windows XP running on a Dell XPS media center disables drivers for HP
photosmart S-20 film scanner. Have "updated" software/driver disk from HP for
Windows XP.  Scanner works fine on XP windows on laptop, but not on my
desktop.  Help appreciated.

When I put a dynamic disk from in another computer running windowxp pro, the
disk manager showed it as a foreign disk. I imported it and can see/use it
now.
What does "import disk" actually do? Does it modify the foreign disk? Is

I moved a Maxtor 300GB IDE drive from a Windows XP Pro SP1 machine
(that suffered a big hardware failure) to a working Windows XP Pro
machine without SP1/2 installed. For reference, during the failure of
the first PC, three other drives seem to have suffered physical damage

I have a big issue here with the usb port built into the motherboard, winxp
won't detect it...i have the drivers, i install it.. nothing.. there is no
use of it if winxp doesn;t detect the usb port..i'v formatted 3 times...
contacted the company i baught the computer for, they want ...

I have Windows XP home version.   I installed the software for Ipod and at
the first try of importing the music to ITunes from my DVD drive the screen
froze after I had imported 3 titles and so I had to turn off the computer.  
At the second try it worked and I imported enough ...

No... didn't know you had to and more importantly don't know how...
Jim Macklin Wrote:

Is there any hardware device that connects between an IDE drive and its IDE
controller such that all writes to the drive would be disabled?
I was trying to clone a failing drive with norton ghost when it aborted due
to IO error and seemed to have done something (wrote) to the ...

Here's the lowdown: I installed Norton Systemworks 2005, went to Disk Doctor
and checked off "repair errors" and for it to scan empty HD space. It had to
reboot to give Disk Doctor exclusive access to the drive, and that's when the
trouble started. Since I tweaked my bootup to go ...

i had to reformat, now the device manager will not recoginize the monitor
even though i have the driver, it does not list any driver or  monitor and
the properties tab is grayed out (no options) the best resolution i have is
640x480 16 bit  also when i go through diplay from desk ...

Have a server and 3 pc's setup with broadband through a router. Have one of
the pcs dialling up to an online bank via a dialup modem. The modem shares
the same line as a fax machine.
Until yesterday everything worked fine. The Internet via broadband would

There is nothing in the device manager about USB to remove. It simpl
can't find the Intel pci to usb chip which was there in ME!
Kevin Wrote:

I would like to know if there are any particular problem that I might expect
when installing the 2nd video card, and make the computer an SLI system
I am using XP PRO XP2, with the latest Nvidia drivers already installed (video
and chipset)

After performing virus and spyware removal, I went to plug in my iPOD and
this message appeared in a Found New hardware wizard:
"Cannot install this hardware
There was a problem installing this hardware: Apple iPod USB Device    An

I have a user... running XP...  when the system tries to boot, he gets the
dreaded blue screen with the stop error Unmountable_boot_error
Stop:oxooooooEd...    Ox82f60590, oxc000009c, oxoooooooo, oxoooooooo
I have searched and the only thing I have found is to try recovery

My device (MITSUMI CR-48X5TE) was working now is not. I put a cd in and it
doesn't even show up on "my computer" as a drive. I went to the device drive
and next to MITSUMI CR-48X5TE is an exclamation point in yellow. It also says
it's installed but can not find "hardware device ...