I recently bought a 300 GB Maxtor HD at Future Shop (returned item, open
box) that still had the Windows XP operating system on it. I have mounted it
in an external case and connected by Firewire to the computer. I have
removed the partition and then re-partitioned and formatted ...

I thought I could share this as it has driven me completely bonkers.  I
have just upgraded from win 200 to xp pro SP2
All ok except windows refuses to see my usb drives either on memory
stick or phone both of which work fine on other machines etc.  I have

I have a DELL Inspiron laptop which now fails to start at all even if
the startup screen appears if I try to access the BIOS it hangs.  It
will startup in as much as the caps-lock button will flash but it gets
no further.

I am having troubles with my Pionner DVR-110D (latest firmware) and XP.
- Deepburner stops when writing with light on (no messages. Erase is OK)
- Roxio 6 stops when writing with lights off
- Nero write correctly

I cannot find a way of converting an existing Windows XP install on a
single hard disk to a 2-disk Raid 1 (mirroring) configuration.  The
NVIDIA onboard RAID utility (Asus with NForce 570 SLI for AMD chipset)
expressly forbids converting an existing hard disk, so I can only

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This might be a stupid question, but when I put a blank cd-r disc into my
drive, it is not recognised by the computer. The green light flashes a bit
and then message "put blank disc into Drive D" appears as though there is
nothing in there.Can you help an ignorant, but frustated ...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me format my partition. It
wont let me format because it is in use or something. I could be
missing something but, please tell me how to format this.
Here is an image of my problem, I am using Paragon Partition manager 8

Device Mgr (XP home) shows "Windows successfuly loaded device driver but
cannot find the hardware device (code 41)"  My LG DVD Rom drive was 5 years
old so I just installed a new Sony DVD/CD rewritable unit but am getting the
same message.  The old unit worked fine two days ago.  ...

My Win XP machine will not boot.  The "XP starting" screen appears.
Then the machine reboots.  The cycle repeats indefinitely.  I changed
the jumper on the hard drive to Slave and put it into a working XP
machine as a secondary drive.  XP correctly recognizes the "faulty"

Using XP Pro  service pack 2. Two gigs of ram p4.
I have a strange problem. If I right click on the task bar and choose
task manager, it doesn't come up for about 5 minutes and then when it
does it hangs.

I computer have got a little louder. Could that be the fans or the hard
drive. My two fan are still spining. Im trying to find out why my computer
got louder.

I know that there are Serial numbers for system, software as well as
hardware.
But what does serial number mean for?
how do they produce by massive production?

Im running a dual monitor, 5 year old computer. I replace the video and
network cards. I use to format my hard drive like every three month. My
question is what is a safe temp. for your hard drive. Mine is going between
41-44,45 was the highest that i see it. Do i need to replace ...

Hi, Can anyone please help me. My dad is having a few problems wit
pop-ups on his computer, but they are not the pop-ups from advertisers
they are from his own computer, things like the start-up menu, and othe
windows, they  happen pretty frequently and only when he moves his mous