We are in a "managed" environment and our 1000 users do not have access to
their C: drive only LAN shares.  The burning function in XP Pro wants C: to
do some sort of caching thing.  Any ideas?

I have a PC with 2 SATA drives (Samsung) set up as C and D drives.  I can set
the power settings so that the drives should turn off after 'x' minutes, but
they don't seem to respond.  Is there an issue with SATA drives that prevent
their shutdown by Windows?

In trying to add an additional new hardrive, got the
sequence wrong and now have a locked system.    In
addition I have no boot disk fir xp and the win 98 disk
(from previous computer) does nothing.    The original CD

I'd like a bit of advice, if you will.  It's about whether I should upgrade
my Mum's PC from Windows 98se to Windows XP.
Her system spec is:
   SiS730 chipset motherboard / Socket A 810 Series

Sharon F Wrote:

Last week outta nowhere my LCD Viewmaster monitor started turning itself
off during operation (using XP). At the time turning it off then on
again would bring it back to life, however on Friday that option
stopped working. The screen would display for a microsecond in full

I have a computer that I just put a new hard drive into with fresh
install of Win XP home. It's an Intel board and the start up always
pauses after the messages that it's detected a keyboard and mouse and
usb. Then it pauses and just says press F1 to continue.

hello i am wondering if this is a case of not enough power on my
computer.
i have 4 cd roms, 2 fans that does not include the power suppy fan.
and i have 3 harddisks it all worked fine untill i changed one of the

How do you adjust the brightness and contrast on these new monitors?  I have
a low end CRt and a flat panel.

I have a DVD-RW drive (Toshiba SD-R5113) and it was working
fine for a while. Now it read CDs fine but not DVDs.
I updated firmware, cleaned it up and tried different things but
no help. When I insert the disk the light in the drive keeps

i have a laptop with 2000 and xp home on it and i want to
totally erase everything. how do i  do it? thanks

I'm trying to wipe my system and start a fresh. Installed is Win xp and
i have now got Win xp with SP2. I want to format my drive and install
the SP2 but when i try to delete the partition it says system files are
on there and i can't delete the partition or format the drive.

I had been forced to reformat my C drive and reinstall XP Pro. All updates
loaded.
After the reinstall, my slave (D drive) wasn't assicned a drive letter. It's
visible and listed as 'Healthy (Active), (baxic, NTFS) it even gives me the

I bought my computer on january of 2004, my computer has a 200 watts power
supply and I'm thinking of replacing my 4x DVD+RW Drive with a newer 16x
Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive.
Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive specification:

My CD drive is not reading my Data CD's.
I've put it in the drive multiple times but it will only read once about
every 20 times I put it in.
The computer is an old HP NETSERVER LC 3