Help!
All of a sudden I can no longer login to my Admin account.
I get an error message to the effect that account have been locked out
due to 3 unsuccessful attempts.

I have a 320GB hard drive in an Icy Box enclosure.  I want it to show as a
drive which is partitioned as 5 x 60GB partitions and 1 x 20 GB partition.  
It is currently showing as a folder.  How can I change it?

My dual boot system (win2000 sp4; winxp sp2) recognizes this new LG 1G
flash memory and functions properly under windows 2000 sp4 (it reads
and writes at about 4meg/sec).
On windows XP (SP2), however, it writes at about 1 minute per meg.  It

Could this be a modem (US Robotics 56K external) problem.
The past several weeks I've been getting disconnected from my _dial-up_
connection to my ISP, too often several times an hour. This makes it
impossible to DL anything useful. It's not the ISP, I changed (for other

My motherboard has two SATA ports both of which feed HDDs.  I needed
additional capacity and as I intend at some stage to 'upgrade' I bought
(ebay) a new SATA drive (320GB Seagate formatted NTFS)) and a PCI SATA Card
(Via chipset)  to give me additional SATA ports.  The PCI SATA ...

Windows could not load the installer for volume.  Contact your hardware
vendor for assistance.
That's the message I get on my XP system when I hookup my Maxtor USB
external hard drive to my system.  The drive works fine on other

I currently have 2 IDE (master and slave) hd's on IDE port 1
(XP boot drive on C:\  ...first partition on hd0)
I have 2 SATA150 connectors on my board, so if I fit 2 SATA hd's, is it
possible to mirror my XP installation onto a SATA hd, ...and make it the

...that works, ...and won't blow up / trash the hard-disk in it ?
e.g.
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Drive+Bays/External+%28For+IDE+Drive%2
9/+ICY+BOX+351UE-BL+Silvr+HD+Enclosure?productId=18340
...no that I've made the effort to fit a combo pci usb/firewire card,

I have a computer with XP used solely for video editing.
The only new software would be the automatic XP updates, although I do
not think this is the problem.
It has suddenly stopped recognising the DVD/CD writer although it still

I recently was given an old Time PC (1.7Ghz cpu, 80Gb hdd, etc) i thought
this would make a good playground for my 8 yr old to learn on. I bought
another Xp home to put on it. But i am unable to format the HDD & do a fresh
install.

What I have done;
Check the Device manage - no errors
Uninstalled the Realtek sound chip and installed the lastest drivers for this.
Have Check the BIOS - sound is enabled

I changed the battery but forgot to reset the bios clock.
I changed the hour but when I pushed the right arrow to do the minutes
it jumped to a different area..... Any advice?
Thanks

I know that conventional wisdom dictates that the easiest PC upgrade
is to increase the size of the memory.
But in my particular case,if I were to do one thing, should I increase
memory to 2GB, replace my old video card (all-in-wonder 9600, no dvi

I have a HP nc8000 laptop which has a built-in slot for SD Card (running Win
XP SP2). When I pop a card into the slot, I can see the PCMCIA IDE/ATAPI in
the list of hardware, but it does NOT get a drive letter assigned!
If I reboot the laptop, with the card inserted, it shows the ...

I have installed a SATA drive, but cannot get XP to recognize it.  In
particular, Device Manager sees it and says it is working properly, but
Computer Management/Disk Management does not show it. It shows my two
IDE drives, my CDR drive, and DVD drive.  No SATA device  As far as ...