Is this possible to enable and disable drive through batch file or script?

A friend of mine just bought a ASUS A8N-SLI Premiun motherboard and want's
to run 8 storage drives "not in raid" Is there anyway he can do this with
the 2 chipsets? 4 sata plugs are nVidia and 4 are SLI.

Running WinXP with SP2 on a MS-6728 (v2.X) ATX Mainboard using a Maxtor
6Y160M0 hard disk.
The above hard disk (150GB) was partitioned into 5 NTFS partitions, by my
friend who built the system, at 30GB each.

I am using winxp sp2 the problem is that my system has 6 usb ports 2 on the
mother board ie near the ps2 keyboard & mouse 2 through cable in the back
and 2 in front of the cabinet.
I have attached usb adsl modem in the back next to the ps2 and i tried to

I recently purchased 6 low end hard drive enclosures, "PT Brand"
PT-350U2-BL enclosures that were on special.  All 6 are USB 2.0 IDE
interfaces.  I installed 80 GB WD 7200 RPM drives in the enclosures,
all set to "master" as specified by the manufacturer.

Running WinXP Pro with SP2 on MS-6728 (v2.X) ATX Mainboard using Maxtor
6Y160M0 on a computer that someone else built as I have limited computer
expertise.
The above hard disk is divided into 5 partitions using NTFS however one of

I have 2 soundcards installed on my system. Is it possible to config, which
soundcard is to be used for a specific program without changing the
configuration manually everytime in control panel?
Ponn

I've read that AMD Athlon 64-bit provides full backward compatability with
32-bit OS's-software.
But Intel P4-64 bit provides limited one.
Could anyone explain that.

I have a 80 gig harddrive on my AMD 1700+ Desktop PC an run !gig of memory. I
would like to install a second harddrive of the same make { Westerndigital }
80 gig. I would like to keep the old harddrive so I don't have to transfer
whats on it. Is there someplace in XP that would ...

The old time computers, you should move your mouse to the left corner of the
screen and the screensaver would turn on.  Is there a way to do that now?  I
can't seem to find it.

I have a NVIDIA GeForce GO 7900 GS in my laptop and would like to go to
multiple external monitors.
At 1280 x 1024 my 19" Viewsonic VP930b contains the entire virtual screen.
The max resolution is 2048 x 1536, but the virtual screen extends outside

I have 2 Gigabyte Ga7n400-l Motherboards
2 AMD xp3200+
2x256 pc3200 kingston memory
2x256 pc3200 corsair

I've got a MS IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0 mouse that's acting up when it comes
to program specific settings.  It appears as though the mouse sometimes
'forgets' what the program specific settings are and reverts back to the
default settings.  After a reboot, sometimes it remembers ...

I want to purchase an external hard drive to store a large quantity of
photos. I've read that I should first ascertain "how big a hard drive [your]
PC can support."  My Dell has a 40 GB hard drive.  Will it support a 250 GB
external?