Hi there,
I have, I thought, a pretty standard two disk configuration. Disk 1 (master,
of course) has MBR, 2 partitions with partition 1 = system and "active" and
has Windows XP installed  + NTDLR. Disk 2 (slave) has MBR (was main disk long

   I have a Sony VAIO runing Windows XP Media center. If I plug a flash
drive into the USB port, I get the "Found new hardware wizard" screen. When
I allow the wizard to Automatically install the driver, it ends with the
"unable to install" message. However, if I do not allow it ...

I am running 2 printers off my Celeron 2.66 system.  One is a USB Brother
MFC which is just working fine and the other is a Lexmark OPRA K laser
running on a parrallel port.  It actually runs fine also except that on
reboot of the computer, and also after turning on the Lexmark ...

Can someone please help me!
My computer crashed the other week and I have had to reboot the entire
syetem. Athough the computer works, it has many gremlins.
On my keyboard the @ and " keys are the otherway round, e.g - pressing shift

Have an E-machine that has worked great in an office enviroment for many
years.  I thought it was time for a system restore (OEM) to get all the old
crap out of it and used the system restore CD's to do this.  Now system goes
thru the start up screen and an error message come up ...

When I try to play the game Call Of Duty I get a message saying that
the  Miles Sound System is not installed. I can't paly any sound
althought everything is set up corectly and the computer says the
system is working'

I've had this problem twice now and lost data both times, so I'm trying
to avoid having it again.  My older computer will occasionally freeze
up (PIII, but running windows xp). This in itself is usually not an
issue, just reboot and we're ready to go.  But sometimes I have a USB

I have a hard drive, a Western Digital Caviar 300 GB, that I was using
in an external drive kit.  I've got it more than half full, about 180
GB, of backups that I don't want to lose.  I had another external, but
since I carry them around a lot, it eventually was detroyed by a

I have clean installed windows with a ASUS ATI A9250 Graphics card and it
installed the ATI graphics drivers from Microsoft, I then downloaded the
latest drivers from the ASUS website and also the ATI website and have been
having trouble installing them, I get a message saying ...

I had to reformat my C drive and re-install Windows XP. Prior to th
problem with windows, I had to other HD's installed. After th
reformat, Windows loaded fine and all was fine, except that windows X
is not assigning a drive letter to my 2 other HD's. I have SP 2 and

I have an nVidia card that has a fan that sometimes makes a lot of
racket. I have used a can of air to clean out the fan and no joy.
Sometimes I turn on the computer and it makes no noise at all, other
times it makes noise. It doesn't matter if the computer's been on for

My primary HD (HD0) failed and I am attempting to re-install XP Home on
a new HD. There is a second HD (HD1) with data only on the system. Both
drives were and are currently jumpered as 'Cable Select' and the second
is connected. HD0 had XP on 'C' and a second 'D' partition. HD1 ...

I have an epson stylus photo RX 700
The printer side of it installed whithout any problems but the scanner
was a complete pain.
I seem to have had many problems installing scanners and this has been

I have an ASPIRE Laptop, with Windows XP installed on it, the problem i
that the cd rom will not "respond" i put a disc in, the cursor change
to a spinning cd, then nothing, i can't eithen re-install the drive
(as the drive won't work.

I have an ASPIRE Laptop, with Windows XP, the problem is that when i
insert a floppy disc into the drive and click start, run, "A:" it will
not open it although the light on the front flashes, But i can read it
if i open it through My Computer, or with Word.