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My LG GSA-H50-L DVD writer has worked in the past on my Vista 64bit system, but has now decided not to work. I didn't do anything with the harware. The power is still connected, and if I disable all the drivers, vista recognizes the ATA device and attempts to install the drivers. At that point, it says it fails, and in device manager, it reports that it doesn't work because the drivers are missing or corrupted. No software comes with the drive b/c I thought it uses generic drivers. Is there somewhere I can download these generic drivers so that it can install them next time?

Hello, When I statup up sometimes everything starts and loads fine but sometimes (6/10 times) not everythign loads. The only things which load are Quicktime, Norton and the LAN symbol and in addition to that Yahoo! messenger, Windows defender and the little symbol for my graphics card hsould load but like I said they usually don't. Does anyone else think there is something fishy here? Cheers

I've just upgraded my internet security,and as part of process had to download a new version of windows installer KB893808-V2-X86.EXE. Now when I start up, windows installer tries to install "Document Viewer" then I am requested to insert CD-ROM, I do not have this. I then cancel and error 1706 appears "no valid source could be found for product Document Viewer. The windows installer cannot continue". When I close this message, another message box appears Microsoft .NET Framework "An unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application. Click continue and application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. Object reference …

When I try to start up my computer, I get the Dell Logo but after that all I get is the message 'Invalid system disk replace the disk and then press any key. I'm not able to start the computer in the 'Safe' mode or restore it. I've put in the ME Operating CD but that hasn't done any good. There's no CDs in either drive and the floppy drive is empty as well. Does anybody know how to start the computer up? I could really use the help. thanks. -- kk

hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig and nothing else. ANyone know why

Does anyone have any suggestions on the size of HDD for XP to be recognized in FAT32 format? I get an old HDD 40 GB, under FAT32 format for XP, can 40 GB still be recognized in size? Thank you any suggestions Eric

Ok, I have to somehow create a link on a users desktop which links out to a portal. The app has to take some input from the user, create the link with an icon. So far I bet you're thinking an exe or simple install project... easier said than done, the website where this thing gets downloaded or run needs to pass an argument to the exe or installer, which will end up being a parameter in said link.... I thought .. ActiveX, however that's a technology that is being phased out and would prefer to avoid using it, not to mention trust issues... If anyone has done anything like this drop me a hint. I have a few ideas thus far but Im wondering if theres a better way t…

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to install .NET framework 2.0 or greater for XP? I have downloaded the tools seaTools under Seagate.com to check any bad sector for HDD. Once I install it, it requests for installing .NET framework, and I get no idea on how to get it. Does anyone have any suggestions? On the other hands, does XP have any tools to check bad sectors for HDD? Thank you for any suggestions Eric

I have a terminal server which is 2003. From yesterday, sometimes users can remote desktop to this server but most time they fail. Network looks running well. I can access shared folder on the terminal server. I don't see any error in Event Viewer. Anyone can help me on this? Thanks a lot

Using the net use command within a domain to access a remote XP SP2 client not being a member of any domain. Trying to access an administrative drive with the command: net use z: \\computer\d$ i get the following error msg: Invalid password for computer\d$ (even if I have the right admin password) Why does it ask for computer\GUEST account password ? GUEST account is disable and dont want to use it anyway. What did I miss ? TIA

I have problem with SP2 that failed on initial installation and currently cannot be reinstalled or uninstalled. I have tried all steps in KB822798 with no success. This is the end of the uninstall log-spuninst.log: 88.015: PFE1: Failed to CreateRemoteThread; error=0x8 88.015: PFE2: PFE1 failed. 88.015: PFE2: Not avoiding Per File Exceptions. 1013.859: InstallSingleCatalogFile: MyInstallCatalog failed for Tmp.2.sp2.cat; error=0xfffffbfe. 1013.859: DoPreUninstallWrapper: InstallCatalogFiles failed 1013.969: CreateProgressWizardAndDoUninstall: Uninstall Failure 0x2 Researching the error I found the KB925931. I contacted Microsoft support but the response ti…

I have a remote domain controller that has been in place for around 2 1/2 years that suddently a little after midnight this morning started coming up with this error. It is installed with a volume license media, with the same product key as around 60 other servers on the same network. I don't want to jump in doing stuff as the server is a fair distance to get to if I do something to trully stuff it up. Not excluding the fact that there is around 500 GB of user data to restore if it goes wrong. Does anyone know what causes this kind of issue? Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows Product Activation Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 21/08/20…

My autocomplete has suddenly stopped working its not remembering anything I enter into forms or dropdown menus. I have all the appropriate boxes checked in the respective browsers. Doesn't work in IE7, Firefox or Avant browsers, hence I think its a problem with xp. I set up a new user account in case the old one was corrupt to no avail. Thanks in advance

In Explorer I can create a "Compressed (zipped) Folder". Is there a way zip a bunch of files in cmd.exe?

WinXP Pro computer which is joined to a Domain Controller, which means we have the standard Logon window, not the "Welcome" one with icons I would like to be able to customize the Logon box itself so that it has a disclaimer ("use for authorized purposes and authorized users...") in the Logon window itself. Note that this is different than using the reghack to put items in the HKLM/Software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/Currentversion/WinLogon/ LegalNoticeCaption LegalNoticeText which puts up a separate window (which users have to hit "ok" to get away from) Alternatively, if modifying the Logon box itself is too hard, using a customized backgr…