I installed a floppy drive on my computer running Vista. My bios is showing the drive but when I boot up into Vista, it's not showing the drive. I've installed it, removed it and did all of the tinkering I can think of including looking for drivers but it won't show the drive. Any suggestions?

I installed a floppy drive on my computer running Vista. My bios is showing the drive but when I boot up into Vista, it's not showing the drive. I've installed it, removed it and did all of the tinkering I can think of including looking for drivers but it won't show the drive. Any suggestions?

It appears that I've lost both of my DVDRW after installing VISTA 64-bit. I was using them up until a few days ago. It just shows as a "Removable Disk". This is the error message I get when I go to the DVDRW burner. Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft...

I put in a 3.5" 1.44M floppy and view it's directory (usually via a command line, but also with explorer). Now, eject the disk and put in another one. I get the same directory. This despite considerable activity by the drive (light goes on, head moves around). How do I get this thing to read the actual drive rather than what appears to be it's cached version?

i have a dvd burnere on my laptop it worked under xp but i upgraded to vista and now it doesnt work. i can still boot from it but it doesnt show up in my cumputer or in task manager. any suggestions (i have tried editing the upperfilter and lowerfilter registry values, and physically removing the drive an reinseritng it)

I recently bought a HVR-1600 and it does not work in Vista Home Premium Media Center. I try to set up TV and it says "Tuner not found". i have tried "To All With Vista TV Tuner Card Problems" and that didn't work. Please help! -thanks

hello got my new vista few days ago along with a mostly new setup. liking it all so far. only windows ive used really feels slick pity about the memory usage! anyways cant get any sound. Onboard sound card is working coz it crackles when u put the plugs in.

Well, my computer with 2 partitions with windows vista, wouldnt go further than the boot up screen, it would just frezze. So i would restart and it would keep on frezzing so i just turn it off and removed the memory cards. put them back .. but then i cant even see anything on the monitor i dont hear any beeps i hear the fans and open my computer the computer seems on. Now i dont know what i...

I have a Netdisk external hard drive with around 55 gigs of free space. In vista, I tried to copy over a 4 gig file to the external hard drive. It then gives me an error saying that the file is too large for the destination file system. I have over 55 gigs and when I tried to copy 4 gig worth of files on my other computer, which is running xp, it works fine. Somebody please help me.

Hi, I just installed the current RC over an Media edition pc, where everything was working fine. After that there is no sound and the message 'No output device is installed'. I've downloaded the creative 64-bit version of drivers and installed them. If i go into device manager it shows the sound card working correctly with drivers, but when I go into sounds from the control panel it notes...

I installed Vista 64 Ultimate on my PC about a month ago. Drivers were installed from the CD that came with the Intel D975Xbx2. Everything was just fine. A few days ago I checked Windows Updates and found "SigmaTel - Sound - SigmaTel High Definition CODEC" driver that was recommended (Publisher 3/21/2007). Naturally I thought "Well a WHQL drivers should work no problems... after all they were...

I am using a U.S.Robotics Wireless Adaptor to connect to my internet access point. The model of the Desktop PCI card is 805416. Ever since I have installed Windows Vista, it is not functioning. The U.S.Robotics site does not provide any driver for it and I keep receiving the message from Windows Vista that the driver cannot be installed and to contact the supplier of the...

HP on there website informed me that they have no intention of making a Vista driver for the 3400c Scanner and that I should purchase a new HP Scanner. After that I have no intentions of purchasing a HP scanner ever again. What scanners are available that are Vista ready?

I'm running Vista Premium on my notebook and it won't recognize my external HD in the Safely Remove Hardware icon. All my other external devices are recognized (i.e. camera memory card reader, flash drives, etc.). How can it be added to the Safely Remove icon, or how can I safely remove it without losing or damaging data?

I just bought a new laptop with Vista installed. I also purchased a webcam that will not run with vista, but works on my older machine (XP) Also, I cannot find patches for autocad or a number of my business applications. Are there legacy drives / patches for vista that will support older hardware / software? HELP!!!

I recently bought a pioneer 112 DL dvd burner and removed my old CDRW ,which was set to slave, as I have another DVD burner NEC already. I set up thenew one exactly the same, slave. But since installing, the NEC drive no longer refreshes and each time I click it to open it comes up with application error, followed by the box the box where you label your disc for backups (windows back up). I...

Hello, I have a problem with Windows Vista and my TPM chipset after a BIOS-upgrade. After the upgrade I cannot control the TPM chipset anymore. My program (Infineon Security Platform Settings Tool 3.0) tells me to activate the TPM chipset in the BIOS. I tried several times to do this, but for some reason the BIOS doesn't activate the chipset, it only enables it. When I tried accesing the...

It won't install anything. I can stick in a disc and I can view the contents of a disc, but it won't install anything from the disc. I also wasn't able to install Vista from this drive. It is an HP 640b and no Vista drivers will ever be available. Should I buy a new drive?

We have a Gateway MA3 with Turion 64 and originally equipped with XP bought Nov. '06. We received the Gateway Vista Express upgrade, 32-bit and installed it. Everything works fine except: 1.) Does not completely power down. If I choose the shut off, goes through all the correct steps then screen goes black/blank but the power button stays on and the lap top cannot be restarted unless...

Hello, since i upgraded to Vista i cannot use my DVD Burner. Under Device Manager it is a "SONY DVD RW DW-D22A ATA DEVICE" Any Help Please? Thanks.