A software that I was looking at somehow managed to replace or erase or
corrupt the MBR and the MFT on a Seagate 500 GB drive.  This drive was
formatted as NTFS.  My operating system is on another drive.  My Windows XP
sees the drive but is calling it Healthy(Active) and ...

It happened on two different microsoft wireless mouse: natural wireless
laser mouse 6000, and a smaller one I forgot the name.
Some applications "blinks" (I think it erases its content and repaints it).
E.g. outlook express, and an old backgammon game called jellyfish.

I have a Dell 300m laptop with a built in GB nic.  Users have been
complaining that when they are on the road starting up can take quite a
while.  They sit a varios stages of the boot an login.
I have used some utils like BOOTVIS that analzes the boot process and see

It doesn't happen every time I turn my computer on, but I get a blue screen
like the computer is running a scan disk before Windows boots up and it says
something like there is an NTFS error and the computer needs to check the
system for consistency.  

It dosn't happen everytime I turn my computer on, but I have been getting a
blue screen like a scan disk saying that the NTFS is checking for consistency
and then goes through a long process.  
How do I fix this?  Is this a hardwear problem and a sign that my hard drive

Hope someone can help.
When I insert any dvd the dvd drive light flashes twice and clicks
twice but nothing can be read from it.
Windows explorer acts as though it's empty.

I have just installed the Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 5000...
Occasionally, as I use the mouse, "pop-up help" windows appear to aid me in
whatever I an doing (e.g. connectivity and/or magnifying window).
How can I go to the help files???

I've got 3 cameras.   All 3 plug into the usb and create a drive and
then via explorer I can just drag and drop files from the camera chip to
my PC.   Just like any usb device.
A friend got a new camera, a Canon Powershot A590, and we plugged it in

I recently bought two external USB drives for backing up the internal hard
drive on my Windows XP SP3 computer. I also bought Acronis True Image 11
Home to do the backups. I thought that when the program did its first
backup, it would reformat the external drive from FAT32 to ...

I have had this problem for a while now.  I have tried a bunch of fixes, like
the upper and lower filters registry fix.  The uninstal and reinstal (both
phisical and software wise). Uninstall and reinstally (from device manager)
my IDE controllers, all to no avail.  Every time I ...

Looking for all drivers for my Toshiba Sattelite S2800-200
who can help me ?
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I am using Win XP SP3 on a Pentium M based laptop.
I have just noticed that all of a sudden plugging in a new USB device
requires the computer to reboot before I can use the device.
For example, I just bought a new USB flash drive. When I plugged it in for

Is there any way, whatsoever, that Windows XP Professional w/Service Pack 2
can utilize more than 4GB of RAM? I've installed the 64-bit version and while
the OS can now see all 8GB of RAM, the 64-bit version leaves much to be
desired in the way of compatibility with apps, games, ...

I have a Linksys WRTP54G router.  I'm running multiple wireless devices from
it plus 3 wired PCs.
Recently it has started to provide totally unstable wired connections.  The
PCs are constantly complaining that "A Network Cable is Unplugged".

When I click on drive C: in Explorer it takes my machine ages to show the
file directory.
If I am in Internet Explorer and go to Bookmarks and hold my cursor over the
down arrow it moves at about 1 file per second.