(Second posting due to the last message gradually being lost in the depths
of time)
Hi
I have 3 questions regarding The Maxtor OneTouch 7200RPM 300GB Hard Drive.

I'm at a loss.  I just built a new system with an asus a7v880 mobo, a basic
cd drive, a cd/rw drive, and a western digital 80 gig driveSATA.  I
originally had a grounding issue where I got no power to any periferal or
IDE sockets.  That has been solved.  The system boots and ...

OK. Finally got everything ready to order.
Just have to choose below between the HDs and RAM.
SEAGATE
ST3160023AS (160G SATA150 7200) 10,600 yen Barracuda 7200.7 160GB SATA150

the motherboard is an Asus P4R800-V deluxe and when I turn the pc on, it
won't boot and gets stucked right in the initial mb screen, hard drive led
always on. I push the reset button and then, restarts and boots normally.
This never happened a while ago, the only major change in ...

Got Winxp home edition. My CD Drive does not show up in my cmoputer and in
device manager i get the message that though the driver is installed the
hardware cannot be found.. Code #4 or #41. I installed Norton System Works
2005 and some other computer fix me up, and had to ...

The last time I rebooted my computer one of my hard drives became in
acessable it says their is no longer a file system! It was a fat 32 file
system!is their any way to fix this without reformating so I do not lose all
the information on the hard drive! I was able to scan it with ...

Anyone know if there are any external 5.25 inch floppy drives
available or what would be involved in creating one?
I know someone who has just rediscovered a stack of old 5.25 inch,
1.2MB floppies with private information on them, and who now wants to

When I use my LG DVD Ram to burn pictures onto it, it does not recognise the
empty cd. It keeps saying to insert empty cd. I have tried many different
empty cds, it keep saying the same thing. The ram works fine when burning
music using my Windows player.

how do I download cd backup after reformatting?

Since installing the SP2 I am having problems with my
Canon MPC600f.
The MPservice no longer autostarts on bootup and then the
Canon Multipass status monitor wont connect to the device.

I just recently installed Windows XP Home to a clean hard drive, and I then
attached as slave another 40 GB hard drive that I'd been using as storage on
my previous system.  The previous OS was Win98 and it was run on a HD with
the 40GB drive as slave there too.  

Hi there, I will be purchasing a Seagate 7200RPM 80Gb SATA 8Mb Cache HDD and
I'm wanting to use this as a replacement for  my current 80Gb IDE HDD. My
concern is, will I need to purchase a different cable to connect this to my
motherboard and will it be ok powered by the cable ...

Dear reader,
My IBM Thinkpad T22 has Windows XP professional installed.
My problem is that the printing on the ThinkPad's keys is
not 'standard' compared to my other keyboards.

Yeah, my CD Rom drive doesn't work.  Thinking that's the least of my
worries since everything I try never works because "the Application
failed to initialize because the window station is shutting down".
Consequently, I can't download anything, fix anything, restore

Anyone know of any good literature on the net on how to overclock your CPU &
RAM?
Thanks.