Can someone explain the difference between making a HD a master drive and
making it the slave drive?
I've laways presumed the master drive was bootable and the slave not. Is
that correct? If so, is that the only difference?

Please Some 0ne Help me. I have XP one my hard drive and I am upgrading my
Mother Board. But because I had XP on another Mother board the New Mother
board wont work
The people at the store said I have to delete every thing on my hard drive

What is the difference between an ATA-5 drive and an ATA-6 drive.
Can you swap an ATA-6 drive into a machine that has an ATA-5 drive?
Thanks

My son's system suddenly will not come on (no lights, fans, nada).  Is there
possibly a fuse in the system that might have blow preventing any power up?
Marv

since fitting a dvd writer c drive has been changed from ultra dma 5  mode
to pio any help please

I have bad sound thru media player, sound hags usually when using the mouse
I have 512 of ram.  A friend suggested buying a separate sound card instead
of using the motherboard (Epox) one
Anyone have any suggestions on this please.

I recieved an e-mail saying i might have a virus.  I
deleted the files and then discovered it was a hoax.  How
do I re install the java de bugger.  I've been on the
microsoft site but get lost when in the link can anyone

I HAVE JUST BOUGHT MY NEW PC AND HAVE GOT A SYSTEM ERROR
1003.CAN ANYONE HELP

Can somebody please help!  I installed a belking 2 port
2.0 USB PCI card and after the installation of the
drivers, my desktop is gone, I can access my programs via
the task manager but the desktop icons and start menu bar

I want to install a 160GB drive as a second slave drive
to store videos and pictures.  What is the deal with
large drive support and what steps will I need to take to
install and format the drive?  

In a previuos post, Bob Harris said that 48bit LBA has to
be enabled (after installing SP1a in XP).
How do I enable 48bit LBA ?
Is this done in BIOS or XP somewhere ?

I've always used this reg tweak in the past but I had to
format ysterday and they just don't seem to work now.
Applying the original reg tweak, "2gfl-f.reg", makes the F
keys disabled regardless of whether the F Lock key is on

I have recently installed a maxtor 2F040J0 20gb Hard
Drive as a secondary hard drive on my PC. Actually it was
installed by a technician. Everything seemed ok until I
tried to use system restore when an error message came up

Hey there, firstly thanks for looking! Here is my issue,
I recently got a DVD burner and burnt a back up of all my
documents onto a DVD as a Data DVD then took it to my
friends house to transfer some files on his comptuer - XP

I have a 3 yr old Micron Millenia Max with an IBM
(Hitachi) Ultra ATA/66 hard drive jumpered as master.
On the same cable I have a Zip Drive. I wanted to install
a new WDC 100 gb ATA drive as a slave. I uninstalled the