Hi, my Windows XP SP2 recognizes my USB thumb drive, but does not
assign a drive letter to it.  When I go to disk management, the device
shows up.  However, when I manually assign a drive letter to it, the
drive still does not show up in Windows explorer.  If I assign a

I get the following error on a laptop... I know the hard disk is acting up
and I am going to replace it..
But I am wondering if it has to do with the HD controller or something..
I have KNOPPIX live dvd on the laptop now and its running fine....

Am I correct that if using XP on a system that has a CDRW on it, the boot
sequence in the BIOS should be
1> the CDRW
2> the HDD

  I'm having a very odd problem.  I was playing World of Warcraft today
(feeding the addiction) and my computer hung and then rebooted.  Upon reboot,
everything was very screwed up.  I was getting weird stop codes (00BE, 000A,
0067 and 008E).  Took the computer apart, vacuumed ...

XP Home Edition... SP 2... all patches/updates applied...
I'm not able to read from or copy files to a formatted diskette and when I
attempt formatting a floppy disk I get the following error:
A:\ is not accessible... no id address mark was found on the floppy disk

Hi. I just built a new PC with a 250 GB SATA hard drive, and I'm installing
Windows XP, SP2. I want to partition the drive in some practical way, but
without going completely overboard. My thought was to have four partitions
as follows:

I have a Maxtor OneTouch II HD and it works just great with Norton
Ghost 2003.
This HD is formatted FAT32.
Just purchased a Maxtor OneTouch III HD for additional backup, this

My file servers is using a ASUS motherborad which has a built-in RAID
controller.  I have installed 4 SATA hardisks and run a RAID 0+1 disk array.
Few days ago, the motherborad has problem, the system is hanged during the
windows start-up screen.

i work for a software compnay who needs to demo their software on a
laptop...and 3gb of ram is not enough...we need 4:(
we tried different types of laptps from dell, hp, etc...none of which
shows the full 4gb of ram we physically have.(2x2gb dimm)

I'll try making a post here, but I'm not optomistic.......
I've seen similar posts, and no one seems to be able to identify what
the cause really is or a good solution from what I've read.
FACTS

Ok so I need to update my ati driver ( ragepro turbo 2x apg) Where can I
do this and what do I need to do? I'm updating it so I can run a game.
Please help!

i installed my netowrk card again after rebooting my XP Home laptop,
but it does not get recongnised by the belkin utility, when i go to
device manager, under the device status it says "this device can not
find enough free resources that it can use", so i tried disabling a few

Why would Windows XP show Ultra DMA Mode 3 in advanced setting of primary
IDE channel?
The drive is ATA-100 and BIOS seems to be supporting ATA-66 (on a Mo/Bo it's
written ATA-66 ready and in BIOS POST it says -LBA ATA 66 ).Obviously

I was given a generic USB/Firewire enclosure 3 years ago, into which I put my
40 gig white label 3.5 inch drive that I took out of my Power Mac when I
dontated that Power Mac to a school.  The drive worked great as a back-up to
my new Power Book.

Each time that I start my computer, chkdsk runs the disk check of a partition
(NTFS, non-system) on my hard drive. If I cancel the check, the system (WinXP
Pro SP2) starts and runs fine. I've run several tests of my hard drive
(Norton Disk Doctor, SpinRite, Ontrack Data Advisor), ...