I try to shut the E Drive and it tries to read something but then opens and
stays open.  The Computer has been off all night, did a scan with sophis,
nothing found. Any suggestions?

I just started using a 512 Jump Drive to backup my Quicken files. It worked
fine the first time, but when I reconnected it a few days later my PC didn't
recognize it (there was/is no icon on "My Computer" and the wizards also
don't see it). The USB port still works with my camera ...

I broke down and bought a new soundblaster soundcard and it was nstalled
sucessfully and d/m says its operating fine...but when i look in the the
sound settings it says there is no audio device present....whats wrong now

It seems that Microsoft has release an update for many of the Firewire problems
that folks have had with XP. After having spent the last yewar trying to get my
problems with Firewire devices worked and told that there wasn't a problem,
Microsoft released an update on Oct. 6.

I have an external hard drive (divided into 2 partitions, both formatted
NTFS) connected to my laptop by USB 2.0. I'm running XP Pro SP2.
Virus/spyware/etc. free.
I've repeatedly set System Restore monitoring off on the two partitions on

Please can someone help me? My brother wants to try and fit a new hard drive
into my computer to see if my system will recognise it? Is this safe to do
and will my computer work when he refits my own hard drive? A friend of his
has a problem with her hard drive and has some ...

I'm running Windows XP and I'm trying to connect a MAXTOR 52049u4 drive
using an IDE to USB adapter called "R-DRIVER II" to the USB port of my
machine. At first it worked. I then tried to connect another drive in
the same manner and used one of the jumpers from the MAXTOR disk to ...

Ok heres a nice one... I finally lost everything, To make a long story
short... I ghave 2 SATA drives in my computer (both Seagate 200GB). I
started removing all the files from my one hard drive to the other one
so i could reload my windows xp. Only after insallation I found the

I'm connecting a USB wireless mouse to my acer travelmate 2700 laptop
and windows xp recognises the new hardward but installs the device as a
HID-compliant Device but doesn't install it under "Mice and other
pointing devices" so I am unable to use the mouse. It works OK on my

Recently, while booting up Windows XP Pro, from time to time, I got a
warning message: Primary slave drive fails.  I need to re-boot it again to
boot up successfully.  It appears to me that it is a signal to say the
harddisk is going to fail.  Can someone advise me how to easily ...

I've bought a Soyo motherboard that supports a pentium 4 chip and has ISA
slots (amazingly SOYO still supports this)
I've got an ISA interface card that goes with our gas chromatograph at our
office, unfortunately, it doesn't appear to work with windows XP. It WAS

i've managed to connect two keyboards to my computer using one PS/2 keyboard
and one USB keyboard.
But Xp sees them as one keyboard... or rather they're functioning as one
keyboard.

I'm in some real need of advice on how to set up my PC for maximizing
performance using Pro Tools(w/ MBox) and Vegas for audio/video
recording and editing.
I've got a Dell(WindowsXP, Dual Core, 320GB Performance RAID 0 (2 x

anybody there please help me....
for your info my pc get infect by trojan when using a p2p... my
antivirus cant detect it...afterthat i boot my c drive(i got another 2
partition) because my IE got error loading some DLL file.... and lucky