if left idle for extended time actual drive is off- drawer refuses to open..
going into MY COMPUTER, cd-rom " ICON " has dissappeared..
have to " RE-BOOT " to get cd-rom on and visible'
thx magicmawk

Anyone know how I can rename a device in
device manager, (or the registry), so it doesn't show
#2 after the device.
I used the leadtek driver uninstall tool last night. And it removed the

I was just wondering what a "normal" amount of running threads at one
time is in windows XP. On my computer its normally around 400 (i check
with ctrl-alt-delete). that seems a little excessivly high. can anyone
tell me what it should be around or at least what its like on their

I have installed a new physical hard disk on my computer running Windows XP pro
afterwards I 've made as one logical drive contains three extended
partitions. However, the first partition refused to be formated as FAT32,
(the choice FAT32 does not exit at all, only the NTFS), on ...

I just purchased a Samsung Hard Drive which is 160 GB. Windows XP
states the capacity of the drive is about 32 GB. Why can Windows not
see the entire drive? I looked in Disk Management and it is the same.
During Windows setup it is the same. Also, using Partition Magic 8.0 it

Hi to All,
This is a very strange problem I've come across. My Windows no
longer recognises modem as a valid hardware. Means now I dont find any
device of type 'modem' in the device manager. This is because of a

This is a stupid problem, but it is a problem.  A friend asked me how t
fix the problem, and although I encountered it myself a long time ago
have forgotten how to fix it.  She is running a Sony Vaio desktop wit
a 56K Agere '97 modem.  THe operating system is Windows Xp Home, wit

I have a hard drive that I am trying to backup becasue it is going bad. I
can't seem to get all the way through an XPbackup which is 11gb.  I ran
chkdsk/f/r and the following error at step 4:
windows replaced bad cluster in file 36888 of name

I got the following error:
Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration
information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)
Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.

I have 3 Redistribution License Request forms to be processed for 3 hotfixes
for post WinXP-SP1/SP2 and Win2000-SP4 installations. Can someone help to
submit these to the proper authorities within Microsoft so that my company
can get redistribution rights on the hotfixes we are ...

I would like to convert from FAT 32 to NTFS and I tried my command prompt and
the conversion would not work after the system restart the reason: saying
insufficient memory.  Is there another way to convert without losing any
files?  thank you

All of my extra USB Ports (F through I) and my floppy a drive won't work
anymore.  
Haven't loaded anything new.  When trying to access the floppy disk drive,
or use my flash drive in a USB port, I get this message:

I am wanting to add a SATA drive for my system, however, I am unable to move
forward unless I download the driver from Intel. If you read below as it says
on their site, you need to have a password. They call it an Entitlement Code.
When I click on the page for a customer service ...

Ive got a self built Pc with
Asus K8V Deluxe
256 DDR Ram pc3200 400MHz, CL3 (one stick)
200Gig SATA HDD

When I first built my computer, Windows 2000, I had a SCSI board and used a
SCSI CDROM drive and a SCSI Scanner.
When I rebuilt the computer and was ready to install Windows XP SP2, I
removed the SCSI card, the CDROM and Scanner.  I'm now using  IDE ATA /