XP Home
All of a sudden all of my USB ports have decided to malfunction. After
right clicking the USB symbol in Device Manager the device status box
indicates "No drivers are installed for this device." On further reading I am

How do I get a SATA drive to run as a master?  Why is it so much harder
then an IDE?

I have a laptop that is getting the SMART message on bootup declaring
an immediate failure is coming up and back up the drive.
I have Acronis 8.0 and would like to make an image of the drive, then
replace it with a new laptop drive.

Wonder if anyone can help please.
I have a 3 yr old HP computer on which the internal dvd /cd writer
is playing up,they are rather slim and it does not look easy to fit
another non HP writer in it's place.

For some reason, I'm not getting any new messages for this group.  But
I get new messages for some of the other MS Newsgroups.  Weird!
If this message gets through -- I just got a WD external harddrive;
started it up and moved some data over.  

I have a laptop with XP Home SP2.  My sound is gone.  I can't find a service
for sound.  There's a sound applet in the control panel, but I still can't
get any sound.
The only sound I hear is a little system beep occasionally.

After writing data files to disc, they become read only. It seems the Disc
has become read only. How can I prevent this in future and to enable the
disc for reuse.Thank you, Ron.

I have big problem with driver for Altera Flex FPP board PCI 9050. I
installed it but it isn't work properly (WinXP). When I tried to get
more info I discoverd  that there is IO range conflict with "processor
to agp controller". I was trying to change the range but button is not

Setting up a NEW computer...desktop
What are your thoughts of having "only" my programs on my internal "C" SATA
drive and saving all my personal created information on an "external" SATA
drive?

I have an HP Pavillion desktop in which the hard drive has crashed. The
drive that came with the system is a SATA drive. I have restored my
files and reloaded the OS using an IDE drive that i had lying around.
it took quite a bit of time reloading all of the specialized HP drivers

I`m new to PC Banter forum and I need help please.
I`m running Windows XP and have Norton Internet Security 2006
installed.
Recently, for no apparent reason Windows started crashing randomly. On

A few days ago I was using my desktop a few days ago just typing out some
documents and working on spread sheets, checking email etc. I shut down the
computer and went to sleep.
when I got to my computer the next morning it was switched on in that the

I more or less resolved this problem, but it might still indicate some
underlying problem with my Windows XP installation, so I hope I can get some
help.
(I'm running XP SP 2, last updated about two weeks ago, on an Intel Pentium

i have 80 gb samsung hard disk while partioning it shows only 75 gb .
why?

How do I wipe my c drive clean and then can I reload XP?