1st, sorry for cross posting this in XP General, but I didn't see this sub
forum until it was too late and I don't know how to remove the other post.
I bought a 250GB Seagate USB 2.0 external hard drive to free up my internal
HD. XP does not seem to like it. I have copied many ...

It seem many have problems with their usb , I found this site which help me
with my usb , See if it can help you as well
http://www.usbman.com/
....

does anyone know of a good site that shows how to dismantel a hard drive and
remount the platters in another drive
thank you

I've posted in another thread for some help so that I might better
understand some terminology relating to the failure of my sole internal HDD.
Now I respectfully ask for recommendations for diagnostic/repair
software to address problems with HDDs. CHKDSK runs through my entire

I have a(formerly) working USB Flash drive that is now not detected on
a single machine.,  In fact this machine has stopped detecting all USB
flash drives but the ports work normally for printing etc.  No new
software was installed and the flash drives work on all other

I just upgraded my processor from an AMD Sempron to an AMD Athlon 64. Why
can't I get windows to recognize that it can run 64 bit programs now?

I have a Logitech Elite keyboard.  It did not come with a mouse.  When I turn
on the F-Lock key and restart the computer it stays on which is exactly what
I want it to do.  But when I shut down the PC completly and turn off the
surge strip then turn on the surge strip and turn ...

I have a USB 2.0 PCI card installed, i've installed the drivers, and the
"enhanced" controllers are present in Device manager, showing no errors.  
Regular USB devices work just fine...mouse, printer, palm, etc.  However,
when i plug in my USB 2.0 thumbdrive or Digital Camera, ...

Just swapped out my TDK 4X DVD burner for a Sony DRU-820 (16x double sided,
double density).  Got it from a PC my daughter gave me.  I built it for her.
The burner came with an appropriate version of Nero.  Her ex has it, will
never see it again.  Guess I'll have to buy it now.

My computer reboots randomly. Like for instance Ill be playing a game and
next thing you know I hear a loud stat-icky noise. Then it reboots. I tried
buying a new mother bored and that didn't work. And when I hit "Send Error
report" windows gives me the problem which is a Video ...

What is a virtual memory. Is it a part of RAM?
Thanks
shah
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I recently replaced the 2 hard disk drives in my machine with 2 larger
drives. Today I wanted to temporarily replace the present D drive with
the old D drive to get some files from it, so I did the following.
1. I took out the top drive which for some reason I thought was the D

PC is running slow and freezes up for a few seconds at times.  When lo
off, error message:  SUNKIST.NOTIFYICONDATA.HWMD comes up. Have t
close several times before logging off.  No new installs of any ne
programs, however, some music downloads.  Fan on PC runs constantl

Not sure if this is the correct group, so please don't respond with
only: "this isn't the correct group"...it wastes my time and your
time.  :^)
Anywho! I have an external hard drive (Maxtor 80G) with about 1/2 of

Windows XP SP2
Nvidia GeForceMX 440 AGP8X
Monitor Samsung SyncMaster 940b
- The problem:  Everytime I boot the computer and it loads windows xp,