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• I have Windows Xp & have A HDMI cable connecting Tv.When computer not reading a DVD on the computer, good picture & sound BUT on Tv good picture BUT none her WHY? Darryl

  I have Windows XP.
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  When playing a DVD in the computer, I get good picture & sound on computer, BUT on the Tv I hear good picture BUT NO
  Can you please help

  Hello

  I suggest go to control panel - sound and HDMI from default and check if it helps.

  Also, try to update the latest drivers for the sound card and check if it helps:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/283658

  It will be useful.

• Computer not reading USB key not

  I have my jumpdrive connected to my computer. my computer recognizes it is there, but when I press it to enter it says I need to "insert into removable disk f" how to open my files in my jumpdrive?

  Hello

  I suggest you try to execute this fixit and see if it helps:

  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Tips-for-solving-problems-with-USB-devices]

  It will be useful.

• Attached to a letter from Apple is not read by windows computer

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  If you plan to support, you must provide much more information. Tell us exactly what you are doing and what is happening, including at the receiving end.

• My computer screen is in landscape position. How can I fix so that I do not read on the side?

  My computer screen is in landscape position. How can I fix so that I do not read on the side?

  Friday, October 19, 2012 13:12:42 + 0000, LisaCarey wrote:

  My computer screen is in landscape position. How can I fix so that I do not read on the side?

  The ability to rotate the screen image is a characteristic of your video
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• I just put in a new hard drive in my computer and now my sd card reader slot does not work. How can I get my computer to read the SD card?

  Computer crashed

  New hard drive in my HP laptop

  Computer is not reading my SD card

  Hello

  Make sure the SD card works on other computers.

  The card reader is a USB device to ensure that other USB devices work.

  Check with HP, their drivers support and documentation online and ask in the forums of HP where it
  others will be with the same or similar model. I hope this is just the driver. It is possible that the device has been
  back not connected properly or even damaged when installing the new hard drive.

  Support HP & drivers
  http://welcome.HP.com/country/us/en/support.html

  Contact HP
  http://welcome.HP.com/country/us/en/contact_us.html

  HP forums
  http://h30434.www3.HP.com/PSG/

  I hope this helps and happy holidays!

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• Computer to read DVD - one message says that I can not read the DVD, except that I have installed a new driver.

  I have a new Toshiba C650 laptop, and he says that I can not read the dvd on it except that I have installed a new driver. Is this true?

  Hi Bill,

  To be honest, this sounds ridiculous but if you get a message, I suppose it could be possible even if I find it incredible.  Do you have it in a (local or online) retail store or Toshiba?  By any chance did you upgrade from the DVD player when buying (where they may have accidentally neglected to update the drivers of the drive that was originally installed)?

  As it is new, Toshiba should help you with this.  Here's the contact page: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/navShell.jsp?cf=su_contact&pf=true.  Give them everything they need to prove that buy you it and it should be under warranty and then give them the message Word for Word, that you have found.  They should be able to help you.  They can, for some reason I don't know, you don't need to help or guide you through a new driver installation.  I ask for a clear explanation of why this is necessary on a new computer and, if you are not satisfied with the response, ask them to consider that all the faulty computer and replace it.  Even if they won't, he needs the get them less motivated to solve your problem.

  I hope this helps.

  Good luck!

• I have a cd and dvd ROM on my computer but it will not read the discs and is not recognized on my computer

  Original title: no dvd

  I have a cd and dvd ROM on my computer but it will not read the discs and is not recognized on my computer

  Hi Lesliestones,

  ·         Did you do any change on the computer before the show?

  Follow the suggestions below for a possible solution:

  Method 1: I suggest refer you to the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base and check if it helps.

  Your CD or DVD drive is missing or is not recognized by Windows or other programs

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/982116

  Method 2: You can run the fixit and check if it works.

  Your CD or DVD drive cannot read or write media

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/en-us

  I hope this helps.

• My computer will not read usb flash drives or recognize the iphone using windows xp

  How can I get my computer to read usb flash drives or recognize iphone using windows xp both can be played on other computers, but not this one.

  Hi Nate53,

  ·         You have the latest drivers installed for the computer?

  ·         Have you tried to connect the player to different ports on the same computer?

  Check to see if the following is useful.

  Method 1: Try to reinstall the USB controllers and check if it helps.

  a. click the Start button and then right click on my computer. Click on properties.

  b. click on the Hardware tab, and then click Device Manager. Expand the Bus USB controllers section by clicking on the sign «+»

  c. each of the devices under the USB controller section uninstall by right-clicking on each one, then click on uninstall.

  d. close Device Manager, and then restart your computer. Windows XP re - automatically installs the USB controllers in your computer, so you don't have to do anything further. Your computer is now running properly USB devices.

   

  Method 2: Log on to the manufacturer's Web site and update the latest chipset drivers and other updates to the device driver.

  How to manage devices in Windows XP

• I want to completely empty my computer and start from scratch, but now my computer will not read the disk drive or the usb ports

  Help with my computer of dumping

  I have windows xp and I want to completely empty my computer and start from scratch, but now my computer will not read the disk drive or usb ports. How can I do this without the disc?

  If there is anything physically wrong with your hard drive, you can use Darik Boot and Nuke (DBAN aka) to make a scrub of the security of your HARD drive. Glance to download here.

• How to "Windows did not start because of a configuration of the disk of the computer problem. Could not read the selected startup disk... "on a netbook without a CD/disk drive?

  I did a lot of research and unfortunately havnt found a road toward the front of the detroit to a fix. Long story short... I installed Jolicloud as a dual boot with windows xp on netbook gateway of my wife. This netbook has no cd/dvd drive. Jolicloud wanted to screw up the startup option to not allow me to boot into windows, going Strait to jolicloud without option of windows. I tried to change it via the "menu.lst" and Grub.cfg file (I think) the only value I changed was I think 'boot... ". ' value between 1 and 2. When I restarted, then finally got a startup list (although I don't think that my modification of the value gave me the list, I had already installed manually "Grub" via the cmd prompt. I should have just restarted from there without changing anything else... because when I chose 'windows xp' in the start menu... He gave me a black screen and kept going back to the start menu. Then, I tried the "Vista loader" option... hoping that it would some how solve my problem... He asked me if I wanted to run a repair any. I agree with him and when he finished he told me that there is no enough space on the hard disk to copy the files (or something like that) then it froze kind of there. I had to do a hard reboot after that that it froze, then I got the code "Windows did not start because of a computer disk configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk.  check the hardware path and startup disk, please check the windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware for more information reference manuals.

  Again, I have no drive cd/dvd on a netbook... IM assuming that im going to have to return a key USB with windows boot info to load the Manu F2 at startup... But I do not know... Help, please. Thank you

  Hello

  Follow method 1 and 4 in the article below and check if that helps resolve the issue.
  Error message: "Windows did not start because of a configuration of the disk of the computer problem.
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/314477/en-us

  I hope this helps.

• Impossible to download photos from Kodak digital camera-message says "the computer can not read scanner or camera".

  Original title: impossible to download photos from Kodak digital camera-message says "computer cannot read the scanner or camera > use cable because the card does not work." It worked fine for 2 years

  Hi twila11,

  · You receive an error with the error code?

  · What is the service pack installed on your computer?

  · What is the model number of the Kodak camera?

  Check the status of the device in the Device Manager. Follow the steps below:

  a. Click Start, type devmgmt.msc and press to enter.

  b. Locate the device

  c. expand the device, then double-click on it to check if there is no error code or error message.

  In addition, check if updates and patches are distributed by Kodak for the camera on the site of the factory.

  Link:http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2/6868&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=66353

  With regard to:

  Samhrutha G S - Microsoft technical support.

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• Dual Boot with windows XP Pro with 2 HARD drive, error on secondary windows install: "Windows did not start because of a configuration of the disk of the computer problem. Could not read the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware... »

  Hi, I recently bought a new Hitachi 1 TB internal hard drive. I wanted to do a clean install on the new drive (d), be able to dual boot my computer and leave my old 300 GB disk (C :) as the primary windows installation. After physically installing the new HARD drive, I noticed that "new hardware found" and the the brand name flashed in the bottom right corner. I thought I'd see the new hard drive in my computer, but I did not. I initialized the new HARD drive with the computer management window (right click on my computer - manage) and I also formatted in NTFS (I had to change my printer hard drive letter to assign the new HARD drive with the letter D, but I've made other changes after this step). Now, I could see and use in my main windows on the C: installation. I then installed a windows new copy XP pro with the installation CD I got for my C: but on the D: (Note: I have a Dell computer (and the Dell reinstallation CD) and my current version of windows has SP3 while the installation CD is only SP2) (I also reformatted my HARD drive during the installation of windows to NTFS)

  Now when I try to start on installing the new on my D: I get "Windows did not start because of a configuration of the disk of the computer problem. Could not read the selected boot disk. Check startup disk and hardware access path. "and another line saying to refer to manuals HARD drive and windows.

  My Boot.ini file at this time was:

  [boot loader]
  Timeout = 5
  default = multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (2) \WINDOWS
  [operating systems]
  "multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (2) \WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional "/ noexecute = optin/fastdetect
  "signature (ac516a5c) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (1) \WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional own "/ noexecute = optin/fastdetect

  I looked towards the top of this help page, but for now I'm unlucky:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/314477

  (The next steps I took by throwing from the Windows CD and go into the repair console)

  I tried to use the bootcfg /rebuild but the line to boot.ini for my secondary HARD drive still does not work.

  He gave me something like:

  [boot loader]
  Timeout = 5
  default = multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (2) \WINDOWS
  [operating systems]
  "multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (2) \WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional "/ noexecute = optin/fastdetect
  "signature (ac516a5c) disk (0) rdisk (1) partition (1) \WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional own "/ noexecute = optin/fastdetect

  I also tried to change the signature() to multi (0), but it did not work. (or try almost all possible permutations of disk() and rdisk() partition() 0 to 2).

  I also tried to use expand F(dvd-drive):\i386\ntkrnlmp(I_have_a_duo-core).ex_ D:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe and a few other combinations, but I when I login as D:\windows simply, it fails to extend with a message like "could not develop" or C:\windows I get "restricted access".

  I have not yet tried CHKDSK/r, but since I did a clean install on a newly formatted drive... I don't think it would work.

  I've also marked the partition on the D: as active (in computer management), but it did not help me.

  I've done a first installation of windows repair, strangely, I couldn't fix this one... Still does not work...

  My default windows installation yet works very well & I see that windows has been installed on the D: but I'm ideas from how to operate the dual-boot, can someone throw me a BONE on what to do?

  Maybe try to do something with the Boot Manager (whatever it is?) Create a new partition and use it as a boot manager? I don't really want to do this, because if I made a mistake I will be unable to use my computer and dual boot should work without going through all this trouble... But I found this page: http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/ee829686%28WS.10%29.aspx

  Could a clean install two HDD help? I hope I won't have to do...

  Someone has an idea?

  PS: I'm not such an advanced user so I need a solution step by step, thanks!

  Edit: I also noted that I can't see my new HARD drive in my BIOS... weird... SATA-0 is my old drive HARD 1 and 2 are my dvd 3-5 readers are 'off' and it doesn't seem to be anything that it is plugged in. I also have 4 bays for internal HARD disks. Now, 2 are busy.

  Edit2: I looked inside my case and enabled the good Sata in the Bios after a reboot it detected the drive correctly. Dual boot doesn't always work well... The fact that it was disable in the BIOS while I was installing the new HARD drive could change anything? Hmm...

  In case I wasn't clear enough: I had a windows XP Pro installed on my C:, bought a new hard drive and installed the same copy of windows on it (d). I think that should allow me to double boot between the two installs different. Even if for some reason I can't boot from one on my D:. Andrew, I do not understand why you so far physically disconnect the other drive, the point of the whole operation is to build a boot.ini file so that the BIOS knows that it y facilities 2 windows and you allow to choose (and not have conflicting problems between the 2 systems), someone correct me if I'm wrong? "Expand" the part of my first post made reference to one of the solutions provided by Microsoft in the first link that I have included in my previous post (but I can't seem to work).

  In addition, it is the procedure that I followed: http://www.ehow.com/how_5950826_boot-two-different-hard-drives.html

  (except I've had the first installation already done).

  Andrew "also, once a new hd is plugged on the pc & running, most of the BIOS will place (them) as 1st priority hd, set the BIOS to do this", you mean that by installing separately from windows on each unit when the other is not plugged in, I could choose what disk to start from defining their priority in the BIOS once they are all plugged back? It's too tedious (as I intend to move frequently between the 2 installs) and requires a computer to other users of the lack of computer knowledge. Unfortunately, it is not a viable option.

  EDIT: I DID IT! Hmmm... Well, I double checked in the recovery console, the path of the new HARD drive with the arc command Scan. Tried to start again with the MULTI (0) in my boot.ini and it worked... I also had my windows install CD in. Maybe that is why I could not start, windows needs the CD to complete the installation? Weird, I don't know what I did to the difficulty it... but hey, it works! Thanks for your ideas guys!

• My CD and DVD readers do not read the disc and my computer connects to the internet.

  In fact, I was downloading a game whose download was about 5 hours. So, I start in the morning and destiny to let it download until I got home. Now, in general, I did it all the time without ANY problems, but when I got home yesterday, 12/08/09 about 19:10:00 PST, the screen was black and read something along the lines of insert a bootable media device or restart your computer. Then, knowing that my score was beautiful and just as good HARD drive, I restarted. He reloaded the check disk tool and started a scan of my C: drive. He then started a long list of repairs, the removal and relocation of some files and things. Fine. Regardless of return to work. However, once it started normally, I couldn't access the internet. I tried to use the installation disc supplied with my DSL 2WIRE Modem, but it did not read and doesn't not appear on my computer. Then, I checked the Device Manager, I found to my surprise that the drivers to my readers of CD-ROM and DVD have disappeared, as well as my internet modem. So now, after this long description, my question is how/where on earth can download the proper drivers and then transport them to my computer? I use computer a member of the family at this time and would like to return mine. The name of my internet modem is Realtek RTL8139. Thanks for the help.

  Hello CC831,

  Thank you for your message.  Go to your computer manufacturer's website and download the drivers you need.  You can then transfer these drivers on your computer that do not correctly work with a USB key or external hard drive.  Please let us know if it did or did not help to solve your problem.
  See you soon

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• Windows XP Professional SP3 recognizes D DVD/CD-RW drive in my computer, but does not read the content.

  Control Panel indicates that the COMBI RW16x10/DVD unit. Properties indicate that a new disc has no free space.  Does not read CDs or DVDs with the content.  All indications from the Panel indicate that "device is working properly", but I can't read anything. Updated and modified drivers and troubleshooting I tried without success.

  Troubleshoot common problems that occur when a Windows XP-based computer cannot read a CD or DVD

  Please click on the link below and follow the steps as indicated on the page. This should solve the problem.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/321641

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