We're trying to convert a 160GB Western Digital external hard drive from
FAT32 to NTSF.
It will be hooked via USB to a Dell desktop running XP home ed..  I'm pretty
sure I've done this before, but not so sure on an external drive.  I don't

I'm using XP MCE on a Toshiba notebook PC.
I keep having trouble in characters being skipped when I type rapidly.
This is most apparent when I type a double letter (letter might come out
leter), but it sometimes happens in other cases if I type real fast.

Ok, it started with my dell optical USB mouse. It would just not move,
and the light would be on and the laser would detect movement. I would
try to move the mouse but nothing would work. I also found out the Dell
USB mice are made by Logitech. So I bought a normal Logitech optical ...

I would like to build a new cpu and was wondering , if I could put the two
hard drives i have into the new cpu . I have a 40 gb master and a 300 gb
slave drive . the 40 gas the os and some other things , like nero and active
sync . the 300 has all my downloaded software and ...

I have recently installed my windows XP, the process went smoothly, but I had
encounterd some drivers issues after the installation.
I managed to solve the ethernet adapter driver issue, but I couldn't solve
the audio device problem.

I have just installed a Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio card to replace my on
board sound card  on my XP SP2 system.  I am not clear on how to activate
the crystallization and virtual surround sound features on the Sounblaster.
Is it done automatically or do I have to do it manually ...

the error messege says Windows cannot start this hardware device because its
configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code
19)
Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.

Hi everyone. First, I want you to excuse me for my English.
I have my XP from an original Windows cd. As you know, when you
install it for the first time, you have 30 days to activate via
Internet or by phone. In my case, I could activate automatically by

I'm trying to install a new Western Digital 160 gig hard drive.  The
old harddrive is SAMSUNG SV1533D.  It was originally part of a
dual-boot ocnfiguration.  Then the other disk crashed, and the
computer refused to boot from the Samsung.  I took the computer to a

On WinXP home I have a 250Gbyte SATA drive and I would like to move to a
500Gbyte SATA2 drive without reinstalling everything.  Is there a way to do
this?
Matt

I have recently begun to have problems with my computer with Windows XP Pro
SP2 freezing and failing to shut down. Initially I thought it was my power
supply failing but have now found the source of the problem - my second
SATAII HDD .

I have a line interactive ups that I would like to setup to shut down XP
nicely if there's a power failure.  The UPS service is running, the com
port is connected to the UPS, and in control panel/power
options/UPS/configure/critical alarm I have set the option to shut down

Based on your expertise, is it possible for me to boot my Dell
Inspiron
1300 from an usb external HDD?
I'm planning to use Win XP Pro. I have checked through the BIOS in

I'm looking at purchasing an HP notebook from their business line.  There are two choices for graphics adaptor as shown below.
 Graphics:
   Discrete: ATI Mobility RadeonTM X2300, with 64 or 128 MB of video memory (256 MB HyperMemory*)
   UMA: Mobile Intel GMA X3100, up to 384 MB ...

I need to read the TOC (Table of Contents) of Audio CDs,  access the
appropriate pointers to the audio data (in the 2532 byte sectors) on
the disk, then retireve the data.
Would someone point me to the appropriate API calls or IOCTL calls to