I see similar questions on here reference upgrading Win98
with XP and I have a question about backing up my data
before upgrading from ME to XP.
Since I know I can backup my "My Docs" stuff on a CD, my

Please could anyone help me i have accidently thrown my
master cd's away for my packard bell pc.I tried my
recovery disk[floppy] to try and reinstall factory
settings to recreate new master cd's but could'nt because

I recently installed XP over ME. Whenever I attempt a
scan for updates I receive the above error message. I
made a suggested change of the CSDVersion to "0" in the
registry

I have purchased the new Intel D875PBZ motherboard, which
has on-board RAID 0 (zero).  I want to use this resource
but am not quite sure how.  Should I install windows on an
ide hard drive and then try and set up Raid 0 or should i

I lost pwer during installation of a windows update, and
now >I cant get into windows.  I am prepared to reinstall
widows, but I need to backup my files from MSDOS before I
do.  When I attempted to reinstall, the computer gave e

Hi all, i am really stumped here. I have just upgraded my dual display pc from home edition to pro, or attempted to. I left the setup running to come back to find my monitors telling me the signal output was not supported. I rebooted, to be thrown back into the setup (the signal ...

I am installing XP on a new hard drive, that has been
partitioned.  I would like to rid myself of the partition,
and install.  However, I can not get windows to install.  
It gets to the installing devices, and crashes out to a

I'd like to be able to boot XP from an
external USB disk.
I can install XP on it, my laptop sees the
USB disk as a boot device.

I'm currently trying to install windows xp on a 2gig harddrive
formatted as fat.
I've copied the contents of i386 into c:\sys
The file 'disk1' is present in c:\sys and is readable

trying to perfrom upgrade only for Windows XP and get error
which trying to install on a current partition.  I get the
following error:
Windows XP cannot recognize the partition you selected.

I have been running xp for months. My dvd and cdr-w drives
d: and e: disappeared. Tried to uninstall AND REINSTALL
BUT THEY WOULD NOT REINSTALL. WENT TO SAFE MODE AND TRIED
TO REINSTALL XP. WENT OK THRU COMPLETING INSTALLATION-

Ill go to load XP back onto my computer (i had to unload it to do some hardware changes) and i get an error message 'Setup cannot contuine. Please use support at www.microsoft.com. Reference Error #5fbff8h' I'm not not totally sure if thats the exact message, but something like ...

Just got this new P4 2.6GHz computer yesterday, so the
slate is as clean as it gets. Windows XP Home was already
installed, but not the rest of the bundled software. I
installed one of those (an encyclopedia). It runs fine for

I had to reinstall win xp(home-service pact 1) and for
the life of me i cant not find my book or disk cover with
the product key. How do I find my key so I can reregister
Xp? Or am I going to have to purchase a new Key?or rebuy

Whenever I turn my computer on, everything seems to be
working fine except nothing is happening at all. My
monitor goes into standby because it has nothing to
display. My hard drive is running but not processing.