I recently got WinXP Pro to install on my laptop.  My
laptop had Win2000 Pro.  I installed XP and it then had
dual boot between XP pro and 2000 pro.  Well I then went
in to Win2000 pro and did and XP upgrade this time.

I have a Sony Viao laptop F650, with a 10 Gb HD that was originally partitioned.  I would like to have the disk without any partitions, but when I upgraded from Win ME to Win XP (new installation choice), the HD was again partitioned.  How do I install Win XP with only a single ...

I recently purchased the XP Home upgrade for my son's computer. He has Windows ME. His computer is a Dell Dimensions L1000r. We tried to do an upgrade and upon restart, the computer will not load . We only get a black screen. We can't get past this point. Is there anyone with any ...

Hello, i am trying to load XP onto a computer with a
formatted, 40gig HD.  It is a legal microsoft XP Home
disk, and after installing files (with several not being
able to be installed, ntdll.dll not being one of them)  i

Could someone please direct me to the proper place and
article(s) on the above subject?  Just want to move files,
not settings, using a Serial or USB cable direct
connection.

I am getting the error message in the subject of this
message, the stop message:
STOP: 0x0000006F (0xC0000020, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
Scenario:

Hi. I have a Dell Inspiron 51000 notebook, preinstalled
with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition. I bought a
Windows XP Professional OEM CD, and tried to upgrade
Windows XP HE to Windows XP Pro.

I am continuously running into this error while trying to install XP Home Edition(upgrade version, but with a completely new install, isntead of over an OS).  I can't seem to narrow it down much, but I think it may have to do with the Serial ATA drive.  First I start up the ...

Is it possible to remove the 'Standby' option, leaving just 'Restart' and
'Shut Down'? Some of our users are putting the PC's into Standby mode (with
confidential info still open) by accidentally clicking on the wrong option.

XP gives me a message on product activation: "this copy of
windows must be activated with microsoft before you can
log on. Do you want to activate windows now?"
when i press "yes", i just get the same message back, what

After only a few minutes into the installation -
From (windows 98 to windows xp)the install stopped-
error message reads - "contact microsoft support -
error message 5A9FF58h"

I have found a web site that is selling windows xp pro
2002 for $34. It is OEM from Europe.The site says "This
software is recognized as a backup software."
They say it is a full retail version. Should I beware of

I have a sata hard drive that is partitioned into 3 drives. (C,D and E)
In each of the drives there's a folded named "System Volume Information"
When I try to open it I get "System Volume Information is not Accessible"
I'm the only user using XP Pro. Can someone help me on this? ...

I have a Dell Latitude C600 with a 10Gb hard drive which
is full. I have bought a removable 20Gb hard drive which
will fit in the bay that now has the CD drive. The current
operating system on the 10Gb drive is Windows 2000

I have an aptiva 2270 that is running windows 98se just
fine. I wanted to install xp home. I formatted the drive
and put the cd in the rom and rebooted. It came up with
the blue screen and had the "press f6 to install 3rd party