Got a notebook with a sata drive in it that was improperly shutdown (ie lost
power entirely).  It now won't boot and is coming up with the infamous
"missing or corrupted ntoskrnl.exe".
The problem is that the notebook was delivered with recovery cd's but not

hi, am having problem with my sound devices as i reinstalled windows xp in my
laptop with a new cd i bought two days ago and since then no more sound
troubleshooting doesnt seem to work it also says there's no sound devices
installed. could someone help please? thank you

WinXP Pro SP2
How to stop Quicktime icon from appearing in systray ?
More generally, how to stop any given app from appearing in systray ?
Thanks.

I have a 4gb portable HD that I can access when booting from a DOS floppy.
I also have a 256mb pen drive that I made DOS-bootable.
If I boot from the USB pen drive, DOS doesn't see the 4gb USB portable
drive. It DOES see it if I boot from the floppy.

I believe you to be correct.  i had the same issue and went through most of your listed procedures before i found this site.  the Maxtor D740X-6L produced the STOP: C0000221 unknown hard error everytime i applied SP2. most bizzar XP SP 2 install i've encountered.  im swapping the ...

I've installed it, but every time I turn on computer and try to use lifecam,
I get the message "Plug your LifeCam webcam into a USB port and then
adjust...."
But it IS plugged into a USB port. I can alway get it to work by unplugging

hey - i think i actually found the answer.
there is a reset button on the bottom of the mouse.
and there is a reset button on the receiver that plugs into the USB.  click them both and vuualla! - it works again....
we'll see how long this lasts.

I've just installed a TV card in my computer, and even if there's no
problem installing either software or drivers, when i try to run the
application to configure the channels and actually watch TV, the
message "Invalid Class Chain" appears...

I'm searching for an external device to add the following to my PC - USB 2.0
ports, a firewire port and a multi card reader.
I've found internal versions but not external.
Connection I assume will be via USB port on the main box.

I have an USB MP4 player, its not recognize by my Toshibe Staellite with
Windows XP home edition SP2.
Its appears as unrecognize device.
Thanks in advance

I am attempting to add four 300 gig ide drives to my Windows XP system for
video/audio storage.
I'm using those flipper USB cable adaptors to connect the drives and the drives
are powered by a 300 watt PS.

I have recently bought a Nokia N91, I have plugged it in and used it as a
mass storage and windows here found the new hardware, and then installed it
and it worked fine. However when I set it to syncronise with Nokia PC Suite
which is Nokia's own software for the device, I have ...

First of all I should say that I don't really know under which subforum
to put this, maybe Vista, maybe something more software related? If I'm
wrong I appologize! Anyway, here goes:
I recently formatted my C: drive to install Windows Vista. I also

Actually this happens a lot. If theres nothing wrong with the drive. but its not showing up in your list under the pull down, usually it will show up if you go to "my computer" at the top of the pull down list.
Recommendation. Dont rely on letters as they can float depending on ...

My computer restarting on a regular bases and comeing up with error in the
system log:
Error code 0000009c, parameter1 00000002, parameter2 8054d570, parameter3
f6002000, parameter4 0000017a.