I am really having trouble replacing my old hard drive with a new one. I've gotten as far as getting the left side panel off but I can't figure out how to push the drive out through the front without breaking the plastic cover. Any help is appreciated!

Hi, I have a 2nd hard disk which I use as a data drive. After my computer crashed windows no longer shows the 2nd drive but it is shown in BIOS. I have system restore disabled. I have tried scanreg/restore with no luck.

I get the above msg when I try to start up my pc, then "Disk boot failure, insert system disk & press enter" I don;t have a system disk so what do I do?

Hi, I have just installed a Multi Ports PCI to USB 1.1/2.0 card on my sister's comp. She has Windows ME but I can't find the driver for it. The card doesn't have any drivers with it. The box does say that I can get my driver from Windows ME. Can anyone tell me where I can locate the driver from....

I have a hard drive that had Windows ME on it. I think it got a virus on it and now it won't boot. I've put it in another computer and the computer recognizes the hard drive, but it says I/O Disk Error when it tries to boot from it. I really need to get some files off of this drive. Is there...

I've this integrated internal Winmodem , does it work in a Fax connection ? Many thanks.

Hello again, I have a question that is likely not going to be answered even if I took the time to figure out the manuals that came with my recently acquired PowerQuest Partition Magic's software Version 8.x I have an older, clone, motherboard (I'm a VAR, you see), that due to it's internal...

I have 5 different motherboards and about 10 RAM Chips what's the easiest way to test them to see if thier any good? Thanks Beau

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...

For some strange reason my computer properties is only recognizing 128 megs of ram. I put 2 seperate 128 sticks in individually and it recogizes both of them but when I put them in together it still says there's only 128 megs. My Bios sees them but my computer properties doesn't. I even bought a...

When booting Machine loaded with Windows ME. The machine starts up with the scan disk awaiting to be run. When i try to run scan disk it has over 1,000,000 clusters to scan. How can i stop scan disk from appearing at start up?

You appear to have made the same post now at least five times in the last twelve hours or so and each time I or someone else has posted a reply. All _you_ need to do is to read those replies. something you appear to be incapable of doing. The same goes for what you call the Microsoft forums,...

I have WinME on a Sony laptop. A net telephony s/w (Skype) meant for Win2000 & XP was accidentally installed on the laptop this morning, with the option 'start skype on PC startup' checked. It appears that the PC hangs whilst attempting to start skype. Is there a way out of this? Many thanks in...

I posted this question over in "general," but then it occurred to me it's probably really a hardware question, so I've posted it here as well. Any ideas on why my DVD drive (functionally my CD drive) isn't visible in Safe Mode? It appears in the BIOS setup screens, and is properly identified...

I have a Gateway PC (Over 3 years old), pre-loaded with ME. For the past 3 years have had AOL as my ISP. Have decided to go to DSL provider SBC and need help. The software that SBC sent said I needed an Ethernet PCI card. Went to the store, bought one and hubby installed it. Ran the...

If windows folder is causeing the problem when starting it goes to safe mode in ME, how do I check it out and fix the problem. I read this might be the problem from another person asking about what causes it to start in safe mode.

Hi, I bought a laptop that came pre-installed with windows XP, however I own a full copy of Windows ME on cd, and wanted to use it instead. Does Windows ME support: Firewire 400 PC Cards (PCMCIA) Wireless networking (a pcmcia card of the 11b standard) DVD-RAM drives (the kind that can burn...

My external HD for my Dell Inspiron 8100 used to show up as my E: drive but for whatever reason has suddenly stopped. I've done some stuff (system restore, disconnection, etc. but my computer says a specific .pdr file is missing. Yet when I look in the folder where the driver is, the .pdr file is...

When I plug in a new wireless card the adding new hardware window opens updateing new hardware database.0% then nothing. cntrl-alt-del hardware install not responding. Same thing happened when I added usb gateway.eventually worked but took hours but however the wireless card will not install by...

After shutting my computer down for a few hours today and rebooting, my cd-rom drive would not work so I looked in My Computer and it is not showing up. I tried rebooting several times and watching as things loaded and the drive never showed up. As a matter of fact I thought the hard drive wasn't...