I recently installed XP and can no longer read any CD Rs that I didn't close
out so that they could be read by other CD drives.  Is there any way to
access this information?

OPS is XPHome Edition.
2 users on PC. On one side, both CD Drive's (D & E ) are recognized. But
when other user signs in: Only CD Drive E can be found.

I just received a new Dell XPS computer and put in a second SATA hard drive
for storage. I installed the 2nd drive and bios picked it and recognized
it. I formatted the drive in disk management with NTFS. Now when I boot the
PC, it takes forever to boot up, about 4 minutes now. I ...

Hey all,
I recently bought a 512 MB PNY Flash Drive (USB 2.0), brought it home,
and it worked great for about a week.  Then all of sudden yesterday, it
refused to be recognized.  I run Windows XP home, so it SHOULD have the

I have since a few days one problem. I connected my 1GB USB Stick to the USB
Port  and I hear the Beep for Detection, but I see nothing in the explorer.
So i looked to the comupter administration point and there i saw the usb
stick without a drive letter. After giving a new ...

I am trying to use a Kingston Data Transfer 2.0 Flash Driver on a Dell
Machine with Microsoft Windows XP service Pack 2.0 loaded.
The computer does not recognize the Driver, although it is supposed to have
been loaded.  I get an error message "the driver for this device has not

I need to resequence an existing hard drive setup for a friend.  He added a
160GB Seagate (SG) to supplement a 13GB Western Digital Caviar (WD). The
Seagate is jumpered as a master - shows up in the BIOS as Primary master
(plugged into IDE1 connector).  The Western Dig. is ...

Just built a brand new x64 box running XP Pro x64 (Asus A8N-E, AMD x2 4400+)
and everything's working fine so far with one weird thing.
The "launch browser" button (among the row at the top of the keyboard) will
start a new instance of IE if current focus is not on an existing IE ...

hello I wonder if I can use both my inboard soundcard and my new soundcard at
the same time cause now my pc is only using the new soundcard. anybody know
how I can get both of them to work?

A friend updated his operating system from Windows 2000 to Windows XP
Home.  After the new OS was installed, with related chipset drivers,
the hard drive on the Primary Slave drive does not appear in the
root directory.  It does show up in Disk Manager but instead of

i built my first pc 16 months ago.
ecs board
p4 3.2 ht
1.5gb ram

My motherboard (Via KT400 chipset) has 6 built-in USB 2.0 ports, provided by
the Via 8235 southbridge chip.  They've been OK, but Via USB isn't the best,
and I thought I'd try to do better.
I put in a Syba PCI card with 5 USB 2.0 ports (4 external, 1 internal) -

Hi all, I'm wondering, can you setup raid 1 on an existing Windows partition,
I wanted to add fault tolerance to my system, thanks in advanced.

A strange thing is happening with my RAM. I tried to upgrade my
computer's RAM by adding another 512 MB SDRAM 133 modul. The system
didn't recognized it, I guess because of incompatibility between two
modules. They are the same type (512 MB SDRAM 133), but not from the

Let's say I want to run lots of monitors off a single laptop .... at least
2, hopefully 4, up to 8.   So a giant virtual screen I can move apps around
on. Is this possible?  What hw sw do I need?