Here are my current drive letter assignments (using Windows XP Home SP2)
C - IDE primary master hard drive, single partition
D - DVD+RW burner, secondary master
E - IDE secondary master, dock for removable drive trays, IDE hard drive

Any links?

I'm going nuts here.  I seem to have hit a limit in Windows on
firewire devices but I can't find anything about it on the web.
I have found article 830987, it looked like my answer--except this
machine was SP2 from the start.  I've checked the driver, it's later

  When i run new hardware wizard. This message below show on popup.
"You can install only one device at a time. Another device installation is
underway, when it is finished you can try this wizard again."    

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I have a USB device for which I have obtained its appropriate drivers -
.INF, .SYS and .CAT files. The driver is signed, that is ok.
I would like to PREinstall the driver on client computers so that when users
first connect their usb devices they do not get the "found new hardware"

My wired intellimouse explorer occasionally hangs up for a second or two
while the cursor moves across the screen. I think the issue is the computer
itself, as if it has to think every now and then.
The problem makes it hard to play some games, as I'm unable to turn or look

My daughter's HDD on her Dell Dimension PC crashed and became unreadable
(not backed up of course) - unbootable volume reported.  The Windows XP
setup disk could see 3 partitions (2 Dell diagnostic partitions FAT and
FAT32) plus and unknown one (main NTFS partition) - I have not ...

In Disk Management I see that disks are assigned numbers.
Is primary master always designated as "Disk 0"?  Primary slave always
designated as "Disk 1"?  Secondary Master always as "Disk 2"?  That's the
way it is on my system, at least right now.

I have win XP Prof. + SP 2 installed on my P4 3 GHz PC, having one COM prot
and an external modem (D-link) is connected to it.
I have installed WinFax Pro for faxing and on configuraing this It gives
error tahat COM1 port is in used by another application.

When I either reboot manually or my system reboots itself because of some
glitch-- I frequently lose about half o f the icons in my systray. If I then
go to restart (my OS is XP Pro) and reboot again the entire group of icons is
once again loaded? What is going on? I ran MSConfig ...

I would like to take my old 40gig harddrive which has Windows 98SE on it an
make that my slave drive, an put Windows XP&SP2 on my 80 Gig and make that my
master. Is all this possible or am I just going to make a mess of things??
Thanks everyone for your time an help. If it was't ...

here are some general questions from an out of date hardware guy.  The
questions are not xp specific but I know the people frequenting this group
will likely know the answers.
1) in general, are todays usb2 external hard drives fast enough to do more

I recently installed a us robotics network adapter into my desktop, but when
I try to connect to the internet it states that although the adapter is
enabled the hardware switch needs to be enabled before the adapter will work.
Can someone please tell me how to enable the ...

...anyone know where I can buy one in the UK  I've been Googling for hours,
and the nearest I got to it was an RP-SMA "fit it yourself" plug.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=44015&criteria=rp%20sma&doy=12m9
...which means I have to cut the MC plug off the