-- I just purchased a new pc with VISTA. I have just about everything installed and tweeked except for two things that are really bothering me. One..Something is constantly accessing my external usb hard drive. Two-Something is constantly accessing my interal hard drive. Is there something I can disable, especially for the external drive.

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Hi, i have problem when i try to install windows xp. i have laptop hp parvilion dx6650us entertainment notbook pc, vista install on it but i want to install windows xp. when windows xp boot i got this message. Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related...

Every time i turn on my Compaq Presario F500 laptop alls i get is "Operating System Not Found" I have tried using the Vista Recovery Disc and it comes up with "Windows is loading files" Then i choose the language and everything to install it in and click next then click install now. Then it asks me to insert the product key and after i do that a pop up comes up saying:

I had a 320 Gig Vista as master drive. This drive started to give me grief. I installed a 1TB drive with one 250G partition and was able to install Vista on it. As it is, I can boot eitehr one by halting Bios and changing the boot drive there (a rather cumbersome means). I want to get files off the older 320G drive, but I can't get past "USERS" folder. Vista 1Tb green progress bar runs...

That about sums it up. It's a brand new HP HDX laptop running Vista32. It's setup with HDMI to our flat-panel TV and we have a Turtle Beach Audio Advantage-Micro usb card so we can use the digital audio passthrough to get the 5-1 dolby sound to the surround sound receiver. It all works as it should, no problem. If we turn it off and back on it's fine. But if we put it in sleep or hibernate...

I have an HP530 notebook with standard features and 2GB RAM, bought in May 2008. The system comes with a bulit in Windows Vista Home edition. For past few months the system has a painfully slow shutdown, in which has taken from 30 minutes to 9 hours to shutdown after i pressed the shutdown button on the start menu. But lately, since last few weeks, upon pressing shutdown, the system gets in...

I am getting this error in my browser on regular basis almost ever hour Error 104 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_FAILED): The attempt to connect to the server failed. after which I am unable to access internet from any of the web browsers in my PC (IE, Firefox and Chrome). Its surprising that i am still logged on on msn and skype and keep chatting, yahoo messenger does not work, Outlook continues to...

I upgraded from XP to vista and before doing so backed up all files to a usb seagate free agent hard drive. I have installed vista and the drive works and I can read files but when i try to copy files back to an internal back up drive the system some times copies smaller sized files but generally freezes when copying music albums. All I can do to get the darn machine to go again is to...

I can't restart or shutdown my Vista 64 when I use diNovo Edge bluetooth keyboard by Logitech. I will get BSOD stop error on USBHUB.SYS. This is the only device that will cause this because uninstalling the keyboard my system goes back to stable. Here is the error: Problem signatu Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1

I just installed vista business on a toshiba satellite A75 and the battery wont charge all the time. its picks and chooses its moments on when to charge. i know the battery, mobo, and power adapter are all in perfect condition. everything in XP pro worked great as well. when the system is off the battery charges, when the system is on only sometimes it will charge or it will just run off battery...

Hi, I have Installed Windows Vista Ultimate Edition in my System... my Mother board model is Intel® Desktop Board D845GVSR. After Vista Installation I couldn't change my Screen resolution.. I tried to Upadate the VGA Driver.. and Still doesn't worked out ! Have any Suggestions ??

hi. i'm running vista home premium 32bit on p4 3.06 ghz, 2 gb ram and msi rx2400pro 256mb which i just bought recently. whenever i want to run games, my monitor flicks and a ballon tips appears. it says "display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has successfully recovered". and after 3-4 times flickering, the whole system go hang, and i have to restart. i also can't run windows...

Can anyone out there help me? I have a Canon MP370 which worked perfectly well on XP - i have just bought a new computer with Vista as the OS and i cannot get the printer to successfully install. I have downlaoded the drivers off Canon and get so far but then am told that they cannot trace a 'printer port' Am completely stumped and would be grateful for some help.

my dvd drive on my laptop wont recognise any blank discs. when i insert a blank disc it just keeps spinning and i cant even use it with any burning programs. there is nothing wrong with the discs because they work with my other laptop. i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver but it still wont work. i have tried to look for the upperfilters and lowerfilters in the regedit but...

I have an Advent 7201 I lost the Optiarc drive I fixed this but any music or video is played at a very high pitch and is very squeaky any ideas ? Thanks -- Shaz

I tried that but the arrows are greyed out on the speed settings play speed is set as 1.000 -- Shaz

I have an radeon 1600 hdmi connected to a panasonic lcd hd tv 32" Running Vista home premium 64bit on core 2 duo with 2gb ram viewing movies, media center and picures, all is well, but when i am on the desktop, the words and lines are very fuzzy and difficult to read! I have contacted ati and got the runaround re installing the catalyst sofware etc.

I have an Intel MB d946gzis whith a Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codecd ver 6.10.5405.0, it worked initially not the speaker in the bottom right says, "no audio output device installed" I have uninstalled it, and re booted, it re installs but not success. BTW i'm running Vista Business on core 2 duo 1.66 mhz w/2gb kingston memory. Where do I go from her, the Sound used to work quite...

I am trying to copy video from the video camera to my computer, on my last laptop (it had XP Professional Service Pack 2) everything worked fine, but now with Vista, in Windows movie maker I get an error that says "Import video could not find a compatible digital video device." I have checked the connects and made sure the camera is in proper mode, but still nothing is detected. Is there some way...