What is the problem  amd why would my operating system
disappear and return after an hour or so.. When I boot up
the computer, it says the operating system is missing, I
shut down and wait maybe an hour and it reappears. Please

Am I right in thinking I can set a partitions to have XP on first partition
and have second one to play games on, or do the games need to be on the
system partition, i.e. Ghost Recon, Prince of Persia etc.
Dave

Recently, I have been experiencing the following problem
with my Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse(USB type using a
PS2 adapter):
After starting up my computer(My OS is MS WinXP Pro), I

I have word 97 and one line of my text i need the text
font to be an off white color but word dosen't have this
color. Is there a way I can get this color for this one
line of text ?

I just installed a 160GB hard drive, but XP only sees
128GB. I installed it as a NTFS in the Disk Management
section. Any ideas how I can get the full capacity to
register?

My friend had a 40 gig drive in win98se. It was all one partition. He
bought XP and installed it with fat32. I told him he should have chosen
ntfs so he reinstalled under ntfs. Now he has a 32 gig drive and the 8
gigs aren't visible. He thinks there may be data there he needs.

Hi al
I have built a pc but am having big problems, when i get to the post screen everything seems ok, but that's has far as it goes then it re-starts, has yet i've been unable to access windows
Please does anyone have any idea
Joh

when I start my computer I notice that I get a reading of
pri slave not detected but the master slave is ok would
this cause the problem I am having with me trying to back
up my dvd's with dvd x copy express and if so how do I

I have installed SP1 and now it takes about 1 min 20 secs to boot, is this
normal, what is it looking for, is there something I can do.
Dave

I would like to know if converting my FAT32 hard drive to
NTFS will cause my installed programs not to function
properly?

Hi, i have a seagate 200gb hdd which i formatted 2weeks
ago in 1 partition. All was fine until one day i turned
on the pc and under my computer my partition on the
seagate drive was shown as "Local Disk" and unformatted!

I upgraded to XP Professional.  Now my CD-RW won't burn.  
It won't format.  I've downloaded Roxio's latest Creator
7 Suit.  The CD works just fine until I try to write to
it.  My computer is two years old.  It's a Gateway.  

Hi, I was looking for a freeware utility that will analyze your system and
tell you what hardware components are installed: manufacturer and some of
the features, such as memory, that they have.
TIA

im doingg an access project for my gcse ict course work
and seeing as i dont have access i just need to know if
you can insert a picture or photograph into and acess
databse. ie. a form.

I have a ATI AIW 9800 Pro graphic card on a win xp pro
system.  Last week I tried to the latest CATALYST drivers
for Windows XP Version 4.3.  I used the ATI Uninstall
software (which also removes the control panel).  I