i have a hitach  hard drive with 160 gb capacity, i don't know how, but
reports to my system only 82 gb, i want to get the full capacity, it is
completely blank, so i can try anything to fix it, thanks

I get a power surge message on hub port with nothing attached.  The port
works fine, however, the only way to get rid of the message is to disable the
port.  I have a inspiron 8600 and dell says they just replace the entire
motherboard since the usb ports are hardwired on the ...

my bios is telling me my smart status is bad and to replace hard drive. My
question is that the specifications call my hard drive a ultra dma. Is that
equivilant to or comprable to a sata drive?

A novice here.  My neighbor lady, elderly like me, has forgotten her
admin password. I googled a Q. and the very first entry was from
'Windows Keys' that said for $45 they'd fix the prob with a download.
So.... it sounded too easy so I posted in another forum asking if it

I would like to receive an answer to the following questions:
on my computer (IBM Intellistation M Pro) have been installed two hard
disks
06P5752 IBM 73,4 GB Non Hot-Swap 3.5" 10K Ultra 160 SCSI.

I recently attempted to install Norton System Works on my Windows 2000
machine. It never installed correctly and ultimately appears to have
corrupted an OS file. System Works gives me an error when it attempts
to uninstall and re-install and the control panel add/remove programs

I've got a laptop w/NO floppy drive.  I'm trying to install s'ware that
uses a floppy key to install.  Works fine in my desktop using its floppy.
If I buy an external USB-driven floppy, will it show up as "Floppy (A:)" in
Windows Explorer?  That would be necessary.  BTW: I've ...

We have a Dell D420 notebook which have bad blocks shown in the event
viewer, sometimes the machine crash as well. We have now replaced the
HD in that notebook.
My question when I format the HD with bad blocks, do they get mark and

I bought a Western Digital external hard drive.  My first computer
found it fine.  My second computer doesn't find it.  How do I make my
second computer find it.  It's a Sony laptop with Windows XP.  
Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly,

My computer has randomly powered itself off a few times. I do not mean
it crashes or freezes or there is the blue screen of death. I mean
that I am using the computer and then instantaneously it appears to
have no power -- all lights on the case go off -- and must be

About a year ago I thought I would update the drivers of my radeon 9600
card. I uninstalled the previous drivers and everything ATI on my PC,
including in the registry, as instructed in the manual.
After re-booting the card was not recognized, and when I tried to load

Winxp system with 2 SATA HDD, one is OS the other is DATA.  I have a
removable HDD attached via one of my IDE channels which I turn on and off
when I do backups.  My main SATA HDD started having failures and I decided
to use CasperXP to do a copy of my sytem to this removable HDD ...

I hope you can advise me on a problem. I write CDs using MS Explorer. As
you know it involves a two
step process
1. Copy and Paste files from Source to CD Drive

NOTE: This is posted as a public service, _not_ spam -- I have no
connection to any of the companies below (except as a customer).
My two GPS units (Garmin and Magellan) have serial interfaces, and my
ThinkPad T41 notebook computer doesn't have a serial port, so I needed a

My daughter has a WD external drive that has been connected via USB 2.0 to
her PC for over a year.  About a week ago, the drive (F) disappeared from
her My Computer list.  A couple of simple attempts such as power off and
power on the drive brought it back.  I thought the ...