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    External Hard Drive problem

    No hat is not the case. essentially the drive went out just after it displayed the message that I://$Mft not found, I was one of the partition of my external hard drive.
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    External Hard Drive problem

    I had recently bought a WD 500GB MY Book premium firewire/USB external hard drive from Amazon. Everything was working just fine until tomorrow when suddenly I got a alert message saying one of my partition on the hard drive was not being recognised and data seemed to have lost. I tried to stop...
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    Yahoo Messenger problem.

    Yeah thats true and yahoo doesnt care about its customer complaints anymore. They shoul remove the feedback and complaints section from their website completely. Yahoo removed the personal chat room sections at least there you could create your own chat rooms and have genuine people in there.
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    Yahoo Messenger problem.

    i had some similar problems with webcam. i went into yahoo trouble shooting page and found out a registry tweak...may be havin a look there might be of help. recently i have been experiencing sever problems with yahoo chat program. it takes a hell lot of time to sign into a chat room and if i...
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    Difference between Hauppage TV cards

    anyone on this issue????
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    Difference between Hauppage TV cards

    Could anyone tell me the differences between the following cards and which one would be the best for channeling a cable set top box on my PC: Hauppage WinTV HVR1300 Hauppage WinTV HVR110 Hauppage WinTV PVR150 Hauppage WinTV PVR350
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    Laptop purchase

    anything above 14 inches (preferably 15)
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    Laptop purchase

    I am looking to purchase a new Laptop. i would be glad if people could advise me on which one to go for depending on my requirements and budget. My max budget is $1000. And i would be using the machine for regular use which includes watching movies and a little bit of gaming too. I normally use...
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    CTVMI2 TV Tuner card

    how did you connect it to the cable digital box? did you connect it via RF or do u have a component in on your TV card. I guess if it is RF then the picture quality might tuen out to be bad
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    TV tuner and Scart

    I want to connect my NTL box to my PC. I believe, i need to get a TV tuner card installed. My query is what is the best possible way to connect the digibox to the tuner card? Is there a TV tuner card which can take in Scart input? I dont want to connect it via RF.
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    Core 2 vs Core Duo

    Probably a naive question....what does the speed rating on the processor denote, i.e. a 2Ghz core 2 duo processor does it mean the total processor speed is 2Ghz or is it that each core has 2Ghz power so the total is 4Ghz?? what would be the extrapolation for a core duo?
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    Core 2 vs Core Duo

    What is the basic difference between these two processors. And has anyone tested out which one is better performance wise and upto what extent? e.g. would there be noticeable difference between a 2Ghz core Duo processor and 2Ghz core 2???
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    which network adaptor?

    Thnks for your replies. And yes my quey was about wireless. And from the answer it seems should go PCI way. Another question tha just came into my mind was that would i be able to connect a wireless router to my PC by a normal ethernet cable as i do have a onboard network adaptor (but it is not...
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    which network adaptor?

    What is the best option to equip your computer with wireless networking or to communicate with a wireless router: PCI wireless Network adaptor card or USB network adaptor USB wireless network adaptor dongle (this one resembles just like a jump drive) Will the USB network adaptor work for...
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    extracting rar files

    I have a downloaded a movie file (avi) which is split into multiple rar files however, the last rar part comprising of about 5MB is missing. is there any program with which i can extract with avi without this missing part (i understand i would loose that part if it is extractable at all).
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    Software installation in XP---query

    Thanks for the reply. So what i wanted to know is that in genral what is everyone's opinion on this issue? Is it always advisable to have the apps in other partition? Has anyone ever encountered any problem becoz of this?
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    Software installation in XP---query

    Dear all I was wondering if it is at all possible to have XP on one partition of hard disk and have all the application softwares running from a different partition of the HDD? Is this at all feasible and how? Inputs will be highly appreciated. Thanks
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    Yahoo messenger and Webcam problem

    hi i have a strage problem. I have logitech pro 4000 webcam for last few years. Evrything has been working fine for me till i formatted my hard drive recently. I installed drivers for the webcam using logitech CD that came with it. Then i installed the new yahoo messenger 8.0. Now when i try...
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    XP Boot problem

    I have scanned the hard disks (CHKDSK) and they seem to be fine. Is format the only option now??
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    XP Boot problem

    No it doesnt hang forever, It just sits there on the windowsXP black screen with the busy ticker moving side to side and hard disk light glowing constantly. And then after about 2-3 mins it moves forward and boots up normally. For me what has been most intriguing is this started suddenly out of...
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