I have an 80GB hard disk with 6 partitions of about 13GB each. I want
to merge two of the partitions. I know it can be done using third party
software such as PartitionMagic, but I don't have it. The two
partitions which I want to merge don't have any data (i.e. I can afford

I've got an external drive in a Bytecc enclosure. I connect it to my IBM
Thinkpad using USB 2.0 -- or at least I used to. Now, about 70% of the time,
when I connect it Windows tells me the drive could perform faster if I plug
it into a USB 2.0 port. I only have USB 2.0 ports!

I have an Inspiron 600m that doesn't have any sound coming out of the
headphones.  When the heqadphones are unplugged, there is sound from the
speakers.
What could be causing this?

I posted something similar to this a while back, but I confused it by
mentioning other things which I have now eliminated. I have boiled it
all down to this: If I install my new DWD-RW drive (in the slot where I
had a plain DVD-R), my monitor stops working. If I take the new drive

I have an audio driver built in with my motherboard. It's SiS 7018. But i
can't hear any sound now after i formatted my pc as the audio driver is not
detected. My OS is XP...I downloaded the exact audio driver from sis.com but
it won't finish the setup as an error occurs.

Hi out there,
I just saw that another guy is posting about this problem right now.
Also found out that Google has some stuff to say about it.
Still I am posting another thread... why?

I have two hard disks...one is 10GB and the other one is 160GB. But when i
check the capacity of the drives, the second drive has only 80GB instead of
160GB!!!...i don't know where the rest have gone!!...Someone pls help!!!

I'm planning to upgrade both my mobo and cpu, and am worried about keeping my
current XP Pro installation.  I have a legal copy(I assume - it's been
correctly activated), but my OEM was a little shady and I never got a CD or
COA or anything of the sort (although I'm working on ...

My optical drives gone. They are not listed in My Computer.
These devices listed in Device Manager with yellow !.
I tried to uninstall them and installed again but didn't work.
I've installed another fresh XP, it has no problem with drives.

Equals a big fat zero.  LOL (well, not really)
I just swapped out a bad keyboard out of my Presario R32##CL laptop.
I put it in, and presto!   The laptop would not fire, either pressing
the button (when I put the cover back on, or if I attempted to turn it

I'm having trouble installing a USB printer and flash drive.  Whenever I
connect anything to a USB port the Found New Hardware Wizard pops up but can
never find the drivers for it.
I didn't think a generic flash drive needed special drivers for XP, but it

I've been trying to install my webcam (with mic) for sometime now. It is a
Crayton
Electronics QCam 350ml.
I have installed the drivers, when I plug in the device windows cannot

I was wondering how I could record from two microphones simultaneously on my
Windows XP machine? I'm assuming Im going to need a sound card with multiple
channels (should I use multiple mic inputs, or multiple line-in inputs?). Can
anyone recommend a good, basic card with two or ...

I just recently took delivery of a high-performance custom-
built  PC. It has an AMD 3700 CPU, a 4 gig memory, a 260 gig
Maxtor HD, ATI Radeon X800 video card, both a Lite On CD/DVD
reader and  CD/DVD burner.

I have a NTFS drive which was my data drive.  I went to reinstall
window on a second drive (thinking my data drive would be safe because
it's on a completely seperate hard drive) but, somehow, I picked the
wrong drive by mistake and ended up formatting and installing windows