I'm not sure what are a good range of temps.

I just install a new hard drive..Seagate 200gb....how do you format this
harddrive...as when i did it...it turn into a dynamic disk....unable to make
partition in this harddrive...is there nay programs to format new hard
disks....thanks

i hav a 80 gig hard drive from a previous computer that was a storage drive
only.
i would like to install it on my new computer as a storage drive only.
if i use the ribbon cable i used on the old computer,betweeen the two

A friend of mine is having problems using his printer since he has
upgraded from WINME to WINXP. Since then, at first, his printer took a
long time to start printing. Now it won't print at all unless you
reinstall the drivers every time you use it. also when he unplugges his

I have this device working under Linux, but when
I boot to Windows XP (same machine, same device, etc...)
the device and network seem to be present and configured
properly, but only sent packets seem to be seen - no receive

Thank you in advance for the assistance. I posted this elsewhere prior to
seeing this section. Sorry about that. I am currently going insane as I have
a soon to be dead WD 120 GB HD and I received a replacement one from WD. Now
before I send the defective one back to WD, I am ...

I have xp home on an [adjective] ___ pre-install hp
pavilion a300n.  ASUS CD-R/W drive no longer will read most
CD-R's or burn them.  For some reason, CD-RW's are still
fine.  Yes, I tried a few different brands and no luck.

1.  I right click on "My Computer"
2.  Click on Properties
3.  Go to Hardware
4.  Click on Device Manager

External HDD connected by USB2. The drive sometimes needs to be switched on
and off a few times before it spins up. Sometimes even after it spins up it
is not recognised and needs switching on and off several times. Sometimes it
will spin down while it is being used and then spin up ...

On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from
Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was
partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow
the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the ...

I have read a few things about dynamic drives and it seems a very atractive
feature. However I would be very thankfull if someone could give me some
suggestions on aplying dinamic drives to a 2 x 80 GB IDE HDD PC. I was
thinking splitting multiple partitions between the 2 drives, ...

when I log into my computer on one of my administrator screen names my
shutdown icon does not show up when I press click on start , only the logoff
icon shows. How do I get the shutdown icon to show again or what can I do?

I have an external USB 2.0 enclosure hooking directly to USB port on my Dell
PC.  The speed when I transfer files b/w the external drive and the PC is
not as I expected.  It takes more than 30 minutes to transfer 4GB of data.
Is this accepted for a USB connection?  The external ...

I m about to go to the pc area and treat myself...I would really like
to get NEW FANS because there a unbearable noise(beleve me)and it's
been a lot hotter lately!
how do i know what to buy? where to get the info i need to choose the

I have recently bought a mp3 player, which is a USB (1.1) mass storage.
I tried plugged it into a WinXP home machine (SP2), and Win prompts
for driver (which is strange).  On that same XP home machine, I have
another USB (2.0) mass storage installed with no problem.  To rule out