Hello, group,
If this question belongs in another ng, please redirect me.
I bought an eight GB flash drive from a Chinese seller on ebay that turned
out to be a fake. The seller has since been eliminated from ebay but in the

I'm trying to get away from using NERO anymore. I found a program
called commandburner but it doesn't finalize discs. If I can find an
app to finalize the discs I burn, I'm good to go. Windows 98, please.
Dos-Man

A customer tells me his entire network went down so that he could not access
any network drives on the server. I could not connect to the server via
remote desktop which is something that is always available to me. He
restarted the server but this didn't help. 20 minutes later he ...

I have a Compact Flash card..
and infact 2 CF-IDE adaptors. Both got broken in the same way - I
don't know if it's the cards's fault or the adaptor or both.
THe adaptor is like a circuit board. With male ide and male CF.

On my PocketPC PDA I was using Transcend 150x 4gb SD card. Recently I
replaced it by Transcend class 6 SDHC 8 gb card. My impression is that
my old 150x card is faster that the new class 6 SDHC card. Is there
any way to verify if my impression is true?

I have a Belkin PCMCIA card which has two USB 2 sockets.   Provided I reboot
my USB mediaplayer/sata storage device is seen.  If I safely remove in XP
SP3 then reconnect the device a message appears saying "Windows driver is
loaded for General Volume but Windows cannot find the ...

A dual core laptop (intel Core Duo T2500) runs with 2 cores and 4MB of
shared cache. If I disable 1 core then it leaves one core, which then has
the full 4MB cache all the time. My question is, would disabling a core cut
the power consumption of the laptop enough to increase ...

I just got a new external hard drive. It is a "My Passport" 250 GB
drive.
It works fine with my desktop, but I can't get it to work with my
laptop. Sometimes it comes up with the window for found new hardware,

I have a xp core duo 2 machine at my work with 500mb ram (desktop) and vista
ultimate core 2 duo at home with 1gb ram  (laptop).
I use a statistics package for my calculations.
While the comp at my work does the calculations in say 10 seconds, my home

Will Acronis Disk Director Suite make non-destructive changes to my har
drive to allow me to run XP Professional and Vista via a startup menu a
boot time?
Do I just allow program to set and manage partitions?

I have a Dell Latitude C810 & with both the batt & ac connected works well.
when I unplugg my ac it immediately goes to batt power w/o shutting down,
but when the batt indicates its getting low I plug the AC back in and the
icon on the bottom will not switch back to AC power and ...

Few yars back I build my computer with a Chaintech MOtherboard : the
Zenith ZNF3-250. It was a great MB and the accesories were rally good
too.
I put a AMD Athlon 64 3200+ on it.

Could someone please explain the procedure for replacing the DVD drive
on a Systemax MS2137?
Many thanks,
Andy in Sunny Scotland :-)

I bought a usb drive recently, but am going to return it because it is
too slow.  I did copy some files containing personal info onto the
drive though, so I want to make sure I wipe it off.  Is it enough to
format the drive?  Or should I fill up the drive with non-personal

Whilst using a USB2.0 <-> IDE/SATA bridge on a powered-up hard drive,
it fell off the table while files were being copied into it. Windows
then started complaining immediately about failed delayed writes.
Trying to power it on now just results in it powering up temporarily.