Somehow my boot drive letter got set to H or while
installing a second drive with a boot drive running it
was set to H. I would like to change this letter to C, is
there an easy way. Disk management won't let you change

Trying to get my courage up to install XP Pro. Right now I am running on Me
with my C drive -40gb and my internal Maxtor D drive also 40 gb. I also have
an external USB Iomga 80gb. So I read the installation manual  and it says
don't use Fat 32 if your drive is over 32gb. What to do ...

urgent..
i got this messege when trying to setup xp:38163 mb disk 0
at ID 0 on base 0 on atapi[MBR].
plz help me quikly !

I have just finished building my new machine on a GA-
8KNXP with 2 EIDE and a SATA hard drive. I'm not doing
any RAID just need the room. I want the SATA drive to be
my system drive (SPEED) but I'm not able to install XP

My XP-Home license is on an old/small/slow hard drive.  
I've added a 2nd drive (WD 120GB, 7200rpm).  I used the WD
Data Lifeguard tools to (image?) copy all of the old
partitions onto the new drive.  I tried relabelling the

I have a XP upgrade disk that my dad gave me.... He had it
installed on an e-machine that came with winMe.  He took
the XP out and went back to Me.  Can I install this XP
upgrade on my computer???

Does anyone know of commercial sw that will support my XP
PC running standalone in a museum kiosk.  I have
an "educational program" that I would like to restrict
museum visitors to.

I have a disk.  My friend has an HP computer that is
acting up (and I am fed up).
What I want to do is reformat the HD, kill all the HP
hidden stuff and install a new version of Windows.

Installation failed : D:\i386\ASMS error message : I/O
error
I've already erase the partition table and do the clean
installation but the error still exist.

I am doing a clean install on a partition that XP created
as NTFS. The install goes along fine, and gets to the GUI
past the device installs and cd key entering and all,
then begins the network portion of the installation.  It

I tried to create a new, single user profile for me and my
wife.  In doing so I deleted the old and requested that
all user files be saved to the desktop of the new.  NONE
of the files saved.  In short, we lost our honeymmon

i need help in preloading program... im always installing
Paltalk,Mirc,Acdsee and etc... in Windowx XP prof...
anyone knows how to ease my work... any program that can
automatically setup third party program... like sysrep...

This question is for a  friends computer.  His origional
XP installation had not been activated, and when it shut
down, he called Microsoft, paid for a new license by
credit card, and was instructed on how to complete

Running XP with a program called 123cctv.exe that is a 16
cam closed surveillance package. When program starts to
log and just before login MS error reporting tool kicks in
and loading stops 2 out of 3 times before program engages.

Installed full retail xp. Months later microproc smoked.
Removed 80gb seagate no partitions to new computer, which
would not recognize the drive. Booted from xp disk which
recognized the drive and tried to reinstall xp, following