I recently upgraded from XP Home to XP Pro. I also got
the RAID feature set up nicely.
Now, I have changed the way my DVD-RW and CD-RW drives
are connected. First I had the DVD as Master and the CD-

I had a hard drive failure and am installing a new one. I
have WXP pro and started reinstalling it to the new hard
drive. I got to the point where I need to enter the
product code and the last 5 characters are missing from

On installation;Ican't get past the blue screen that
says, "starting windows"? It's like my system hangs while
it's trying to load the primary drivers. My system is
previously ran Windows 98SE fine, I totally wiped it out I

Somebody Help!!  I have a friend whose PC (AMD Athalon,
128 MB RAM Win XP Pro)will freeze right after the desktop
appears, or when the XP boot screen comes up the blue
load bar stops, then the HDD makes this high-pitched

I can't get windows to work. I tried to re-install it and
it still won't let me. I think it crashes because it just
won't do anything until I restart it. I'm getting all
kinds of error message like the following:

Quick & simple.
During the initial install of XP, Is there a log
generated?
If Yes, what is it called & where can I find it?  

I'm trying to install XP Pro on newly built PC. I've booted using the
Western Digital CD to prepare the HD for XP Pro SP1.
The XP CD boots fine and loads all the drivers, but when it gets to to the
"Setup is starting Windows" part of the install is crashes (usually

I have an pirate copy of Windows XP Pro that was installed
on this computer.  I am willing to purchase a legal copy
if I can get help with deleting, formatting, installing,
saving existing files and programs. I do not have all the

I have a hard drive in NTFS format and I want to reformat
into FAT32 and install Windows ME on it. When I boot the
computer, after running through the bios, it
says "Primary Master Hard Disk Fail". Or something to

Sorry for this lengthy query, but here goes:
I want to fix the master boot record because I also have
Linux on my PC and I wish to delete it, resize its
partition and install a new version, but I need to get rid

After Windows xp was installed I returned the disk to its
holder and found it to have a crack in the middle of the
disk.  It was returned and was promptly exchanged for a
new one.

I have Home Edition and want to install Professional.  
What are the steps that I need to take?  Do I set a system
restore first, if so, how do I do it correctly?  I would
appreciate your help!

I JUST SET UP MY WINDOWS XP BUT ALL MY FILES ARE PRINTING
IN WORDPAD AND I CANNOT CHANGE IT  HIW DO I DO IT?

does retail version of windows XP Home edition cd(sold
for around $90) work for any system (emachine, pentium,
Athlon)? Since I can't return it once I bought the cd, I
don't want to buy the wrong cd. I have an ECS K7VTA3

I activated XP on an old machine a few months ago and now
I'm using another computer now with no intent to use the
old one. Can I activate XP again on the new machine
without violataing the privacy rule?