I connected a second hard drive to the "d" connection (by
disconnecting the cd-rom) and when I restart computer it
don't show on "My Computer".
In the device menager it does show but other then that I

I have an older computer with 2 hds, the slave is currently storing
most of my work files and I would like to install the slave hd in my
new computer also as a slave (no need to change the jumpers).
My question is...how easy it is for an xp sp2 machine to recognize an

Can anyone help please.
I have a 250Gig HDD running with windows XP SP2.
This HDD has previously been used as a primary device, and had a copy of the
MBR written to it. I have triied using FDISK /MBR and also creating a

I'm going to build a new system with some parts new and some from my
old machine.  The old machine runs Win98 and I would like to move to
WinXP.
I see OEM versions of XP available with the online retailer I'm buying

Oy vey.
Windows wont boot. Tells me the NTOKRNL.exe and HAL.dll files are
corrupt and need to be reinstalled. I cant access the hard drive. I
could reformat the HDD and reinstall Windows XP, but that would wipe

Getting device driver errors related to my CD-Rom.. PC is a P4 2.6GH running
1GB Ram and a 200GB IDE HDD. The OS is WinXP Pro with SP2 plus all of the
current available hotfixes.
The error displayed via the device properties is related to 'Code 39' and I

I’m using Microsoft MSCOMM activeX control  and hyperterminal for RS232 in
several Windows systems.
Particularly in Windows XP when I connect to a Mettler scale and turn off
the PC and restart it again the serial ports disappear. Hyperterminal and the

I use teamspeak for a game I play.  However, the way I have it set up, I
can't use my speakers to play music while I keep the headset on to hear my
friends - is there a way to do both?  There are the three input jacks in the
back of the computer but the only one I truly ...

I'm curious to know if any book scanners are available on the market that
automatically turn pages and scan text and/or graphics into some application
like Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF.  I would greatly appreciate your feedback
on this.

Using XP Home Edition.
This just started happening on a 2+ year-old desktop.  When I put a
formattted diskette with data on it into the A drive, I get a message
stating that the diskette is not formatted, and would I like to format it.

Sound problem with Realtek'97 - Windows XP - Asus SLI Motherboard with
onboard sound system
I was listening to some music using Winamp. I unplugged the sound jack
to move my stereo, and it never worked again after plugging back the

The company I work for has an application that is required to write the same
data to two DVD-R disks at the same time, however we are experiencing a
problem using two DRU-800A drives in the same PC under Windows XP Service
Pack 2 (with all security patches applied).

Problem:
Small network of 7 computers that use a lot of reference CD's for looking up
information.  I have made iso images of the CD's and stored them on a large
drive on a system that has XP Pro w/SP-2.  Since you cannot share a virtual

I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D1840 laptop (3ghz, 80gb hdd, 128mb graphics)
and have just installed new RAM from 512mb to 1gb - but I have run into
problems.
The new memory seems to be recognised, but the system will not always boot

Hi Guys and Gals,
I bought a 128Mb usb stick to use with my laptop and pc to transfer files
which I'm working on. My laptop has no problem with the stick, it sees it
and saves to it. When I plug the stick into a usb slot on my PC, theres a