-R/RW on the Laptop the system freezes. I have to use the power switch
to reboot it. Both systems are running XP Pro. They both have 1 gig
Ram. The notebook has FSB of 533 and PC2700 ram the Desktop has FSB of

I cannot install any hardware whatsoever.  I first
noticed the problem trying to install a Canon digital
camera.  I bought a PC card adapter (plug and play)
thinking I could just download the images through it, but

When we first installed XP home version it told us that
our CD drive was not a certified one (Pioneer). Since
installing we have had the send report to microsoft
appear everytime we start the computer. Needless to say

I have a dive computer which uses parallel cable or serial to download info to computer.  XP does not support the parallel connection, so for XP, must use serial.  Just purchased a IBM laptop that has NO serial port.
Is there any driver available to support the parallel cable ...

I have just converted from Win ME to XP Pro on my
secondary PC and no devices show up in the device manager
and the install new hardware wizard does not function.  I
noticed his when I tried to connect to internet after

I would really like to know if it is possible to change
the size of drives on my computer. I have 15 Gig on drive
C and 160 Gig on drive D. Can I take space from D and
enlarge Drive C ? Thanks,

recently relocated, but still using cable to access
internet.  Was working fine, but then lost access.  Reset
modem, did "ipconfig/release", and "ipconfig/renew", but
get error message, "unable to renew IP address".  Tried

I had to replaced a 10 gig drive to a 1 gig drive how do i make it find it 10 gig had over 100 bad clusters.on it.

hi i have just installed a 2nd hard drive ,i had to
disconect the floppy to access the cables,afterwards the
floppy did't work, i have checked all the conections they
are all secure and the right way round,the device manager

I was given a computer with windows XP but the guy told
me I could only use it for a couple of weeks. Because you
have to reg. it and he is keeping it with his computer.
So I have to put my 98 back on mine. Well i can not

My mouse seems to have bit the dust for reasons beyond my comprehension... It's worked fine since the day I got it but today I changed the batteries per the "Critically Low" battery warning. But after I changed the batteries it no longer works..
It's never been dropped or ...