I'm new to PC Banter but would appreciate some help. I recently
connected, via USB, an external CD burner.  Seems to burn OK, but the
resulting CD cannot be recognized or read by any other drive, including
the new drive. It will read other CDs. Is there something I need to set,

I have a Media Center PC with an HP DVD Writer 640b, which i purchased only a
few months ago. I often make dvd movies and it has worked great for months.  
Then one day the 'device buffer' that usually works fine now jumps all over
the place, even when no other programs are ...

The mouse keeps freezing up...it won't do anything until you reboot...then it
may last awhile, or just a few minutes. A new mouse does the same thing.

I run XP SP2.  Whenever I attempt to install any kind of new hardware, the
New Hardware wizard goes through its motions, but it NEVER finds the drivers
or software to install for the new hardware.  There are times when even if I
point directly to the proper file, it still won't ...

Is there any software to repair DVD+RW disk that cannot be recognised by the
DVD writer?
Thanks,
Ray

I have an AOpen modem (model FM56-SVV) that has been behaving badly
under Windows XP since I got it.  It would very frequently reboot my
machine in the middle of trying to send a fax.
I decided to try to fix the problem by completely reinstalling all of

I am trying to install a Belkin 4 port USB2 hub on my computer unfortunately
I get the install new hardware wizard up which asks for the location of the
drivers for the device these of course cannot be found. I have pointed the
wizard to the system 32 file, and I have also tried ...

My friend have a computer with Win XP that got a hard disk
crash. It hangs at start up and never logs in, just stay
at the light blue win xp screen. Before that It had real
bluescreen. When I connect the disk to another computer I

I;m having trouble with USB devices.
I've got 2 devices, that work on 90% of machines.
One is a USB 2.0 stick and the other is an MP3 player (Benq Joybee
120).

I plan to by a new system for home
I am a professionanl in software developement ad I would like a computer on
which I will be able to do programming and Multimedia stuff like picture
edition or video editing.

I have recently purchased a Bytestor 512Mb USB Storage Device.
I use a Sony Vaio laptop.
When I plug in the device, the drivers install but it assigns either A: or B: drive letter to the device.  My laptop doesn't have a floppy, so it assigns A: is my USB floppy is not present, or ...

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I want to check the integrity of the file system of my F drive.
One way of doing this is to open a line command window using CMD and
then run the CHKDSK command (with the appropriate parameters).
A second way is to go to Win Explorer and select the F frive and then

I tried installing a Sony DRU-800A today and now my pc doesn't recognize my
d:\ or e:\ drives (under 'my computer" it does show the e:\ drive but get an
i/o error when I try to access it).  I tried switching the master/slave
ribbon connection (drives have power) and checked the ...

I am getting an error when I try and install the modem driver. I get an error
that windows was unable to update my driver and the modem is not recognized.
I can't use my modem.
Is there a problem for the com ports?