I try to run "chkdsk" but when the computer starts I get the
message (C: drive):
"Cannot open volume for direct access."
I have WindowsXP and a Seagate 500Gb drive.

I m trying to hook up a Qkidata Microline 320 9 pin printer to my lapto
(Toshiba) I went out and got a USB to DB25 Female Parallel Printer Cabl
Adapter My computer dont know what this is even after I load the drive
its steal said its a unknown device Please hel

My hard drive in my toshiba laptop has gone out...agian.
I want to replace it, but know nothing about what to look for. I've
been looking on newegg.com.
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=380&page=4

Lately, when I open programs or the computer is woken up from Standby, RAM
rapidly drops from, say, 300MB (out of 512MB total) to near zero.  I can tell
because my Free RAM XP Systray Icon shows this extremely rapid dwindling.
Then the hard drive starts spinning nonstop, I guess ...

A friend of mine bought a HP 1040e external USB DVD burner. She says she's
having problems burning std DVD-R's and when it does work, it only burns a
portion of the selected files... never all of the files.
The burner came with Nero 7 Essentials which she installed, she's running

All of a sudden all my services were disabled. I went into msconfig and
enabled them but that did not enable all. I then went in and manually enabled
some services I thought needed to be started. Problem is my printer does not
show up in Printers and Faxes and I can't print. When ...

I got a system with 4 internal hard disks and one external USB. It runs
on XP Pro SP3. Recently I had some problems with my external USB hard
disk, and it stopped working on my system. Eventually I figured out that
it was actually a power supply problem on the enclosure and had ...

I had to rebuild system and did not have driver disk. I downloaded the NIC
drivers and the NIC adapter installed according to Device Mgr; however, the
Ethernet Controller still shows uninstalled and I can't connect to the Inet.
I was under impression, maybe wrongfully so, that ...

I have a HP ScanJet 5400 C-Series that I was running on my old
computer with Windows XP SP3 and I'm trying to install it on my new
computer which also has Windows XP SP3.
I have the original installation disk plus HP's final update sj668en.

I posted this earlier and can't find the post, so I'm assuming something went
wrong.  Sorry if a duplicate appears.
Dell PowerEdge 830 has 2 80GB SATA drives in RAID 1 configuration using
built-in Adaptec CERC RAID controller.  There are 2 partitions, C (12GB) and

hey everyone i hope i am in the right place, i just built a new desktop
AMD 940 Black edition @ 3.517Ghz
4 Gigs Corsair XML 8500 C7 6-6-8-24 @2.0v
HITACHI 1TB 7200/, Corsair TX 750 PSU

Hi, If I have my a printer connected via the parallel port and attach
another via USB will they both work ok ? Will I need additional software
?Ones a Canon the other `s an Epson.
XP home SP3

I had taken a backup of the entire C: XP partition (NTFS) to a
transcend portable HDD. How to restore it to a new HDD ? pl your
valuable guide.
A.Bora

The system drive (partitioned as C: and F:) of my XP system is starting to
fail when it gets hot.
The system just freezes and must be power-cycled - preferably being left to
cool down. I'm pretty sure it's the drive as the Event log is showing

After getting the blue screen of death on my 6-year-old Dell Dimension 8250
(running WinXP SP3), I ran Checkdisk/R. It "fixed" the hard drive, at least
to the point where I was able to back it up with Acronis True Image (I did a
full backup to each of two external hard drives). ...