Please can someone help with this???????? I'm having the same problem, however, Device manager will not even find them!! They were working perfect in RC1 until about a week ago, then they just disappeared?? I even thought about going back to XP, but cant find any means of uninstalling RC1 and with no drives, cant just re-install over the top. There is no way I'm going down the Daemon tools/...

Hi folks, I've got an Sony VGN-BX197XP laptop that I've upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate. Since then I've encountered some strange display-related issues: 1) I could only boot into Aero about 50% of the time. The rest of the time I forced onto the Standard theme with no Aero option. Since installing Vista SP1 I can't get Aero at all. 2) When not running in Aero mode I can't get the...

I had a chance to connect this same eSATA drive to another Premium Vista system. It acts the same way: Vista doesn't see it unless the bios saw it upon boot. Besides for Will, has anyone tried bringing an eSATA drive online after Vista is booted? As I mentioned, XP Pro handled it perfectly. Thanks, Norm

Running Vista Premium Home on a 500 GB hard drive shows 80 GB used in properties pie chart. I configured win explorer to not hide system files, actually see hidden & system files in directories. If I get properties of the root & all folders, their sum is about 18 GB. How can I account for the 4X overhead shown in the pie chart? Why does the sum of the folders disagree so much with the pie...

Ok, I just partitioned my second HD with Vista x86 into 3 Primary partitions. Now, I get errors with partition programs saying the sizes are incorrect. Before I "Fix" these errors, has something changed in the way Vista allocates space with the partition tables on drives?

This just started today. I am running Windows Vista Ultimate x64, and here are my specs: ASUS A8V-XE Socket 939 VIA K8T890 Motherboard AMD X2 4600+ cpu 939 pin 2 x 1GB DDRAM PC3200 2 x 200 Maxtor EIDE ATA/133 Hard Drives ASUS x1600 ATI PCI-e 512mb video Creative Labs X-FI Platinum ATI TV Wonder Elite (using 550 chip)

Please help!!! When I try to backup computer using Backup and Restore, I get the message that "Windows cannot find backup devices on your computer. The requested system device cannot be found." However, I can see my backup drive in Internet Explorer, can open it, and can copy files to it. I also can back up files to it using the Backup and Restore. Why does my computer find my backup drive...

Hello all. Having a little trouble that I hope you can help with. The problem is that Vista bluescreens with an "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" Stop error code 0x0000000A. The problem is definitely something to do with the RAM, though it is not a faulty board. The system boots successfully with three out of the four 1GB RAM boards installed, though inserting any fourth RAM board causes the above...

Environment AMD 64 2.8g FX Dual ASUS M2N-E- SLI 4 GIG RAM HD1 (SATA) Western Dig. Raptor - 140 gig. 2 other HDs on pATA Dual Boot on the same HD1: Vista SP1 - HD1 (rougly 95 gig)

SECOND POST: Hoping for an answer... All worked well until I upgraded to the EVGA 9500GT 512 mb Nvidia card and latest nvida drivers. No problems with card or software install (other than a quick message about hibernation not working or something similar). All power options checked and rechecked and also advanced power settings checked and rechecked. Have re-installed monitor and updated...

I've been running XP Pro for years, 3 SATA hard drives in the case & 1 external SATA drive (FAT32). With XP, I could turn on the eSATA drive (always connected) anytime & it is automatically detected. With Vista Ultimate, if the eSATA drive was OFF at boot time, turning it on, once fully booted, does not detect the 4th drive. Disk Management (local) doesn't see the 4th drive either. If I turn...

How many of you think that we should have to go through the registry editor process every time we need to use our CD/DVD drives? I'm having to do it every 2 or 3 days. I dream of the days when I was using XP and autorun would actually work on my computer and I could actually burn and read CD's without jumping through all these hoops. I am a very dissatisfied with my new computer, and I...

I have a clean install of Vista Home Premium 64bit version that doesn't seem to recognize anything in my PCI slots. I'm trying to install a Soundblaster x-fi extreme, and a theatre 550 pro tv card. For the tv card, after install of downloaded drivers for Vista 64, I get no further than media center stating no tv device detected. For the sound card... under manage audia devices, no audio...

If the V3 supports bluetooth, it's definitely the way to go. My V551 doesn't need any extra software, I just bluetooth to and from... just like it's a wireless external drive. All you'd need is a cheap ($14 or so) dongle. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "fenrisform" wrote in message

I Have Windows Vista, And I have not found a way to burn Cd's to MP3 format. I CAN burn standard format, however. I have ripped CD's to MP3 format, so I should think that when I burn a disc that was ripped to MP3 format it would burn it to disc in the same format, but it doesn't. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Hi Puppy Breath, You are right, I need to learn basic skills in windows. I just don't know where to aquire them!! I tried to leave the media player out of the picture and went into my music files. But when I tried to drag them into explorer, the computer went right into the media player, and burned a standard disc!! Windows Vista sucks!! Maybe I wasn't in explorer, I don't know!! ...

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 and I have this little issue... I keep all the "My Documents" type stuff in my external Firewire/USB hard drive, and ever since I've relied on this drive exclusively for my sole source of all this data, I've been saddled with problems. The drive works FINE under Windows XP on this same exact configuration computer I'm using now, using both USB and...

Was going to get a SimpleTech Simplestore but tech support says unit not compatible with Vista (it's a Linux/Samba thing) and my never be. Any recommendation for a similar priced home unit appreciated. Carl

My Vista PC read and writes to the system drive C: every second the entire time Vista is loaded. This didn't happen with XP. What is making these regular disk reads and writes?

Yesterday I installed the Pre- RC 1 on my computer, and after the instalation, the 'Aero Glass' was enabled. But when I got to my Performance Rating (wich was 2.3) and clicked 'Update my Rating', the Aero-feature disabled, and my rating didn't change at all? What happened? Can this be enabled again? (By the way: when I tryed to get in the 'Visual Appearence' menu, it was also disabled, I...