I understand XP SP1 recognizes drives beyond 137 gigabytes.  Is this
true during a fresh install of Windows XP from a full release copy of
Windows XP SP1?
I have two 80 gig Maxtor Serial ATA drives.  I want them to run in a

i'm trying to do a new installation of xp, not an
upgrade,over my current windows me.  when i get to the
blue steup screen where it lists the existing file system
(fat32 or ntfs) i don't have enough space. wouldn't i need

Suggestions needed on getting an XP Home laptop with a corrupted
registry to boot.
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Upon trying to boot an XP Home laptop, the following error appears:

What's the best way to perform a clean install on my
laptop? Is fdisk still the way to go? Or does the XP
install disk do this for you?
Thanks in advance,

Can someone please send me or tell me the step by step
instruction to run sysprep on windows xp pro.
I know how to run it in w2k but xp is not working....inw
w2k when i run setupmgr.exe to run mini setup it goes

i have 2 Xp pro Pc's
one is a laptop and the other is a desktop. Not on a client server network,
rather a peer to peer.
is there anyway that i can synchronize the files on the PC's with each

I am attempting to install Windows XP on a brand new
computer.  I start out with boot from CD.  I partition the
drive and it works great.  The trouble comes when XP
starts to copy files to the disk.  Occassionally (more

I have just purchased a new computer with Home XP
installed in it.  I am now constantly getting annoying
pop up messages from "Messenger Service"  constantly when
on line.  Furthermore, since they are in Chinese and I

I bought win xp home from Fry's and got an OEM version (I
think). The computer I am installing to excedes the
requirements (pent 4 2.4 gig, 65 gig free on HD, 512K
mem). I am running win 98se now. when I ask the install

I work in a computer store and we have copies of windows
stuck on case sides and no idea if they have been
registered/activated.  Is there a facility on microsofts
web site to check if the product key has been used before?

I seeem to have a problem that I hope you all can fix.  I
have a older Celeron 466 computer that uses the Highpoint
tech. to enable the hard drive to run at UDMA 66.  When I
go and try to install XP on it XP doesn't see the drive to

SIR,
I have some problem in my WIndows XP home edition.Early
it is not working in Normal mode. After that I installed
Professional edition but it is not completetly installed.

Ive had a version of Windows XP Upgrade for a while, but
waited to install it til now. It boots up nice and goes
to the user login screen, but when i try and login, it
says "A problem has occured and windows cannot accurally

Not sure how to unzip a file...had the unzip program on
windows 98 and used it often.  Don't have it here (I
suppose)  How do I accomplish this?  Thanks.
SK

I have a SONY PCG-SRX99 and after installing XP Service
Pack 1 I am having so many problems.  How can I roll it
back or uninstall it without simply reinstalling XP?
Thanks in advance,