Our USB drive turns on when we plug it in -- it's obviously USB -- but nothing happens. Right now there's no support for USB storage, including playback of photos, music, or movies, nor saving channels or games to the device. Bummer.

Don't expose your laptop to resonating noises, for example loud bass noise from speakers, heavy machinery.

Unfortunately, this is not possible as this will be in violation of the copyright terms of the background music that we used for the slideshow. Please wait for the CD to become available instead. I clicked on the other menu links of the movie (eg, About Parent's Wish, View Feedback, etc) but it did not open up those links. Please tell me that this isn't a film to defend the 'right to die' movement and euthanasia.

Almost all movies are encrypted with CSS copy protection. (See 1.11). Decryption keys are stored in a normally inaccessible area of the disc. If you copy the contents of an encrypted DVD to a hard drive, the keys will not be copied. If you try to play the VOB files, the decoder will request the keys from the DVD-ROM drive and will fail. You may get the message "Cannot play copy protected files". DVD production has two basic phases: development and replication.

Support for the Hammer USB drives can be found on their website at http://www.hammer-storage.com/ or by calling 1 (800) 237-0840.

The 3.5" hard drives used in the XtraDisk USB drives are typically Maxtor, IBM, Western Digital or Fujitsu hard drives. They typcially have the following specifications: The 2.5" hard drives used in the XtraDisk USB Lite drives are IBM, Toshiba, or Fujitsu hard drives with the following specs:

No. Computer hard drives and duplicator hard drives are two separate file systems, so they cannot communicate. The USB and Firewire connections' allow the computer to use the duplicator as a CD or DVD external burner. You can use either of those devices to store the data on a disc from a specified CD or DVD drive on the duplicator. Once you create that disc, you can use it as your master disc to load into the hard drive and make your duplications. No.

None of this has been asked by journalists and Sony hasn't mentioned it so it's fairly sure to say "no" to this one. Making it impossible makes sure that people buy more Memory Sticks.

Yes. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.x, however data transfers will be much slower if using a USB 1.x connection.

Approximately $100 to $200 for a case with power supply, plus the cost of the hard drive, plus the cost of the SCSI-TV. Buy a tape drive that is recommended by your backup software. We have tested ARCHIVE and TEAC tape drives using "AmiBack" backup software.

This may be the easiest task you'll ever perform, using your 360. If you bought a Premium 360 (a.k.a. a white outer box), look around for your hard drive. If you cannot find your hard drive contact 1-8004MY-XBOX. If you bought a core 360 (a.k.a. a green outer box), open up your hard drive that you bought from the store.

You will need a 2.5" notebook to IDE adapter or cable to connect the notebook hard drive to the IDE port on your mainboard. Please make sure that pin1 (the red wire on the IDE cable) is connected to pin1 on the notebook drive. Pin1 is always located right next to the jumper pins on the notebook drive.

No, you MAY NOT load songs from other manufacturers on your hard drive. The licensing rights for music on a hard drive machine exist only between the machine manufacturer and the music provider. These rights do not extend to the owner of the machine, to load songs from other manufacturers on the hard drive player. Copying the discs on to a hard drive is still copying the discs. Legally, it is absolutely no different than burning a copy of the discs.

Added Gone With the Wind and Riverdance: Live in New York to "flipper" list. (1.21) Thanks Ed and Rick.

Lilo, the LInux LOader, either loaded the second stage loader or the kernel from a file located above cylinder 1024 of the USB hard drive. The LinkGear runs a modified lilo based on version 21, which still has the 1024 cylinder limitation. The cyclinder number was truncated by lilo, causing an incorrect sector read. Executing this garbage code caused an exception. The solution is to create a boot partition before cyclinder 1024. Both boot.