legacy hardware

Hello. I have an old hard drive that's not showing up in Win10. I've connected it to my laptop using a SATA to USB adapter, and it shows up in Disk Management, but not in Windows File Explorer. This HD has Windows Vista on it, but I'm just wanting to access the data/files. It was new in 2008...

Ok, so a LONG time ago, about 2005, someone gave me a Creative WebCam Instant. I want to hook it to my win 10 machine, but when i try and install the driver from the creative website, it says it only supports XP. Is there anyway to get this installed? i just need it for something simple. thanks...

Ok, so I'm not sure where exactly to post this, but I'm in need of some major help with my Zune! I love my Zune but I've given up unless someone can help. My original Zune purchased in 2006 finally gave up. I purchased one on eBay, new in box of the same kind, just different color. My old...

Hi I posted about having issues doing a clean install on my old computer, that I'm going to pass on to my nephew. Neemobeer and nmsuk gave me some help getting around the issue with running the install do to a formatting conflict. Once I got past that the install went smoothly and Windows...

I have inherited a Lenovo H330 pc complete with HDMI monitor. It was apparently bought c. 2013 and at that point came with windows 7 home premium pre-installed: the processor shows as an i5 2320 3.0ghz and it now has 8gb ram fitted (4 originally) and a 500gb hd. At some point it was upgraded to...

Good morning! My name is Tamara. I just joined this Forum because I figured it would be a lot of help to me since I am in the process of taking my A+ certification. So I won't bore you with the boring details! But hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Now, I don't know...

I have a Windows tablet with a Clover Trail processor that came with 8 Pro. Back in the days of the free upgrade I switched to Windows 10. Wanting to clean things up I did a reset to factory settings. Now trying to reinstall Windows 10 I get an error saying my processor isn't supported. Doing...

Two weeks ago I made a clean install from Windows XP 32-bit to Windows 7 32-bit. Was worried that new OS won't work properly because my PC is 7 years old and may not have the best specs, has survived a virus and hard drive crash twice. So far it works flawlessly. Now I'm been bugged with "Get...

Desktop PC: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (older motherboard but it has 8 SATA ports, two IDEs, and a floppy disk port) AMD 4000+ 4 x 512mb DDR 233mHz memory nVidia 9500 GT 1 x WD Raptor 74gb on SATA 1 2 x LD DVD drives on SATA 3&4 4 x Toshiba 2TB on SATA RAID 1-4 (Silicon Image RAID controller on the...

Whenever I print something in Windows 7 I need to restart my print spooler to get it to print. If I simply upgrade to Windows 10 will that problem follow me? If so, is there anything special I need to know about doing a clean install? I've never done one before. I have Windows 7 Home Premium...

In case someone has similar issues, hope this helps. I had 3 sound related issues on my laptop after the upgrade to win 10 from 7. - The volume was so low I could hardly hear anything. - The mute light was always on, f11 worked to mute and unmute. - Beats audio disappeared. My HP DV7-4065dx...

Lately my elderly dad's machine has been taking a really, really long time to get started, and everything runs slow for a good while after startup. This is on an HP Pavilion HPE, model h8-1114, which originally had Win7 on it but that he let update itself to Win10. What should I be looking...

Here's the thing: I have a two InterAct DexDrive's (one PlayStation, the other Nintendo 64). I have two PC's (one connected to the PlayStation DexDrive on COM1, the other connected to the Nintendo 64 DexDrive on COM1), both using Link Removed motherboards. They both hook up to my PC's via...

Hello, I'm having a bsod issue with my PC that has been bugging me for a long while now. Apparently Ntoskrnl.exe continues to appear in all of my Bsod mini-dumps and is almost always paired with another exe or system file. This particular pair has shown up several times, And seems to happen...

Well the clock is ticking XP folks, less then a month for now XP will be unsupported and you will have to choose what to do. If you want to keep your old hardware thats fine, as these alternatives are good if you dont like the fancy new Windows 8 or 8.1. Just keep in mind no OS will ever fully...

I have a Roland CDR-II drive which was purchased several years ago as a stand alone device. I have been unable to locate the drivers required to make this device functional. This device uses a db25 to usb adaptor. It appears Win 7 is incapable of handling this situation. This cd drive was...

I have a Kensington Trackball (the original grey square 4 button model) which works great and which I absolutely love. I have had it about 10 years now and it still works perfectly fine. Kensington got a lot of grief (and rightly so) for not providing driver support when migrating it from...

i have an old pci graphics card and i don't know much about it. i tried to get it working a while back but could never find drivers. all i know is that it is an ati radeon card. stickers on the back : ATI radeon 7500 64m(pci) sn:wya2009090455 and v7500-p64 843636001634 i dont know...

I have motherboard ASUSTek P5G-MX Intel 945 chipset (Socket775), Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2180 2.00 GHz with 2GB RAM, 1 TB HDD. will w8 install and run on it? W8 is not even installing, preview didn't install, and now Windows 8 Enterprise Final Retail 32bit is not installing. I have tried...

Please help! When playing Java games, (or I assume it's Java because Minecraft is the only Java game I play and the only new process is java.exe,) the mouse and keyboard will turn off with no warning but a "bee-doo". This is very annoying, because this means I need to manually restart my...