Hi people, I am having a serious problem with my PC.. viruses are ever
so often attacking my computer but that is not even the problem. Usually I
would be able to recover my computer using the F10 key during start up but my
computer has failed me miserably and I can't even ...

This has never happened before but recently, my computer screen turns
blank for 2 or 3 seconds whenever I'm playing games.  This problem does
not occur when I am surfing the web or using Office. I've tried
reformatting my computer but the problem still persists.  The problem

I can play dvds, install programs, and read data saved on disk from another
computer but my computer won't let me format a cdrw.  Keep getting "general
failure" message.

I am having problems with getting WindowsXP SP2 to recognize external media
readers.. anything from not recognizing that they are plugged in to showing
up but having the drive letters come and go intermittently.. at one point it
was working perfectly, then had to reinstall ...

I just installed a Creative Labs Live card. I thought being in the PCI slot
it would have sound immediately upon being installed. I have no sound when
attempting to play music off the HDD. I notice there are pins for on the
card, one of which I know is for connecting the card to ...

I am trying to help a friend of mine at work who has just replaced his
main hard drive and re-installed XP on that drive. His problem is that
now XP does not show his second drive through My Computer.
If he goes through Disk Management, XP sees the drive and reports the

I ran the Seatools diagnostic software on my hard disk & got the following
test as failed :
File Structure Test Result:
Partition 1 (NTFS (80 GB) ) Result: Failed with critical Errors

When I copy a large file, the copy of the file is not identical to the
original. On a 1GB file, there are typically about a dozen bytes that
all have an additional bit set, here is the result of the FC /B
command:

Under XP, I just ran Disk Defragmenter on my C: drive, a 120-gig Seagate,
with no problem.
But when I tried to defrag my primary slave drive, a 40-gig Western Digital,
I got a

i have had my hd into 3 partitions. all working great and have been for a
couple of years. now all of a sudden i cannot access 2 of the partitions.
says access denied please insert diskette with volume serial number. can
anyone help or is the info lost. running xp home with sp2.

I just added a new 300GB hard drive to my Dell 8300 with Win XP professional.
When I check the capacity of the hard drive, it displays 279GB in the hard
drive list.  Under Properties for the drive, it shows a very small amount of
used space, 279 GB free, but on the pie chart, it ...

I have a computer that recently got upgrade from XP SP1 to SP2.  On it were 2
USB stick drives that were working fine.  After the upgrade, the computer
does not detect them anymore.  I have tried all the USB ports, and I have
also removed all the USB Root Hub's out of Device ...

Okay, I understand there is a problem with XP and larger HDs.  I'm shopping
now for a bigger drive and need to do some research on the topic.
What is the maximum drive I can get with XP Home?  Can somebody point me in
the right direction here?

Hi. I have a little USB flash storage which worked fine on my laptop before.
But now although the sound acknowledges that it's in, AND in Add Hardware,
it is listed and says its working, also in Disk Management it's there but it
doesn't show in My Computer so I can't access it.

Is there a way of restoring my hard drive to it's factory default state &
then from there proceeding to install an OS onto it. Basically trying to
start fresh.