My dell inspiron 6000 laptop, purchased just 6 months ago, has recently been
stalling and failing to read the information on cds, usually music cds, in
the cd drive. Also, it is failing to recognize blank cds, preventing me from
burning disks. Any suggestions would be greatly ...

I just hooked up a floppy drive into my computer. However, the computer
doesn't recognize the new hardware.

How does one assign specific drive letters to the external storage and
optical devices? Basically the letters change as different devices are hooked
up. Card readers and External DVB burners and USB flash drive letters get all
randomly assigned. Need to get Drive letters assigned ...

Recently, I stumbled across a hard disk tool that will show the first
time a disk was used. Good as s guide when buying a second hand hard
disk or even old disk passed off as new by unscrupulous dealers, but
for the life of me, I can't find that website or tool again.

When I connected my Sony  DV Video Cam to the Firewire port I used to get a
popup window that
would let me select which action to take such as run Adobe Premiere or
Record Video. I mistakenly checked the box that say "Always perform the

I have had my microphone plugged in the back of my pc for along time and it
works fine but when i plug it into the port in the front of the pc the
computer does not know its there and i cannot use it.
please help

The XP method for installing a new device is the "add new hardware
wizard". This process involves thrashing the hard disk for several
minutes, (usually) manually
identifying the driver location, followed by warnings about unsigned

the blue screen of death has me and i cant find out why its killing me
now.(irql _not_less_or_equal ) is what it keeps coming up with. could someone
please help me?

I want upgrade memory (existing is 128MB) in PIII 866MHz, to 512MB,
to install Windows XP. I want use 2 x 256=512MB.
Motherboard info:
Mainboard model: CT-6OJV2

I've got an old MSI Gateway-OEM motherboard (MS-6330) that doesn't
support 48-bit LBA with its latest BIOS revision, so my Western Digital
250GB drive shows up as 137GB in BIOS, as expected.
But, in Windows, Disk Management shows it as the full 232 GB, and I'm

   Is there a way to uninstall or disable the built-in write software
program from XP Home? It gets things (mainly me) mixed up when I back up my
Quicken files.
   Does the "Enable" box need to be checked on the device's

I am just wondering if anyone can help me with my problem.
I have just recently upgraded my computer, and now I am having an issue
with my keyboard.
I installed all the drivers that came with my new motherboard, etc.

I have a XP Pro SP2 machine with all patches on.
I use subst to map 3 drives to different paths (E:, N:, T:).
When I plug in a usb pen drive it is recognized, the drive installed, but no
letter is assigned, although I see the disk in disk manager.

I have Xp sp2 on a Laptop and on a Desktop. I got the same problem all of the
sudden on both computer.I though it was some kind of virus, but my
antiviruses system (McAffee) can't find anything.
Symptoms:

My "F" drive (WD 120Gig ntfs) has decided to keep disappearing, but would
comeback on restart...now when I try to access anything on it, or try to
check it, it comes back with the master file corrupt message.. any one help
please ??  Windows XP, Sony Vaio. Thanks