Geez, have I got a lot to learn! :) That's one reason I enjoy newsgroups. I have never used a flash drive, though I have seen them over at Fry's. I think I'd like to try one for primitive backup purposes and portability's sake. They're certainly cheap enough, and I do have USB 2.0 now. I...

Ok recently weve had a virus and after speedily ridding ourselves of it one of our drives has started reading as 0 MB free. Now im sure this is not the case as we definitley do not have 128 GB of stuff on that drive, so can anyone lend me a hand?

After having my computer shut down for 2 days while I was out of town there is a loud roar coming from the cpu. What should I look at first to track this down? I'm afraid something is about to crash, so I backed up some important data files already, but this noise is driving me crazy. Dell...

A friend's laptop recently went faulty so he decided, as it's 7 years old, to treat himself to a new one. However, he needs a couple of things off the old one if at all possible, so he brought it to me. It boots, completes the POST OK and then shows the Windows ME splash screen - but gets no...

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The first issue is will your motherboard's BIOS support drives larger than 137Gb? That was the limit until recently. If your BIOS will see it then for ME to see it you will have to run FDISK and break it into pieces - the 137Gb still will be a limiting factor if you want to see it as one piece. I...

I switched on my computer this morning and used it for a while. The power unit fan normally starts on boot up. When I went back to the computer after doing something else the computer was completely dead (the fan was dead also). I opened up the power unit and cleaned all the muck out of the...

Hi guys, I have a desktop pc (running windows ME) connected to a laptop via an ethernet cable. The Laptop has a broadband connection and I am running internet connection sharing. My question is, will WinME hang if it can not renew its address from the DHCP server, on the laptop? Will any NIC...

Every tine I start the computer I get the following message "Unexpected internal c-tree #7490 I close it and do not seem to have any problems with programs. Any idea on how to fix this? Thanks

I have Windows ME on an HP laptop with its own hard drive. I have tried to attach 2 USB mass storage devices. One is a hard drive enclosure with a 3.5" (desktop) hard drive & the other is a hard drive enclosure with a 2.5" (laptop) drive. When I plug the 2.5" enclosure in and boot the computer, it...

Tried to boot but got this message: the following file is missing or corrupted : c:\windows\system\vmm32.vxd . Type the name of the windows loader..... Found article 258471 on Microsoft help but it only indicated what the problem was but did not give detail steps to solve. Help! Jerry

Hi I am trying to install a Dlink wireless card onto my Toshiba Satelite 2800 laptop running windows ME. When I have the card installed and connected and turn on the laptop, everything seems to be hanging and non repsponsive. As soon as a take the card out and reboot the laptop without the card,...

I have been having a lot of problems w/ ME lately. My control panel takes a really long time to load and when I click internet options there is a pop up that says rundll32.exe is not found and internet options does not work. I've also had other pop ups lately when I turn my computer on and off. ...

When installing programs, I get the message cannot finish the install because there is no RPC Stub. what does this mean and how do I correct it?

Hi.. Have a Hewlett Packard Omnibook XE2.(second hand)... the desktop has a large black border round and is also stuck in 16 bit colour mode. (no option to change in settings)... does anybody Know how to fix please? Thanks Kim Running ME pentium 3 128 ram

Hi Noel... :-) As you know, I'm trying to do a dual boot setup on my machine with W2K and ME. I installed a new hard drive, which I set up as the new C:\ drive with Win 2K, and the old hard drive with Win ME is not the F:\ drive. For some reason, I can't get the machine to recognize or load the...

it seems that ME does not want to recognize my digital camera card reader. i have and amd processor, 256 ram. when i plug in the usb it does recognize that, but it asks me to insert a card into the slot, which i have done, both before and after it has asked me to do that and i get the same...

Hi, I installed a new modem which is plug and play. I also installed the ME driver for this modem. Windows ME does not recognize it. I have universal plug and play setup. Does anybody have any ideas how to recognize the plug and play devices. I also tried a NIC pci card and it doesn't get...

I am trying to hook up a new Palm Pilot to my PC. When I try to Hotsync the PDA, the system recognizes the new hardware and freezes during the install. A tech friend told me to install a PCI to USB card. Her idea being that the motherboard was being drained of power (older computer) and the new...

I want to combind my two raptor X hard drives and have a multi boot between Windows Me, XP, and Vista. How would you set up raid in Me?