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It has only been a few days since we purchased a Western Digital MyBook product, and already it does not work. I've checked, and then double checked the cabling, connections and power cables to the WD product; they are fine, everything is connected, but it didn't work. I've checked the Device Manager, and there is no problem with the IEEE 1394 connectors in Windows.  I rebooted my PC and it still didn’t work.  I then shut down the PC and the power strip on my PC, which I also have the WD MyBook on, and the next day the MyBook finally came back up.  That’s good, but I am very concerned that this new MyBook seems to be unreliable.  I want to depend upon its being up, whenever my PC is up, as it is advertised to be.  Does anyone know what might be going on.  I’ve contacted Western Digital about it, and well at this point I’m trying to figure out what it is they’ve said, so I won’t comment about that until I get a better understanding of their response.

I’m using this on a 64-bit version of Windows Vista.

I'm a long time user of Microsoft Money (now known as Money Plus).  I used to have access to USENET newsgroups, and I could ask questions about MS Money there.  However, I no longer have access to USENET newsgroups, and I'm not even sure if Microsoft supports that as a place to ask questions and answer them.

Anyway, I'm wondering where I can ask questions about MS Money Plus?

I tend to be more of an ASP.NET developer than a Windows developer, however I do like to write some Windows apps every now and then.  I wanted to access a simple table in SQL Server, and so I put a DataGridView onto a WinForm.  It opens up fine, shows me all of the data, and I can add new rows to the grid.  However, this morning I discovered that even though I move off of a row I just entered, it isn't saving the data (like I would expect to happen if I were to be accessing the table through MS Access).

So the question is, what do I need to do in order to make the DataGridView control save the changes I make in it, to the SQL table?

For about a week now, every time I turn on my Vista Ultimate machine I've got a notice that there is some critical update to apply.  A couple of times and I can believe it, but I suspect what's really happening is that it is having a hard time applying some critical update.

How do I determine what CU it is trying to apply?

I've installed SQL Server 2005 Developer edition (64bit version) on my Vista 64bit machine.  After installing it the only thing I can find is the SQLEXPRESS instance, in SSMS.  I tried putting the installation DVD back in and reinstall it, but it says the default instance is already there.

So, why can't I see it and open it in SSMS?  I think I've got SP2 installed for SQL 2005.

I have just checked in SQL Server Configuration Manager, and have found that SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) is running.  However, both the SQL Server Browser and the SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER) are not running.  When I look at my machine's Services applet I see that the SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER) is set to start manually, and the SQL Server Browser is disabled.  I don't know if this would have anything to do with the problem I'm having or not, but I thought I would mention it.

Yggdrasil said:

Check out the WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) library, which is a COM library that can be accessed rather easily from .NET. There was a good post about it in Coding4Fun quite a while ago, let's see if I can dig it up... there. This should do it.

Thank you, Yggdrasil, I'll check into it. I'm a little surprised that it takes something extra - as in I'm surprised that the .NET Framework doesn't have something already baked in, to access a PC's webcam.

I am looking at doing some programming involving a webcam connected to the PC.  I’ve never done that before, so I don’t know how to get started.  I’m sure it can be done with .NET, so where do I start to look into this?

I've had to reinstall Vista on my system, but have saved all the files under C:\Windows.Old.  Therefore, I would assume that all of my Favorites, cookies, etc, are there.  I think I can find my Favorites, but I don't know how I would move my cookies over to my new profile.  How do I do that?

figuerres said:

Doctor Who said:

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looks like it has to do with SATA drives and or raid disks (mirror/stripe etc).

do you have a raid set?

sata controler?

do you have your vista dvd to do a repair with?

did you get sp1 from the windows update service?

did you read the msft kb on vista sp1?

did you backup files before doing sp1 ?

RodAtWork said:

BTW, I forgot to mention that trying to start it in Safe Mode does not work!  When I do it gets to the point of running crcdisk.sys, stops for a bit and then reboots itself.

What is crcdisk.sys a driver to?  And given my current predicament, how do I fix crcdisk.sys if I cannot log into Windows?