Im having a problem with my harddrive i have 2 installed when I go to my
computer it only shows the 40 gig hardrive, but when I go to the device
manager thing it shows both harddrives and I double click into the 20 gig one
that should also be in my computer and it says its ...

I have a dual boot system with Win 98 SE on Drive C (Fat 32), Win XP Pro SP2
on Drive D (NTFS). System worked well for months, but recently system froze
in XP.  I turned off computer.  On restart and ever since, no dual boot menu
screen appears. System immediately boots into Win ...

I get a message that the XP Home SP2 is newer version than my XP Pro upgrade
disk. And if I contintue to install it will create a new copy of XP on my
system.
I perfer to upgrade to XP Pro keeping my installed software settings.

Here is my scenario-
I have ghosted an old win98 machine HD (IDE) to a new machine (SATA)
and want to upgrade to winxp.  After ghosting the old hard-drive to
the new hard-drive, win98 will not see the SATA Controller.  No matter

For SATA Drives the following. Win XP Pro first screen asks me to type F6 to
install Raid or SCSI drives. Then I am to point to floppy that has the proper
drivers for my chipset so that SATA drive can be recognized by Win XP.
When I type F6, nothing happens, no prompt and the ...

When I type F6 to install Raid or SCSI drive, so that XP Pro will see my SATA
drive, nothing happens, the command is ignored and the install of the OS
stalls on first copy of first OS file.

i have a PIII w/ adaptec SCSI 160
i wish to upgrade my computer to P4 and use the old adaptec SCSI 160
do i need to reinstall the XP after the migration of new computer.
thanks.

Hi. I installed Windows xp Pro. on two drives. Made one the master, the other
the slave. I had trouble geting it to boot up, but eventually did. I was
doing a defrag. of the original drive, the system hung and now it will not
boot up anymore. Tried disconnecting devices, changed ...

We deploy Sp2 to our XP clients using GPO.
On few clients we have the following problem: at startup of the client the
installation of SP2 starts but stops after a few moments.
In the event viewer there is logged an error:

Recently upgraded to XP.  Just downloaded SP2.  My printer won't print
images.  Only text.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

After installing XP Pro SP2, whenever I go to Search my computer freezes.  It
must be turned off to regain control.  Any suggestions?

I AM TRYING TO REPAIR WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION BUT I CANNOT GET PAST ENTER
CORRECT PRODUCT ID. THE SETUP GETS THROUGH INSTALLING DEVICES AND THEN STOPS
ASKING FOR A VALID CD KEY. I GOT A NEW PRODUCT ID FROM MICROSOFT BUT I STILL
GET THE SAME  CD KEY NOT VALID MESSAGE.  MY COMPUTER ...

After installing additional RAM, during startup screen states "missing or
corrupt file fastfat.sys or pci.sys, use XP CD to restore file", I use XP CD
and it errors out saying cannot load ntkrnlmp.exe error code "7".
Any ideas?

I get the message below when I try to install XP SP2 (From SPSETUP.log) I
have turned off Virusscan, Spywarescann and have a spyware clean system.
Any Ideas?
1418.718: DoRegistryUpdates:SetupInstallFromInfSection Failed for

I am trying to upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP professional. I
am getting the follwoing error:-
The file 'Asms' on Windows XP Professional CD-ROM is needed. Type the
path where the file is located, and then click OK.