i currently have windows xp home edition on my computer.
I want to reinstall windows on my computer but all i can
do is the upgrade which only adds a new user. i want to
delete all info on my computer as i have currupt files

I purchased a new hard drive for my computer...I am
running XP Home Edition on my old drive.  This is an
upgrade version that I installed upgrading from 98SE.  
Question is, do I need to install 98 again and then do

I purchased windows xp upgrade home edition, I can't get
it to install over ME I have an etower 700 have upgraded
the memory to 256 mb.  I have scraped the hard drive and
reinstalled me and then attempted to add the upgrade,

i bought a laptop with Windows 98.  When trying to install
XP home upgrade edition I receive a message saying that a
windows operating system cannot be found.  I cannot
proceed with the installation.

How do I install XP on a hard disk w/o any op system?
I want to reformat hard drive of all info and then install
XP, but XP setup does not offer the option.
Part way into the setup XP states that it doesn't

I wanted to do a clean install of XP Home.  I'm currently
running Windows ME.  I plan to format my hard drive and
install XP from the DOS prompt, using the bootable disk.
Just to verify the I could do that, I rebooted to DOS,

We have 12 computers using Windows XP without internet
connectivity.  How do I register the Windows XP with
Microsoft?  Is there a telephone option for giving the
product keys?  The Windows was preinstalled by Dell when

i have a hard drive that has corrupt copy of xp and i cant
boot recovery cons or get into safe mode, it is 80 gig
ultra 100, i can boot from 98 startup and run fdisk but
it obviously doesnt see ntfs partition, i want to format

i get a blue screen that says Windows has revovered from
a serious error. IRQL LESS NOT EQUAL TOO. please help

How do I do this?  When I close the lid, the computer
shuts down.  I have an external monitor connected and
want to keep the computer running with the lid closed.

Ok, I have been reading help files and articles and the
knowledge base for anything that might be able to help
me.  I'm totally stuck.  My computer will not boot up at
all.  It gets to the Black Windows screen (with the bar

I have a problem with longpath.exe. when I switch computer
on I always get this message that this file is missed.
What shell I do?
I have windows XO home edition

I added a new hard drive. I used Disk managmenet in WIN XP PRO to
partition the new drive. Then I formated the partitions, one on 20GB
and one one almost 100GB. Then I copied what I needed from my old hard
drive over to the new one. Then I sold my old one. Then I bootet from

I am having the same problem, I feel like I have a trojan
loaded somewhere on my xp machine. I want to recover back
about a month and it will not do it.  What can I do?  I
don't want to completly format the whole disk and load

Hello,  
I just got XP home version and I need to troubleshoot
before next steps of removing a virus from my system.
However, I must start in safe mode to do this - but after