How do I upgrade the hd on my computer to a hd larger than 160gb. I'm looking at getting a HD thats 160gb, but on the box it says if your using win me you need to download a win 2000 patch 3 but I have'nt been able to find it. Can I partition it to where me can see the HD?

I'm about to Start upgrading my PC which currently runs on WinME. The first thing that needs attention is the hard drive which is noisier and less reliable than it once was. How do i go about replacing all of the information from one hard drive to the next? Is it as simple as copying from one...

Is there a way to upgrade USB 1 to USB 2? Any software that can do that?

I have been told that I need to upgrade my USB in order to use my new printer to its full capacity - does anyone have any ideas as to whether this can be dowloaded or do I have to buy some hardware to install

I bought a usb 2.0 2 port pci card. After I installed it, Windows wanted me to insert the Win-ME disk to find some usb drivers. I bought the system with windows preinstalled and all I have are some system recovery disks (which require complete reformatting). I don't have an ME disk. What should I...

-- Hi Group, My computer has a problem whereby when I plug in my printer or any other device it stalls at "updating hardware information". I reinstalled ("overinstalled" as I don't have the motherboard drivers disks - only a recover disc which doesn't help if I had reformatted the disc) Windows...

I'm having trouble connecting to aol. I get a message saying "AOL will now install the files for you to connect to the service..." Then I get another message saying "Please wait while windows updates the hardware information database" and nothing happens. I hit alt + cntrl + delete and i get...

Can somebody please help. Everytime I try to add a protocol the updating hardware information database window pops up and locks up my computer. Can't connect my AOL because of this. Can someone tell me how to disable this? I appreciate your help!

I have tried to install a scanner, download files from a compact flash installed in a Canon camera and tonight to install a card reader // each time, Windows has gone into a loop and the only way out is either CTL-ALT-DEL or worse shut down and restart. This is a bit of a pain, especially since I...

Whenever I try to add a new piece of hardware to my dell inspiron 7500, like a pcmcia modem card, the "update hardware" window freezes. I've tried putting in the original Windows ME CD-ROM to fix the error but it doesn't work. Help! Thanks, Mark

Can anyone help me? in device manager I try to update drivers,it starts checking,then stops. I use ctrl,alt,del. and it tells me update drver is not responding. What can I do to get it working??? I have ME

Hi to all, I am about to upgrade my RDRAM on my Dell dimension 8100 from 2x128 to 2x256. I understand how to remove those and replace. I would like to make sure I do the right thing. I read it somewhere I have to flash up BIOS after replacing RDRAM modules. I down loaded "Flash up BIOS" FROM...

I now no longer get the unplug USB device window when I attach a USB storage device to my computer (camera/flashdrive). It used to work and seems to have gone since I suffered a virus attack. I can not find any way of launching the dialog box in the control panel either.

I have been trying to upgrade from ME to 2000, but found that I could not. I am now needing to uninstall ME and install 2000. I know I will need to format with NTFS, but do not know how to reformat my hardrive to do so. Can someone help?

I need to uninstall windows me and return to windows 98. however i didn't not save the option to return to 98. i don' t want to format the hard drive as i'll lose loads of preinstalled programs on my laptop. any ideas? Can i delete the windows folder, make the computer crash and then restart with...

quite often, when i am on aol...the mouse becomes extremely hard to control. does anyone else have this problem and how do you fix it?

Hello! I'm getting a BSOD with message unable to write to disk in drive C Any tips on what I should do? thanks

I tried installing a SIIG USB2 PCI card in my relatives Gateway PC running Windows ME. After installing the card in the PC and during the boot process an error message is displayed saying something like "unable to start cmdinst...". After "OKing" out of that, the system then detects new hardware...

I have WinMe. I have all of the necessary tabs checked in the Power Management tab, (control panel). I even have "deep sleep" checked in System ToolsSystem Configuration Utility (Is that a problem?). I am running Zonealarm, Avg, Qwik-Fix Pro, Giant Anti-Spyware, Adwatch and Pestpatrol MemCheck...

Mart, Thanks for the link to the knowledge base. Checked it, nothing of use. I "end tasked" all of the programs running at startup one by one but still unable to detect the problem, however, when left with System Tray, and Explorer, I am able to hibernate. When returning from hibernation, I...