I acquired a new pc a few months ago and the existing "small" HD is beginning
to fail. Also discovered the existing copy of XP Pro, SP2 on here is pirated.
*(Yes, I have bought a new full version with SP2 to install)
New drive is a WD 80GB Caviar SE 7200 RPM EIDE drive. Will be ...

Even when I turn off my computer it still will not quit running.  I have
to unplug the main power source.  It is quite annoying and I know it is
not good to leave it running all the time.  How can I make it shut off?

I got my Acer c303Xmi pre fat 32 partitioned, i dont want 2 partitions i only
want one. I know i can span NTFS, but i do not know how to do so with Fat32,
and i do not know how to convert the drive to NTFS...
Please help me eliminate the partition

I have a PC where the CPU fan resonates through the case.  The cause of the
problem appears to be that the case has indentations pressed in for the
motherboard to mount on in place of plastic stand offs.  If I gently touch
the motherboard the noise stops however wedging a piece ...

any game or cd I put in my drive is gets an error message bos.  on top of the
box it says 16 bit windows subsystem, then this message appears
(c:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt.  the system file is not suitable for
running ms-dos and microsoft windows applications

Please help folks,
I remember a while back there was a way to modify the registry to make
windows recognize your CD-RW as a CD-RW and not a plain CD drive. I cant
remember how, does anyone know how to do this? (Or can they suggest another

I bought a second hand computer (no I didn't steal it)
It's a HP Pavillion 751x and it has a dvd drive (D) sitting above the CD Rom
drive (E). When I put a data or audio disc in drive E, I get a message "put
a cassette in drive E". The CD Rom seems to have a driver. What does "Put ...

- Problem: My CD & DVD drives do not show in Windows Explorer anymore.
- Upon Startup XP detects the devices, but Device Manager shows error code
  37 “Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware”.
- I am running XP SP2 and until last week both devices worked ...

recently I bought a 250 GB hard drive to connect on my usb2.0 port.
But disk management in XP pro cannot build partitions bigger than
32GB. So far I have created 3 partions of 32GB fat32, which works fine
but a partition of 32 GB NTFS is not possible or a partition of 64 GB

It happend straight after I Uninstalled iTunes. Windows Explorer couldnt see
my CD anymore. Let alone Write to CD. I reinstalled iTunes resulting in
Windows Explorer seeing the CD but Windows Explorer lost CD write ability us
the "send to CD " on the popup menu..

when i recieved the Dell 720 printer it didnt have a usb cable so I used a
spare HP cable which worked great and everything came out ok. Then one day I
went to the printer to print out some work and it said that there wasn't a
printer pluged in or

ANY GAME OR CD i PUT IN MY DRIVE IS HAS A ERROR BOX.  ON TOP OF BOX IT SAYS
16 BIT WINDOWS SUBSYSTEM, THEN THIS MESSAGE
APPEARS(C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT.THE SYSTEM FILE IS NOT SUITABLE FOR
RUNNING MS-DOS AND MICROSOFT WINDOWS APPLICATIONS.

I have a HP CD-Writer plus 8100i. Since I installed SP2 some months ago I
used it only for CD-R disks without any problem to read an write. It worked
also with CD-RW in the past. Now I try to write on a new CD-RW. It does not
even reckognize the  disk in the device. I also tried ...

Hello, I hope you can solve my problem.
I was going to listen to my cd on the computer but when I clicked on
"My Computer" there were no cd drives appearing! I only saw Floppy, and
Local Disks! I tried searching for them on my computer but they couldn't

I am trying to find out if my hard drive has died. In my Dell
Optiplex150, it has a (small) 20Gb drive.This is the original drive
that came with the machine. When I was playing a game online at a
popular game site, the screen froze during play and I had no