My computer has stopped recognizing my DVD/CD-ROM drive. The bios finds the
drive OK, the Windows XP professional version finds the drive OK when it
does a hardware scan. It then says it had a problem installing the hardware.
The Device Manager under System shows the correct ...

I'm using a internet keyboard (Cicero, I think it's FutureShop's house brand
(in Canada), if that means anything) with XP Pro, which I had previously
bought for use with a Windows 98 system.
The keyboard has all sorts of buttons for setting volume, starting the

I bought the computer and C drive has just 13.GB, and now it just left 2.04GB
But D drive has 92.8GB, and now it left 76.0GB. I want to move some rest volume from D drive to C drive
How can I do that?

Is it possible to run both Windows XP and Windows 98 on my
computer?  My computer was working perfectly on Windows 98
until I upgraded to XP and now I have a host of problems.  
Can I reinstall and use 98 while I get my XP problems

Will all the files on my computer be lost?  Or will i be
able to keep them?
Someone let me know please! Many thanks.

I recently bought a DFI AD77 mother board, athlon xp 240

I have a Pentium 4, Windows XP Professional, Intel 2.6 MHZ, Total
Physical Memory    512.00 MB.
The problem that I am having is that every time that I shut down my
computer it automatically re-boot itself. Before it re-boots itself

I've recently added a new memory card to my computer and
now at times a screen will come up saying "Failed to
locate O/S". I'm running Windows XP. When I reboot,
usually Windows will start up. Can you tell me why I

Did it right, I thought! Full format and clean reinstall, got all the updates and then created new restore point just in case. System now seems to have a big problem remembering user profiles, one when I log on to an existing one, it is acting as if it is a new user profile, ...

Is there any way in WINXP, as there is in other OSes such
as LINUX and UNIX, to unmount a disk drive so that it
appears to WINDOWS that it doesn't exist (but can be
remounted and accessed when desired)?

I am trying to reformat my 2nd hard drive using Disk
Management (in Administrative Tools - XP Pro) but I keep
getting errors telling me that the volume I am trying to
format is open or in use.

2 weeks ago, I updated my motherboard and CPU and did a
complete reinstall of XP on my C drive.
Everything worked great.  Two days ago, I lost access to
my D hard drive and XP is now telling me the drive is not

how can I fix this couldnt open drive multi(0) rdisk(0)
pertition(1) NTLDR

my Pc starts up all the way to pesonell settings then
switches off and comes back on again. then its fine
please Help

When I put new cd in the auto install no longer works.  Can  install manually and all cd's working properly but would like to get auto-install back.  Can anyone help?