I just added an external DVD Writer to my Windows XP PRO system fully updated
by Microsoft patches.  The drive works fine and is seen by all applications
including MS-DOS prompt, but Windows Explorer does not show drive?  It has
constant drive letter L: and is the second 1394a ...

I had a bad experience recently where my PC ran very slowly, I thought at
first it was not going to boot, but eventually it did, and now it seems back
to normal.  
I was considering buying an external hard drive and making a copy of my

I have reloade XP numerous times and it loads fine, looks as though
everything will be fine but as it starts to boot I get  a 2 milisecond blue
screen, How can I diag/repair without being able to get into the OS?...
console? what commands,

hey all,
i just installed a 2nd hard drive in my pc and was wondering if i set the
jumper pin to cable select, what does that mean?
will that affect a dual boot attempt?

Hello...
I have a few final questions before I start my project tomorrow...
I have an Intel D945GNT Motherboard.  It has a built in SATA RAID
Controller, (Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager.)

I've got a DVD-RAM drive in my notebook.  I bought blank DVD's, but I can't
burn to them.  I get a message saying that it's not writable media.  I
thought a DVD-RAM would write to DVD too?  What gives?

I have an XP Home SP2 computer here that was recently repaired from a
serious virus & spyware infestation. Somewhere in the course of repair I
lost access to the DVDRW and CDROM drives. Device Manager shows Error Code
39 on both of them. I have tried the following fixes:

Every time I close a programme (most commonly IE7.0, Symantec Live Update,
Windows Help, Word, but also others) I get error messages lik this (note that
the addresses change every time):
The instruction at 0x0574be5e0 referenced at "0x00000ba0". The memory could

While recovering from a C drive crash we inadvertently removed the partion
from the D drive.
We have not done anything else to it, nor format or anything.  It still
shows as D in Windows Explorer but a message comes up that it needs to be

My wife's computer got a severe voltage spike and fire the
motherboard,(478pin)Compaq Pesario S5100nx using Windows XP so I
bought a new ECS nForce3-A motherboard & AMD 3000+ CPU Plus fan and no
way to backup what is on the harddrive.

thats the problem it starts to start then freeses
please help

I have spent ages trying to figure out what was causing my system to freeze
when i plugged my speedtouch usb modem in.
now i know...
for everybody's benefit... here is the answer...

I have a USB 8Gb memory stick, formatted FAT32. When I go to copy
files onto each (each is only a few MB) the drive reports fill after
2Gb of content has copied. I am copying using XP SP 2 Pro
Is this possibly a driver issue and is there a fix for it, or does it

hey all,
i just installed a 2nd hard drive in my pc. when you go to Power Options in
the Control Panel there's a feature that says Turn Hard Disk off after a
period of time.

For a few days now I have had a problem with my dvd drive. It cannot read
certain cd-roms, cant play music cd's when it did previously and I cant burn
cd\dvd's. I have tried a cleaning disk without success and I have also tried
looking for some diagnostic software off the net but ...