My pc recently crashed and so to cut a long story short,  I purchased a new
hard drive.  I have had no problems installing and viewing the new hard
drive.  However,  I need to recover the data from the old hard drive and it
is not visible in the My Computer area.  If I go to ...

hello. i am having trouble with my dvd-rw combo. it is no
longer able to read the disks. when i put in a disk it
comes up "enter a disk" when i click on the icon.cam
someone help

I updated to Windows XP Pro a month ago. While I was
using Win Me I was able to access a CD-Rewriteable disk
from my DVD-ROM. Now that Windows XP is installed I
simply cannot access any CD-RW disk. I am forced to open

After installing sp2 into xp pro, my d: secondary hard drive is not
available. It is not listed in explorer, device manager, or disk management,
but it is listed in the bios upon boot up. The drive comes up fine on my
other xp sp1 pc. Everything was working fine with this drive ...

Having recently and seemingly painlessly installed SP2 on
my Sony Vaio FX503 Notebook, I have noticed my Matshita
UJDA 720 DVD CD-RW no longer writes, only reads, and my
batteries will not charge above 76% (from new)!!!

In attempting to update XP with SP2, there is not enough space on the current
HD.
Is there a way to "move" SP to a new drive while maintaining all of the
currently installed applications, etc.

My keyboard is not working during bootup or when OS is loaded.  I do
not get any errors when the keyboard is plug in, but no keys will
function.  I can't even get into the bios by hitting the del key,
which is how I get into bios.  When I unplug the keyboard it give me a

Using Win XP pro.   Have connected via USB port a
printer, every time I use that same port for my webcam,
the scanner part of my printer will not owrk properly
until I remove and re-load XP.   Have downloaded the

I have a WIFI card and it was working just fine before
SP2 was downloaded. Is there anyone that could helo me?
Thanks

I just loaded SP2 & I'm not able to use my WIFI Card need
help

The Stand By feature on my Dell Dimension 4550 with Win XP Home (SP1) is
behaving strangely.  When I invoke it (from Start menu), the screen blanks,
but in about 3-5 seconds, the system reactivates.  The Hibernate, Turn Off,
and Restart features work fine.  This is recent behavior ...

Unable to solve.  is there any way to fix this wonderfull
problem that Service pack 2 thought it fixed.  
How do you find the information regarding the child
object that is useing this resource (and allow it to be

From reading through everything so far I guess I'm beating a dead horse, But
is there no way that MS could do up a driver for the older hardware?
I have gone to control panel and tried to add the joystick, But XP keeps on
saying it is not connected. However if i connect the ...

When I try to burn a cd I get this message:-    A FATAL
EXCEPTION 0E HAS OCCURRED AT 0028:C003C3B6 IN VXD IOS(01)
+0000146E
Dose anyone know what this means???????????

i have bought the new pinacle usb2 tv card.because i didnt have usb 2 on my
laptop i bought a pcmcia card with 2 usb2 exits.i installed it but when i put
the tv card on the usb the computer  doesnt  respond.the problem is with
drivers cause the current drivers of the pcmcia card ...