I recently did some majore parts rearranging with my two computers. I originally had an HP Pavilion 7915. I took the hard drive from that computer and put it in my old system with a new motherboard and CPU (a Chaintech with an AMD Duron). The computer froze on startup every time ...

I am wandering about specifying the "Allocation Unit
size". I have (origional 80GB) added a 80Gb  hard-drive
to my machine. In total there will be four partitions.
    C:\ WindowsXP Pro  37.23GB NTFS for basic Desk

I am attempting to intall XP Pro on a EPIA MiniHTX mother
board. This is a brand new load not an upgrade.
After the drives load and the message says starting
windows I get a blue screen and the message

is it possible to buy an upgrade from xp home to xp pro,
or can I do an upgrade another way with a retail or an
oem xp pro disk?

My question is simple:  can I install W XP Professional on a laptop with only 9mb ram ?
I realize that 128mb is the minimum recommended but I'm wondering how bad will it run on just 96mb ram.
1) I've tried to buy more memory but I have an older pentium mmx laptop with 96mg ram and ...

I am having a problem after I upgraded from windows 98 to
windows xp.  I firstly check the system upgrade report
which you can get from windows XP CD and my PC did not
have any comparability problems exempt with Norton Virus

I have win98 on my system and when I tried to install
windowsXP on to another partition during installation the
following error occured...
win32k.sys file error

One of the things I try to do is to keep Windows XP
updated with the most current critical updates and service
packs.  I have an HP Laptop for my wife (Do Not Remember
the model) that when I try to update I get an error

I have the same error as David A.  Another websites say this is a problem with the CD (WinXP Pro SP1) and the fix is to rename the file MSDART.dll to MSDART32.dll.  That is great but I am stuck in a setup loop.  Can't seem to break out of the upgrade.  If I boot to a floppy disk, ...

My IDE hard drive went out and I had to buy another drive.  Well, I bought a Serial ATA (SATA) drive which acts and boots like a SCSI drive.  While installing WinXP Pro, I didn't have any hard drives connected to the onboard IDE and when I installed WinXP Pro it saw the SATA ...

i am getting an error message when i install XP
"the procedure entry point GetIUMS could not be located in
the dynamic link library MSDART.dll"
anyone know what to do

After installing the floppy drive and turning on the system again I do not get the set up screen as the instructions say I should.  Therefore I can not execute the the rest of the steps in this process.  How can I get to the set up screen?  Any help please.  

I'm modding a PC motherboard into a Apple G3 case, and I
want to have an external DVD drive.  Does XP have the
necessary drivers to load the setup from a DVD-ROM drive
connected by USB or Firewire?  If not, is there a way I

I have upgraded to SP1a and now XP is asking for reactivation ??????