I installed XP pro over WIN ME, the XP worked for 3 days.
After that i turned on my machine and i only heard
one "beep", after the bios screen the hard drive sounding
like it was churning and after a few minutes an error came

Hey, which update we should use?? I have been trying to
download updats but failed badly. I did abloe to download
one but it didnt helped me for window xp

While attempting a clean install over Windows 98
everything seemed to be going O.K. until a BSOD (blue
screen of death) popped up with the message ' The file
fdc.sys is corrupted.  Press any key to continue. '.  

I'm pretty sure my copy of XP is messed up.  I can get 98
to work on my PC, but when I try to upgrade to XP setup
locks up on a reboot.  XP was installed on this computer
and running fine.  For some reson (I wasn't around, so I

I have XP Pro installed on a PC setup for demonstration
and testing purposes. I will sell the copy of XP Pro
though in the future so I do not want to activate it on
the demo PC. Does anyone know of a way to reset the

I contacted my computer manufacturer regarding a problem I
was having with it, and afterwards I asked him about my
problem while trying to upgrade to Windows XP Pro from
Windows 98 SE.  He said that Windows 98 SE was only meant

I have Windows XP Prof. on a laptop that came with the
computer and Windows XP Home on a desktop that also came
with the computer.  I have just purchased a new desktop
to replace the old desktop but I want to put the XP Pro

Dear Group
I am using a home build machine running XP Sp1 Home. A
week or so ago I ran XP Smoker on my machine having read
articles claiming it was the "best" utility for speeding

Did I miss something in the readme.txt or release notes?  
Because I just installed SP1 on Win XP Pro (which had no
service pak before, only hotfixes) and the upgrade
consumed 2.0 gb of disk space and never relinquished any

I'm getting ready to upgrade from windows Me to XP. Im
have384mb of ram with pent.3 processer just wondering if I
need to do anything special are just install over me.
Thanks

Having a problem installing windows XP fatal error
5f6ff58h, then exits installation

Hi, I'm being swamped with people trying to get me to fix
their computers with the Blaster/Lovsan worm.  Some
people decided to take it apon themselves to try to do
reinstall repair on WinXP.  Now there is a error that

I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if it was
possible to install WinXP on my pc's d: drive whith still
having Win98 on my c: drive??? I want to do this so that i
can see if there will be any problems running XP on my pc

I have a master P4 2.5G/1GB RAM machine on which I have
installed XP and other applications.  However after sys
preping the image and taking it to a P3 or P2 it hangs
when loading MUP.SYS.  Is there any way around this or do

while completing installation of the above anti virus
patch, my installation was halted by a notice screen that
stated " check that cryptgraphic service is running on
your computer".  the download would not complete because