Recently, I've bought a new PC with pre-installed Windows
XP Home. I want to partition my 120 GB harddisk without
the need to destroy and re-install Windows XP. What is the
way to do it?

I just installed the XP Home upgrade from Win98.  I was
already using IE6 and related Outlook Express.  After the
XP installation, all of my Outlook data, folders, etc...
appear to be wiped clean.  Is my original data gone for

I am running Win 2000 Pro at home.
I have found in the past that it is better to do a full
clean install rather than upgrade.
I assume this would still hold with moving from 2000 to XP

Can I make a set of boot disks/startup disks for XP. If
so, how so?

I've recently purchased a new PC which came pre-installed with
Windows XP on a 120GB Hard disk.
What I would like to do is somehow partition this into four
partitions (poss of different sizes, but doesn't matter).

I just set up my new computer (W-XP). Can anyone explain
to me how I can save all my email folders & messages from
my old machine (W-ME) & copy them to my new one? I use
Outlook Express 6 in both machines.

I installed XP Pro OEM on my computer a few weeks back,
and tried to update this week, only to be told by MS that
my product key wasn't valid. I had received the disk all
sealed up, so I knew that wasn't the problem, but after

I am trying to upgrade from 98SE to XP Pro.  I had PC
Anywhere 10 on machine but uninstalled it.  XP Pro claims
it is stillll there and I cannot get rid of it for XP.  
Have cleaned Norton, symantec, , various file extensuions

I must've been asleep at the switch, and asked for a new
installation, vs. re-installing over my existing copy
when I was being challenged by my new hard drive.  Any
suggestions on how to get rid of the superfluous 2nd copy

I have a Compaq system running Windows XP Home.  The
system will not get past the screen that lets me select
Normal Boot or Safe Mode.  No matter which option I
choose After this screen the system reboots.  The only

I get the System32 folder opening everytime I boot to
Windows XP. It is a known problem for NT, but I can't
find a solution for XP

i need to perform a repair installation of xp. how do get
the computer to start up from the cd-rom drive? steve.

Hi Experts,
Since doing a clean install of XP Pro my PC system will not recognise a QTec
USB/PCI card which I need to give me 2 extra USB ports. When I look at
device manager it lists an unknown device. Pulling the card and

A customer of mine was asking if we could make a script to
delete some directories on systems that we send to him.  I
know a batch file can do it nicely, is there a more
preferred way?  Second, will deleting any of these

I recently upgraded about everything on my computer.  I
have an original copy of Win98 SE that I install first,
then use a WinXP upgrade disc to perform a full install
(converting to NTFS) since I have no data or programs