I'm looking for a good and free HDD wipe utility I can run from its own boot CD. I'm donating a HDD and dont want and cant have the data on the drive after it leaves my hands. TIA.

was trying to copy data from a dvd to external usb when pc hung - i tried to cancel the copy but it was unresponsive - i removed the disc and it displayed an error saying no cd in drive so tried to cancel again but nothing so i selected restart from menu - error was still on screen when it shut down and external drive was still atached - pc tried to start up but display dropped back to a flashing...

I am having some trouble with my LG GSA-H62N Super Multi DVD Burner (SATA). It burns DVD's flawlessly, reads DVD and CD, but refuses to recognise a Blank CD-R disk (I've tried a number of different brands. I've updated firmware to CL01 to no avail. DVDINFO says it can read and WRITE CD-R's. Any ideas?. Could it be the SATA port - I also have 4 320gb Samsung SATA H/Drives. I've checked the...

I Recently put together a new cpu, using Vista Home Premium 64-Bit. But for some reason the system keeps randomly locking up in 10-20 min intervals that I have to restart the system every time. Also when I try to install Vista 64 bit SP1 at the end of installation it tells me there is an internal error. Is this simply a case of bad Ram or something more?? Here is the system specs. -AMD...

I can barely use my windows vista, since mostly it will freeze while doing random things... the screen almost looks hilighted and the mouse will do the loading animation with the circle thing... it then will let me move the mouse around and maybe click on one or m,ore thing, but basically itll sit there for hours if i let it... this happens randomly... sometimes itll happen right away when i...

I trust this is the group to ask -- if not, please do let me know where to try next. I have Windows XP, so I cannot answer this by examining my own machine. I am teaching an 80+ year old to use her computer. The intellectual part of the process she is quite good with, but has some fine motor problems in controlling her mouse . I think a trackball would be much better for her.

I have an HP laptop with Windows Vista, and I have no real complaints about it except this %^#*ing 'double tap' thing being double click. I can't stand it. I've accidentally clicked on countless things over the past two days (I just got this laptop). Yet I can find no way to edit it. Help? I'm about ready to chuck this thing out a window because it's so frustrating. I downloaded Synaptics,...

Hi I bought a laptop a few days ago and I install some application on it. I use internet download manager (IDM) to download things when I am downloading this bluescreen occur. My computer description:

First of all Sorry for my english ^^ If any of you have the time to help me it woud be great because here is the problem i have a Nvidia Gforce 5600 256mb (agp) and it just won't work proper under windows vista ultimate 32bit version. I tried alot of drivers even unofcial once(*23 versions of drivers*) and stil no luck to instal the card succecfull

Now that the final Vista drivers are out, I was surprised to find that the screensaver and power options still (e.g. Sleep) do not start at the time set. It was mentioned as an issue in the beta drivers but no word on this problem in the final version. The KB mentions it in relation to PowerDVD but since I don't have that software, it does not apply. Anyone else having this issue and / or...

hi i have the motherboard k8n diamond plus and i have raid 0 my question is will windows vista support the sil 3132 controller ? because it's a new operating system and to my opinion it's a mistake not support chipsets that are already in the market and as a user i must run to find a driver and to compromise no to have raid 0 it's in the rc1 version and i am worried about it

Am using release version of Vista Ultimate. It doesn't recognize my 1Gb USB memory stick or my Belkin 7 port USB hub. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Thanks in advance for your help - Paul.

I got a new computer about 3 weeks ago, and for the past 2, I get the STOP: 0x00000124 as few seconds after the computer freezes on me when I play the Sims 2 game, I notice sometimes right before I suspect the computer to crash when I play the game is that I hear a tone that one of my devices would shut off, and all of a sudden the computer goes really slow and then freezes and half the time, I...

I bought my new mouse last week (Verbatim, laser mouse for notebook). When i pluged to my notebook, it did not recognized with my window. I'm using window vista 64 sp2. I already installed a driver and reinstalled too, also try in another USB. That are stills can not make the window recognize my mouse. Please help me... Thx. -- Quietzzz

Hello, I have a asus motherboard which the realtek chip onboard. On the realtek site I found an installable driver, however the correspondig utility can not be installed : Also note that under XP the actual driver utility combination, is unusable to me sincer it does not support WPA2 with AES + TKIP. So hopefully someware there is a working beta.

The nVidia graphics driver (96.86) distributed with Vista 32 RTM works properly on my system. The driver released yesterday (97.46) as well as the "RC2" driver (96.85) which was on nVidia's web site until yesterday both fail when I resume from monitor "power-down." The power to the monitor is restored, but the screen shows nothing but a light blue color with thin white diagonal lines. It's...

Basically my DVD/CD drive will not boot. It says the drivers and are installed and the actual drive is working fine(checked by repairman) So I go into Device Manager and under DVD/CD-ROM drives it has.. FT6053C JRI645X SCSI CdRom Device PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K17 ATA Device and each has a little yellow exclamation mark infront, when clicked on it comes up saying.."Windows cannot load the device...

Hi, I'm installed Vista on my laptop (no driver for the smart battery, so Vista does not recognize it as a mobile PC). Anyway, I found out that after several times of hibernate and suspend, Ready Boost will suddenly stop working. When this happens, the Property box of the drive, the Ready Boost tab will be missing. Attempting to stop the Ready Boost service will make Ready Boost to be in...

I recently installed Vista Ultimate on my Dell Inspiron 9300 and have had only two problems. 1.)My headphone jack works but the speakers don't. 2.)Vista compatible Nvidia 6600 go driver. I have installed the sound drivers numerous times (vista and xp versions) but nothing seems to work. Is there something I'm missing to get my speakers working. I have also tried to use the dell diag cd but...

I'm looking at a Lite-On LH-20A1L-06 DVD SATA drive with Lightscribe... since I already have two internal SATA hard drives, I guess I'd have to buy another SATA card to utilize the SATA DVD drive. The drive specs only list SATA as the interface. I'd guess that probably means it's SATA gen 1 with 1.5Gb/s throughput. Is that a safe assumption to make or might Lightscribe technology require...