I have XP, SP-2 working fine on one 160 GB HDD now. I've just installed a new
250 GB drive and want to use a cloning software to provide an incremental
backup of all that is on my 160. Will XP allow me to keep both HD connected
even though both have an identical active primary ...

I recently added a portable disk via an IEEE 1394 port. The disk drive, a
Maxtor 160GB ATA-133 drive, is in a "ULTRA" mini disk enclosure. The
enclosure has an ON-OFF switch for its 12 volt DC power supply. Cycling from
OFF to ON causes windows XP to lose track of the disk. ...

Withera.exe a file inside my Windows\system32 folder keeps on asking
permission to connect to the web. I always deny it and searching the web for
the file gives no results. I run Adaware and Spybot Search & destroy at
regular intervals and always keep them up-to-date.

[First Problem] Is when I plug my ipod into my computer or any device with a
usb cord...It takes like 1-5 minutes to pick up the device and I don't know
what the problem is. I ran an anti virus, spyware and checked for any system
errors..but everything seemed fine.

First of all my computer started having mouse problems, either it
would't work, or was very slow/erratic.  I found an article that was
recently posted at microsoft discussing the problem & how to fix.
I followed the article step by step, removing drivers, devices, and

I've been trying to load 2 programs, through my CD... Logitech Harmony and
Sony Walkman. With both programs, at about 3/4 through, a pop-up states the
program was interupted and could not be completely installed. I have trurned
off, Virusscan, Windows Firewall and lengthened the ...

when i turn my pc on i get a quick black screen with phrases something to the
effect off pick windows xp recovery and something else. then it boots up
.what could this be

This problem just started after having worked flawlessly for 6 months.  I
attempt to perform a save data backup, the items write to the temporary burn
folder, but the icon to start writing doesn't pop up.  Going into my
computer, and double clicking the D drive gives an error ...

I get this error when running the setup for google earth normally i would try
to get help from google but this has happened before obviously therror report
was slightly different but can any1 help me out here and tell me what i can
do to fix this problem

I changed my start up settings so that my PC would start up in safe mode, so
that I could fix a problem.  I have now fixed the problem and want to resume
start up in NORMAL mode. I have hit F8 and managed to get into the start up
options but although I keep altering the settings ...

I'm having a wierd problem where windows media player will not
recognize/play DVD's lately, but plays music cd's just fine. During
troubleshooting I tried the following:
<Open My Computer.

To anyone--I just purchased a NEC 16XDVD+-R/RW Double Layer Drive.  It came
with Nero Express 6 Burning software(OEM version).  I have not been able to
do anything with this software.  What do I need to burn, convert files to be
burned to DVD(from hard drive), or just play a DVD ...

Recently i reloaded windows and once the setup was complete i found that my
old douments folder was still there but i can't access the folders for either
previous user names it tells me access denied.
Any help would be greatly apprecaited.

so heres my problem. this happened to me before just to let you know
when improperly shut down my computer, my computer starts to chok
after i turn it back on. by choke i mean, everything on screen woul
sort of freeze for like 1 second. like when i listen to music or watc

I've had problems with my system for a week now and it freezes during larger
tasks and reboots randomly. I thought it was my HD (so I got a new one) or my
cabling (replaced) or my motherboard (yet to be determined). But a friend
suggested it may be my RAM. So I took out the ...