I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition. I messed up and deleted the drives volume. Now it is not listed in disk management. I looked everywhere to get it back and can't figure it out. How do I make Vista recognize this drive again so I can partition and format it? -- Walt

hi. i m having hp pavilion laptop. its abt. 6 months old i had connected a usb 2.0 hub to a usb port on my laptop till abt. a month back it was working fine one day i got a blue screen saying dumping physical memory and the error was something usb debugging. 4 some time my usb did not function. then it strtd to function again. after some times i connected usb 1.1 hub to it

My system was working perfectly, but I disconnected and removed my HDDs to clean them and then re-installed them. I have an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe motherboard. The last time I installed Windows Vista on my system it went to my new SATA HDD installed through the SATA1_RAID socket on the motherboard and not to my primary IDE harddrive. After I re-installed all my HDDs, the system boots correctly,...

Hello, I have been having problems with my CD/DVD RW drive randomly disappearing since January. The odd thing is that it's not always gone. For instance, I just burned a CD, yet within an hour I expect my CD/DVD RW drive to disappear both from "Computer" and the Device Manager. The only time the drive works consistently is immediately after a restart. If I am playing a DVD at the time the...

I am continually getting the following BSOD message Problem is listed as "Problem signatu Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 2057 Additional information about the problem:

Hi All, I am trying to install my UPS in Vista Ultimate. It connects to the com port to monitor the power and configure shut down options. .. In XP I could configure it in Control Panel/Power options. I've searched Vista and can't find where to configure it. Any suggestions welcome.

I was able to install Nikon Scan 4.0.3 to my Vista computer to allow me to scan slides with the Nikon CoolScan V, but could not install its drivers. It initially appeared that the problem was with the Nikon Scan installation program. However, I got message like "Windows could not load the installer for image" and "The classinstaller registry value is invalid". It turned out that to install a...

Hi everyone, I will try to be as brief as possible with this but I want to make sure I explain all the details as I am stuck and not knowing what to do at about 8 PM when tomorrow is a workday :(. Anyways... Windows Platform: 32xVista, Comp: HP 6700 ; To start off, I was an idiot and was installing some program a friend had given to me and it required "New SID" from Microsoft and I did brief...

Previous versions of Windows provided a list of Midi devices usually under a tab in the control panel under "Sound settings and devices" or something similar - where do I assign a different Midi device to say, the Media Player in Vista? Thanks, Tony

Hi guys.. I'm just wondering if anyone has any ideas on the following . I removed my ide burner to use in my other computer and purchased a new sony sata dvd burner. Installed burner and bios as well as Vista recognized the drive but whenever i inserted a disk(cd or dvd) explorer crashed. Tried everything even the microsoft fixes. I returned drive this morning and got a sata Asus drive ....

I don't know why, but whenever I'm on the computer, a message saying, "Exception processing message 0xc0000013 Paramters 0x75fc92a0 0x00000004 0x75fc92a0 0x75fc92a0" keeps poping out. Can somone please tell me why it keeps doing that and how I can fix this problem? -- yixphil

hi. i m having hp pavilion laptop. its abt. 6 months old i had connected a usb 2.0 hub to a usb port on my laptop till abt. a month back it was working fine one day i got a blue screen saying dumping physical memory and the error was something usb debugging. 4 some time my usb did not function. then it strtd to function again. after some times i connected usb 1.1 hub to it

hi. i m having hp pavilion laptop. its abt. 6 months old i had connected a usb 2.0 hub to a usb port on my laptop till abt. a month back it was working fine one day i got a blue screen saying dumping physical memory and the error was something usb debugging. 4 some time my usb did not function. then it strtd to function again. after some times i connected usb 1.1 hub to it

The remote is a linux server running pppd with LCP enabled. On the Win7 side, the 56k modem would disconnect in just a few minutes, rendering the ppp connection un-usable. Is it a known issue? BTW, is there a group discussing about Win 7 beta? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY.

I recently installed a bluetooth dongle on my Asus X83vb. The computer has a button dedicated to controlling an internal bluetooth device (which is not installed on this computer). Is there a way, such as a registry edit, to use this button on the computer to control the new bluetooth dongle? -- miked7928

Stupid computers, ha Here's my problem, have tried just about everything, having trouble with hdaudio driver. cannot install manually, cannot install via win update, see pic, all files will not install and error. Tried installing uaa, tried drivers from hp and microsoft. Nothing works, but the thing is my audio works fine. I could care less about

Hello can anyone tell me what driver to use for the Samsung ML-1610 printer for Vista. The one on Samsungs website does not work :-) Many thanks,

I have noticed several others with this same problem, but there doesnt seem to be a well defined solution that I have found yet. Here is my problem: I have a 2GB sd card (San Disk). The card works fine in my Palm TX as well as on Windows XP machines and shows up as having 2GB of storage. However, the card does not show up when I try to use it with my Laptop which runs Vista Home Premium. ...

Looking For drivers for digital camera compatable with vista

I have a Vista Ultimate 64 bit system using an ASUS striker II formula MB, Intel core 2 quad 2.66 mh CPU, 8 GB RAM. It was setup with 2 320 GB Seagate drives and a 500 GB Seagate drive in a RAID. A week and a half ago when shutting down the system, I got the install updates message. I clicked OK. Upon return, I found the system still running showing the BIOS screen. After reboot, I had a no...