I have two eMachines, T1105 and T2862, both running Windows XP, SP2 with all
the updates. They run fine.
I'd like to swap their hard drives (120 and 60 GB). However, for some
reason, neither HD works on another machine. All I'm getting is a screen

Hi i am trying to reset my laptop with the disc supplied
but the built in cd rom drive is dead. i have an external
drive but it wont boot the reset disc from this drive as
the external drive is only booted when window xp starts! i

Has anyone seen the below message. The message was reported in Event viewer
"The device, \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block"

I'm trying to restore volume control and I've followed the troubleshoot
instructions and they don't seem to work. For some reason it cant expand
sndvol32 and I need some help otherwise I have no sound.

Please excuse my ignorance but I had a secondary HD for personal storage on
my comp which I set so that only my admin account could access it.
For some reason the user account became damaged and although I managed to
access all the data in My Documents etc for this account via a ...

Hello, this is my issue. I have had a maxtor 200gig hard drive sitting,
untouched and un opened, for about a year. I decided to make it an
extrenal drive. I purchased the NexStar 3 external enclosure for the
hard drive, installed it, and everything runs fine.  The only ctach is

can anyone please tell me where i can get an ethernet, and other
drivers ex. video card?
Model Number- 8199-y13
if you need more information, just ask...

I just bought a 200 GB HD from Office Depot,
but Windows XP says it's only 131GB.
What's up with that?

During a system restore, the hard drive locked after restart and hangs on the
Welcome window.  Have tried starting from disk, command prompt, and last
known working point to no avial.  Now have the hard drive hooked to a laptop
through a USB case.  How do I unlock the hard drive ...

how do you get Windows Xp to recognize a new disk drive? I just physically
installed a new dvd-rom in my comp, yet it does not show up in my computer or
under "add/remove harware"....

Notebook power adapter
Where can you purchase a "Universal" Notebook power adapter that will fit
several makes and models of Laptops and Notebooks?
I have a good working Gateway notebook power battery, adapter, cable but

My friend just got a new mobo and sata hds's and when he boots up he's got
an icon in the system tray that says
"Safely remove hardware"
Both of his drives are internal and not in raid. I'm looking for a way to

Sirs
I connect external DVD ROM to USB and was working fine. However, when i try
to use it recently, i find the PC cannot detect it.
When I try to use same USB cable connect digital camera, it works fine on

A friend has a computer that shows the LAN connection as having a cable off.
I have replaced the NIC, replaced the cable and we had the cable modem
replaced. I did a virus scan and sure enough, the machine was infected. The
virus scan claims to have removed the infection but I ...

In Event Viewer I'm seeing several occurrences daily of Error 1005,
with the message:
"Your Windows product has not been activated with Microsoft yet.
Please use the Product Activation Wizard within 30 days."