I just installed a fresh copy of windows xp professional. It's a custom built
pc, so I'm starting with fresh new hardware here.
Heres the stats:
Processor – AMD XP 2600+

I am having an issue here with the sizes of my hard drives as they
appear in Windows XP.  I know that my BIOS does support large drives
because I have had everything set up correctly before.  I have three
hard drives, a 40GB IDE, 40GB SATA, and a 200GB drive partitioned into

I will be building a new rig. I need to compile a list of the things I need
to complete this.

I have a Dell Latitude C610.
When I boot with a thumbdrive, (have tried 2 different with same results) I
can explore the files on the drive.  If I remove the thumbdrive and
reinstall it under power I can no longer see the drive.  I do hear the

Hi! Running Gateway 500 XL 30 Ghz Pentium, XP MCE 2004 , 512 Mb RAM, w/ 2
separate hard disks: 160 Gb Maxtor and a 100 Gb Maxtor.  My primary drive,
C:\, is the 160 Gb.  My secondary drive, D:\, is the 100 Gb.  
I have a disk error on D: drive.  I've attempted following the SOP ...

I see that there are up to 32 CPU options available to set the Processor
Affinity, but only the first two are not grayed-out.  What hardware would
need to be installed in order to have more CPUs listed?
I have a dual-CPU machine that I use for analysis of scientific data (mostly

I am having Fujitsu Siemens Laptop nad WIN XP Home.
I am having an internal modem (Smartlink 56K Internal Modem)
Two Days before I was just browsing the internet and i downloaded the High
Mat CD update in the windows Update. Everthing was just fine and when i tried

If you have two Microsoft Notebook Wireless Mice on your desktop, with
two computers, and a USB receiver dongle in each computer, will the
wireless signals interfere with each other?
Thanks

I'm using a WD USB Ext HDD that I got for large storage.  I'm thinking at my
next reinstall of putting winxp home on it instead of the internal because of
it's large size.  It's partitioned & I'm running FS9 from it with no speed
problems.  Is it possible to put my OS on it, & ...

First of all I'm not sure this is the right NG. If not, please direct me
to
the right one.
On my system(see below) I would like to assign different IRQ to the

I have a 128nb USB memory stick.  I get the following problem:
Copy files to stick in Desktop machine.
Check that they've copied.
Put stick in laptop to transfer.

Hi, not sure if this is the right group, but here goes anyway.
I have a couple of machines running xp Pro SP2, They are not super fast
machines, but they are fine in most respects.
I have an old Primax Scanner which, with Win 2000 drivers works well on one

Recently, whenever I connect a USB flash drive to my PC Windows displays
it as an 'unknown device' and says it can't be recognised and has
malfunctioned. I have used 2 separate USB flash drives which are both
different makes and different sizes, but both come up with this error. ...

How do I find out what kind of HD I need to buy that will match my
MOBO?  I don't know where to find the MOBO specs.  Isn't there a
command I can use that will reveal the hardware configuration?  Using
XP Home.  Wanting to buy a new internal HD.  

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
The above article might go some way to explaining why so many users find
their CD/DVD drives have disappeared for no apparent reason.
You might want to think twice before purchasing copy-protected discs.