I have a IDE to USB2.0 external optical drive and when I plug the USB into my Dell Vostro laptop, Vista Home Premium hangs until I unplug it. While it is hanging, I can not open any programs, install or remove any drivers, etc. As soon as I unplug it everything returns to normal. I have tested the hardware on an XP system and it works just fine. I have also tried a different optical...

My D Drive shows that 0% memory available. Calling a recovery D Drive? 173 mb of 9.99 GB available. Tried disk clean up, defrag. no help. What now? -- VLS

Anyone have any success in communicating with Link Station Pro purchased pre-Vista? Buffalo site is thin on help for upgrading to Vista. Thanks!

Hi I get sound on my Toshiba Satellite through headphones but not speakers. Can anyone advise please.

Hi, I have just installed auto updates on both my tower and laptop, XP and Vista repectively. My wifes IPOD Shuffle is now not recognised by either computer. I have uninstalled and reinstalled I-Tunes with nio change. Has anyone got back to you with a solution ?? I hope there is an easy solution!!!??? "Mithun" wrote: Hey, I justed installed my copy of vista (clean install). Vista doesn't...

Hi, I have a Sony Mini DV DCR-HC44 video camera. Worked fine with XP using a Firewire to upload my video. Since installing Windows Vista will not work. Have used MM to acquire capture but says can not find camera, firewire card all installed and said to be working fine. Did once get the card to start capturing once but then halted and froze up after a few seconds, since then can not...

Hi I have Windows Vista Business and a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ19VN. I have an inbuilt webcam (motion eye). The webcam works - it automatically comes up when I do skype calls. My question is whether I can use the camera for video recordings that I do independently from skype and how to access my camera.

my dvd drive has also gone missing on my vista home 32, im sure its the same type of problem that most people are suffering, worked fine, installed itunes hooked up ipod, download daemon tools etc, then it stopped being recognized, not sure when exactly it all went wrong, but the drive still opens spins does all that but just wont show up in disk mangement, device manager or my computer. I used...

ok so i will try again and try and get a response. i have 3 portable hard drives: a WD My Book a Vantec and a Noontec all 3 are Sata to USB drives. everytime i install one i get a:

On my Vista system there is an icon for HP Scanjet Scanners. I do not have any HP scanner as I use the scan capability from my Samsung SCX4725 FN scanner. My question is how do I remove this icon from the Vista control panel. In the Windows System32 folder there are some files referencing this HP hardware. Any ideas and directions for removal appreciated.

i am using an aliph jawbone with vista voice recognition and am getting poor results. Are there recommended bluetooth headsets for vista voice recogntion? Also I have tried with using Dragon v9 same headset and with the tablets built in bluetooth, again less good results than my old XP tablet + DNS9 and an external bluetooth adaptor. Are there better combo's of adapter and headset, info on...

Hi All... There was a "Laser Printer" driver in one of the Windows Updates and it was compatible with the printer I have. Now, that I had to re-install windows because of the new HD's I can't get that update anymore. Does anyone know which security update had a driver called "Laser Printer" listed?

for some reason vista think my non removable drives are removable? was working fine then for some reason it just started to see them as removable hardware and i have the "safely remove hardware" icon in the task bar for both my C and D drive. may have started after a windows update! i used the safely remove icon for the D drive and it became unusable till after a reboot...

My external hard drive, Western Digital, is making a strange sound whenever I plug it to the computer. It goes like "click, click, click" and then it stops. It sounds like it tries to boot up but it couldn't. The drive doesn't show up in my computer but shows up in device manager. Is there any way that I can access the hard drive or get my files back? Thank you. -- dellbox

When i download a photo/wmv etc it automaticaly goes into "windows photo gallery " even when i download it to my private folder !! If i delete it from "windows photo gallery " it is deleted from every where ! How can i stop photos downloading to folders i dont download them to ? ie "windows photo Gallery

I Installed software & conected Mouse transmiter to computer which has vista on it and the screen saver won't work pull the transmiter out and the screen saver works. Has anyone had this problem if so did you get it fixed. -- Mike

Hi, I am running Vista Home Premium. I had been running 2 Western Digital 500GB drives in RAID 0 mode. The external enclosure was a Fantom enclosure. The controller was going bad, so I bought a Xtrastor 3.5 x2 HDD enclosure which supports RAID 1. Anyhow, when I hook it up via USB, it only detects an 8GB drive. Once

I have an HP Pavillion m8020n desktop with Vista Home Premium. After trying to resolve a number of minor problems HP convinced me to upgrade to SP1. After running for many hours the install failed. After that failure I started getting prompted to install many different hardware drivers including my HP Media Drive, Ieee controller etc. I bypassed these and evything seemed to work so the next...

keep crashing, windows tells me tpm is problem, have norton and trying to use firefox browser

Recently upgraded to Windows Ultimate and want to use tape backup for selected data backup (20 GB per tape). Since Vista does not support SCSI Tape Backup, I did some more research and decided to install ntbackup. After installing, the backup software sees the tape drive and interacts with it, i.e. I can run the diagnostic tests and all steps are given a passing grade. However, when I try to...