I have just finished building a new desktop and had a question about
setting up my hard drives for multimedia files. I have three hard
drives in the system, a C: drive for the local OS (XP Prof.), and two
500 GB drives mirrored for data storage. We'll be using these data

I think I hit a combination of keys that made my mouse go goofy.  I no longer
have a right button, the left button doesn't allow for double clicking or
activate things when I click on drop down menus.  The scroll wheel works.  I
have gone into the mouse folder and everthing seems ...

I added 2 more GB of ram to my machine for a total of 4GB, because I wanted
to use a rather large ramdrive to take of some load from harddrives, not to
mantion the speed increase I would get.
When I booted the machine up memory test shows the correct amount, 4GB. But

Help! Dell INspiron 600m just crashed. I manually stopped it by holding
down the power button because it seemed locked up (too many programs
running, and memory going down--stupid, stupid, I know!).
Now when I start it up, I get the black screen with several options

I have discovered I have a bad partition table.  Using Google I found
several offers to sell software that will correct this.  Does anyone know
about or have experience with this software?
Thank you

ok, be gentle...  I cannot get my CD Burner to burn (interesting noises but
it spits out the CD and tells me there is an error...and yes, I made sure it
was writeable
;-).

I am looking for a program to backup my whole hard drive.  I use Windows XP
Home and I have an extra 250GB hard-drive in the same tower which I will use
as the backup for the main hard-drive.  When I got my computer brand new
from Futureshop in Canada I got one disc that was ...

We have a flash drive that we want to back up as a disk image and then use
the image to restore to other instances of the same kind of flash.   The
drive probably has some unusual geometry, and it may have a proprietary file
system on it (we haven't had a chance to examine it with a ...

Western Digital Corp. is offering free software to about 1 million
consumers to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that its computer
hard drives stored less material than promised - a discrepancy
stemming from high-tech's different standards for sizing up digital data.

I can't get my volume control to come up on the task bar it tells me it needs
to be installed but I am not sure what needs to be installed. Something about
sys 32 or something.i need help can someone help.

 I wan't buy a optical disk device for backup. options with me are:
1)CDRW+DVDROM (combo), or 2)DVD RW.
 What worries me is that the DVD formats are fast updating (Heard of
the Blue Ray, HD etc). I dont want to see my H/W need upgradation very

can I put a AGP 8 graphics card onto a board with AGP 2?

I have a P4 3.2 HT Prescott on a Asus P4P800 Deluxe in an Owltec case:
http://www.owltech.co.jp/products/pc_case/603AT/603AT.html
I changed cases about three months ago because of heat issues; I had been
using a seven year old tower case with inadequate ventilation. Since then

I have a usb flash drive which has become write protected, not sure how it
happened.
Any help to remove the protection would be vey welcome. using XP home

I installed a maxtor 6L200PO hard drive as my primary slave drive.
As far as I can see, the installation was successful (my operating
system
run etc) except for one thing: each time I boot up WinXP I get an