I am trying to transfer windows xp proffesional, all my files, and all my
programs from my old 4 gig hard drive to a new  40 gig. how d o i do a
complete transfer?

I am having a problem that has now occurred on two different computers. This
is something that has just recently started happening.
When I remove a hard drive that is the primary boot drive from a computer
and install it as a secondary drive in another Windows XP Pro computer, ...

I have 2 queries first I want to change the motherboard and memory only on a
PC I own. Does this mean I will have to reinstall all the software including
Windows?
Secondly,  I have discovered that a 478 chipset was used on my old

I Just installed a new motherboard and cpu . I connectted up my two
harddrives one with XP and the other with my stuff on it. The one will my
stuff on it comes up as being OFFLINE Dyanmic and when i click to reactivate
it comes up with a error and says to check the system log. I ...

when i try to access my floppy disk drive it says:
a:\ not accessible
incorrect function
it also appears when i try to plug in my mp3 player through USB, does anyone

Installed new drive as slave and it was detected when pc booted.Also
appeared in device manager.
I shutdown the computer down  but when It restarted it keeps telling me
there is a problem with my

Hello, I was hoping someone here could help me with this problem I'm
having.
Firstly my system specs:
OS: WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 1

My friend is facing an unique problem. When he presses k in his keyboard it
comes out as - .
When he presses - , that time also it comes out as -. Thus it is not a
regional language problem as it happens sometime. Can it be possible it is

I have a 80 Gb disk where I use to have win 2000 installed, and a 200
Gb disk with data. Recently I had to install win XP, which could not
recognize my 200 Gb disk. It says its a dynamic disk, and it seems to
me that i have to convert it to a static disk, which would lose my

I've been googling all day and have visited Asus' web site and can't
find out the following that I need to troubleshoot an issue I'm having.
I have an Asus P4C800-E mobo. During the boot, does Asus sound a beep
for each USB port in use? I'm using 4 ports and am getting four beeps

New Computer and I want to use my HP 2cx scanner which works fine with
regular ide drive & XP  but in Computer with serial ATA drive the system is
not able to automatically detect the serial ATA hard drive as soon as I
install the Tekram dc-395u/uw SCSI card.

Hello all you Windows doctors.
(Windows XP running on pentium 4)
Here are my symptoms.
Windows freezes on the welcome screen with a single beep from the motherboard.

Anyone know of a good website that properly calculates the required wattages
based on my components?

My old HD failed and ran maxtor diagnostics on it which said it was
kaput.New drive will not format it just hangs at 0 percent.Put in  a drive
from another pc to see if it would boot bit it shuts down during boot
sequence with an blue screen error message saying "it it protecting ...

I had my laptop hard disk crash on me a week or so ago and I am now
trying to recover the data from it.  I have replaced the drive with a
new one and now have the broken one a Toshiba MK4019GAX IDE 40GB
connected to my desktop which detects it in its BIOS but will not