Friends,
I am using Windows XP with SP2.
As I found 40GB HDD insufficient I bought one 80GB HDD to use it as an
external drive with the help of USB External Casing.

I re-installed Windows XP Home - SP2 due to some other problems and
now my internal slave drive is not visible in  "My Computer". During
Boot up checked the setup and the drive is recognized. It also shows
in the Device Manager and says is working OK.

I just reinstalled a system for a friend with XP.  I also installed a second
hard drive and a second cd rom.
All work fine but I'm curious as to why the second cd rom shows up as
CD Ram drive (F:)

I'm having an issue where I am unable to cold/warm/hot dock my laptop on the
Dell docking station. It has worked fine for over a year, but now I'm getting
the following symptoms when I hook it up:
1) Does not recognize keyboard

Whenever I notice computers are slowing down I schedule chkdsk /f to run on
the next reboot.  However after chkdsk has run the results do not display on
the screen long enough to read them.  Is there a way to make it stop at then
end of chkdsk so that I can read the results and ...

I already made a post about how ipoint caused flickering in quicken but I
started looking around and fount out that is not only quicken but several
other programs. This problem goes way back. Why hasn't Microsoft fixed this  
yet? Are they ever gonna fix this? If you looking at ...

On system startup (either from hibernate or shut-down) my Princeton LCD 17M
monitor reports "no signal."  This happens intermittently, maybe once out
every 5 to 10 startups.  In all cases, I've been able to power down my Compaq
Presario and restart without a repeat of the problem ...

At one point in time my XP Pro did have "other" software on it but I seemed
to have a lot of problems. I now have a couple of generic optical drives.
They are both suppose to be RW while one is CD and the other is DVD. I
reformatted my HD and have been reinstalling not quite ...

My nephew gets his internet service through a USB wireless adapter.  If I
were to put a eithernet card in his computer, will his X-Box work through
that eithernet card?
Thank you,

first off i would like to express gratitude for this groups existance.  i
see a lot of pc related problems get resolved here so i feel asure i am in
the right group!
ok on to my problem.  to put it in a nutshell,  all appears to be good with

I have more USB devices than my old 2003 basic Dell Dimension 8300 with
Windows XP Home with SP1 has ports for.
So, I bought a powered D-Link DUB-7 2.0 hub for the "light duty" gadgets,
leaving the powerful stuff plugged into the computer.

I have WindowsXP.
I have installed a new 500Gb HDD and
restored, via NortonGhost12.0, all the data
from the "C"  &  "D" partitions of the old

A couple of weeks ago, I lost both usb's;  the "support" told me to delete
(under Device manager) and restart the computer .. that worked.  However,
since then, one of my "devices" is no longer recognized by Windows.  All
others work ... any ideas?

Re: Presario S5100NX Boots on USB Drive
This S5100NX hangs on boot up when the USB Flash Drive 1 GIG is inserted
into the front panel USB slot.
It boots perfect wihout the USB drive.  The F1 setup has the boot order as;

I'm adding a new 2nd hard drive for a friend.
The exisiting hard drive is a Maxtor Diamond 10 (200gb) and it's jumper is
set to Cable Select (this is & will stay as Master.) The new drive will be
the slave.