My computer can not read a HDD that is inside a portable media player.  The
HDD is new and is probably unformatted.  I cannot format it while it is in
the media player.  If I remove the HDD from my computer, put in my new HDD
and format it, and then put my computer's HDD back in ...

Have a Sony with XP Home installed. No disc, just hidden partition or something.
I would like to change a DVD Player to a DVD-RW which has better specs. Would doing this get me into
a heap of trouble?
Thanks,

I recently screwed up and accidentally plugged a power supply for an
external hard drive into my svideo out of the laptop. The resulting
damage was that I now only get black and white out of my svideo (there
is a pinkish hue).The built in monitor still works fine. Would a new

I cannot read data from my CD drive.  I can write to it using burner software
but cannot read any data from it.  In safe mode I can read from it, so the
drive itself is ok.  Device Manager shows it is working properly.  

Hello - I am trying to get Norton Ghost 2002 to recognise a Philips CDRW
drive in my new WinXP home system. (This is when using the Ghost boot
disk for WRITING images to CDR) - at the moment that drive is not listed
in the drop down of drives for writing the image TO. Using the ...

When I print a job that seems like more than 5 pages, my computer crashes to
a blue screen that says Machine Check Exception:  Stop 0x0000009C
(0x00000000, 0x8054D370, 0xC40D4000, 0x00000136).
This problem only seems to happen when I am printing.  My printer does not

I've got an ASUS A6 SMP laptop with Windows XP Pro Edition SP2. My wireless
Logitech keyboard + mouse USB-connector works fine, so do the USB-connection
to my digi camera, aswell as USB for my Creative MP3 player.
But, the USB for my MAPOWER external harddisk stopped working! :(

Can someone explain to me what exactly a LUN is, in a usb setting.  I
tried reading all the posts and even trying to convert what I learned
from scsi, but I am still confused.
Thanks

I instaled a MS Wireless Desktop Elite on my system and the computer will not
go into sleep mode nor will the screen saver work.  I have installed updated
drivers for the Video card, Monitor, & Bios.  What's next?

WIN XP Prof
As I am not sure what the wording is for what I want to ask, I wil try
my best to explain.
I just had a hdd crash and lost almost all my data. I have read a little

I left a detailed post earlier, no one responded, so here's a simpler post:
My system:
Dell Dimension 4700, Pentium IV (3.0 GHz), 1.5 GB of RAM
Windoes XP Home Edition, Version 2002, SP2

Has anyone recently purchased a Intel® CoreT Duo Processor (T2400 -- but
don't think ghz is the issue) notebook and noticed that a high % of the time
(~ 25% +) IEXPLORE.EXE becomes locked-up on launch ?
Somewhat less frequently, IEXPLORE.EXE can lockup on redirects to urls of

Will my system run better if I switch from onboard sound to a PCI card?

I've got a problem with the TV-card "Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS". If inserted
in the USB-slot there appear two devices in the device-manager: "Cinergy
Hybrid T USB XS" and "USB audiodevice". The audiodevice has a yellow warning
symbol and error code 10 is being displayed. The ...

I leave my computer on most of the time, as it is a de facto media
server for the rest of the house.
Very often if it has been on for longer than 24 hrs without a restart ,
the screen goes "strange"  ; all titles disappear from icons on the